Honoring the Spirituals and Ring Shout

Friends of Negro Spirituals celebrates The Second Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day Honoring the Spirituals, their Keepers, and the Ring Shout- an African sacred dance of Black Slaves.

(PRWEB) June 26, 2005 -- Friends of Negro Spirituals celebrates The Second Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day Honoring the Spirituals, their Keepers, and the Ring Shout- an African sacred dance of Black Slaves on Sunday, June 26, 2005 from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM.

West Oakland Senior Center
1724 Adeline St.
Oakland, CA.
For directions,go to www.mapquest.com

The Bay Area Negro Spirituals Heritage Day celebration will feature an African drum ceremony, honoring unknown creators of the Spirituals and Spirituals preservers who are now with the ancestors.

Rare video footage of Georgia's Macintosh County Shouters performing the ancestral Ring Shout will be shown.

The untraditional, exciting program will also honor several dedicated Keepers of the Spirituals heritage.

For the celebration, the well known Terrace Kelly, Artistic Director of The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir; William Bill" Bell, Director of The East Bay Community Choir; Dr. Gale Bell, Spirituals Educator; Dr. Helen Dilworth, Soprano, soloist, voice coach, and Professor of Music at the Community College of San Francisco, and Ms. Martha Hardy-Lee, founder and sponsor of the African-American Spirituals Concert in Vallejo, CA are the honorees.

Childrens activity table available at Celebration.

Admission free; your tax-deductible donations are welcomed for ongoing programming.

For more information, call Sam Edwards at (415) 563-4316 or E-mail address: sedwards@stanford.edu

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