Stay Prayed Up is now available on demand and for purchase from iTunes and. The New York Times gave the documentary a glowing review.
At the Heartland International Film Festival in Indianapolis, it won the Jimmy Stewart Legacy Award. It premiered at the world-famous Telluride Film Festival and went on to appear in several other film festivals.
Over time, the live recording, Stayed Prayed Up, was supplemented by a documentary on Mother Perry and the Branchettes called Stay Prayed Up (Greenwich Entertainment). Her singing, indeed, her presence, was filled with what the saints call “the anointing.” For them, it hasn’t.įront and center of it all was diminutive Mother Lena Mae Perry, octogenarian, lead singer, and charter member of the area’s beloved Branchettes gospel singers. The Branchettes sang the old gospel catalogue as if it never went out of style. Traditional songs and singing filled the air, setting the live audience’s feet a-tapping and hands a-clapping. It wasn’t a live recording-it was church. There, in the postcard-pretty church nestled in Newton Grove, North Carolina, the Branchettes, arguably one of the best gospel groups you’ve never heard of, were in the midst of a live recording session. One reasonably warm Saturday in April, 2019, the Long Branch Disciples of Christ Church was especially high in the spirit. Lena Mae Perry (front), Phil Cook (back row, far right)
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