As soon as their concert ended at the Music Hall on Monday night, the Soweto Gospel Choir and their audience brought music and light to the African Burying Ground on Chestnut Street.

More than 200 people and the South African group participated in a candlelight vigil that began in front of the Music Hall on the upper end of Chestnut Street and proceeded to the lower half of the street. The area where more than 200 African slaves were buried was cordoned off by Portsmouth Police and the city Public Works Department.

For nearly 30 minutes, those who gathered to remember those who were laid to rest in unmarked graves below the city street more than 200 years ago reveled in the melodic sounds of the Soweto Gospel Choir and observed solemn moments of prayer and reflection. Currently, funds continue to be raised to create a $1.2 million African Burying Ground Memorial Park.

What follows is a video of Monday night's candlelight vigil.