Join Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez, along with the singular three-part harmonies of the Sin Sisters and acoustic guitar master Frank Viele, for “Sunday School”— and get ready to believe! This Roots-Gospel Sunday morning performance is a long running crowd favorite of Rhythm & Roots that promises to have you shouting “Hallelujah!”

Christine Ohlman has belonged to rock n’ roll from just about the time she could walk and talk. She is the longtime, current vocalist with NBC’s Saturday Night Live Band, whose six CDs with Rebel Montez (the most recent landed on several end-of-year national top ten lists) will be joined in 2026 by “The Grown Up Thing”.  Deeply embedded in the scenes of New Orleans, Muscle Shoals and Nashville (all headlining stopovers in early 2026), Ohlman brings a music historian’s eye to “Sunday School” along with years of experience partnering with Dion (2024’s chart-topping “Girl Friends”), Charlie Musselwhite (the Grammy-nominated “One Night in America”), NRBQ’s Big Al Anderson (“Pawn Shop Guitars”), Ian Hunter (“When I’m President”)  and recent tribute LPs to both Wilson Pickett and Matt “Guitar” Murphy.  She has produced numerous all-star tributes during Muscle Shoals’ WC Handy Festival, including “Walking in Memphis,” which united Musselwhite with Travis Wammack and Jerry Phillips, the current scion of the Sun Records founding family.   Ohlman tours relentlessly with Rebel Montez, torching clubs up and down the Eastern Seaboard. She will be joined onstage by Lorne Entress (drums-Mary Chapin Carpenter, Big Al Anderson, Lori McKenna, Ronnie Earl); Boston bass king Wolf Ginandes (Dennis Brennan, The Mohegan Sun AllStars); and South Carolina guitar master Chris Bickley, who calls the musical family that surrounded blues icon Johnny Winter his true home.  With her trademark mile-high platinum beehive hairdo and enviable collection of sequins and rhinestones, Ohlman looks like a lady to be reckoned with, and she opens her mouth to sing, the truth comes out. 

Sin Sisters Kathy Kessler, Janice Ingarra and Patti Rahl were inducted into the New England Music Hall of Fame in 2023. Long known as backup singers for Christine Ohlman and her band, the Sisters are celebrated for their three-part harmonies and love of singing—and each other—that is evident at every performance.

Joining on acoustic guitar is Frank Viele, recipient of the 2025 Album of The Year from the New England Music Awards, where he’d previously racked up accolades including Male Performer and Songwriter of the Year.  With several albums under his belt and a growing reputation as one of the most exciting voices in Americana, Viele continues to push the boundaries of what it means to be a modern singer-songwriter. He brings to every stage a passion and intensity that are infectious.