The Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers, a travelling company of 12 to 15, a resident group of 29, have garnered international acclaim and focused worldwide attention on the vast body of folk music termed "African-American." Thirty-six years ago (1968) the Singers undertook their first European tour. Today, after 18 sold-out European tours, 12 tours of the United States and Canada, tours of the Middle and Far East, Africa and South America, they are among the most honoured singing ensembles in the world

Founder-Director Albert McNeil is well-known to the national choral community, having been honoured on four occasions with "Command Performances" before the prestigious American Choral Directors Association in 1981 in New Orleans, in 1985 at their Salt Lake City Convention, at their 1997 convention in San Diego, California, and most recently in February, 2000, at Los Angeles during the ACDA (American Directors Coral Association) Western Division Convention held on the campus of Loyola-Marymount University.
Early in 1998, the Singers performed in concert version excerpts from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with the Honolulu Symphony, returning to Honolulu after an exciting tour of the Big Island of Hawaii, and Kauai, to a sold-out audience in the recently renovated Hawaii Theatre. During their winter tour, they were invited to record a program for the award-winning radio program "Saint Paul Sunday Morning" aired via National Public Radio and heard in virtually every state in the country. The program generated hundreds of letters from across the country and Canada.

In January, 1999, the Singers appeared in Carnegie Hall for Mid-America Productions where they sang works by Nunes-Garcia and Lawrence Farrow. They returned in the Spring of 1999 to Argentina and Uruguay for a series of concerts. The season 1999 concluded with their fourth tour of Japan and finally Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). In the Spring of 2000, they completed yet another tour in Spain with a major concert in the National Recital Hall, Madrid. In July, 2000, they gave a major performance in the John Anson Ford Theatre, Los Angeles, and were invited again to represent North America in Taipei, Taiwan, at the International Choral Festival. They performed for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Montgomery County Community College in February, 2001. The 2000-2001 season concluded with performances in St. John's Cathedral in Denver, Colorado, Bethel College in Newton, Kansas, and concert performances of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with the Pasadena "Pops" Orchestra, Pasadena, California.

The 2001-2002 season opened with a tour of Brazil in November, 2001, with major performances in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, and Rio. In January 2002, the Singers began an East Coast Tour commencing in Philadelphia and ending in Atlanta's Spivey Hall.In October, the Singers returned to Japan for their fifth tour of the land of the rising sun. A return to Spain in November 2002, closed the season with return performances in The National Recital Hall, Madrid, Barcelona's Palau de Música, and a debut performance in Las Palmas' magnificent concert hall.
The American Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, supported McNeil and his Jubilee Singers as participants in an International Choral Festival held there during the Memorial Day weekend, May 27 through 31, 2004.

The Jubilee Singers will leave on their 14th tour of Spain on November 28, 2004. On December 19th, 2004 the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers will perform at Davies Symphony Hall as a part of the San Francisco Symphony's holiday concert series.