Dionne Warwick, Esperanza Spalding and Danny Glover will be among the performers on hand Monday night at a gala concert honoring the restoration of the bell at the First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Va., founded in 1776 by slaves and one of the oldest black churches in America.
The bell, which became inoperable sometime around the 1950s, has been repaired by conservators from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.