Greetings,
Friends of Negro Spirituals would like to
share some good news with you. The organization is calling all communities
together to celebration Juneteeth with it; please see the information below
announcing the event; we would welcome your sharing the news.
Many Thanks!!
Keeping the Bond
with Our Enslaved Ancestors and Their Song,
Sam
Edwards
Friends of Negro Spirituals
Presents
There's A Bright Side Some Where
A
Juneteeth Community Sing
Saturday, June 18, 2011, 3 PM to 5 PM
West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline Street, Oakland, CA
With
Bay Area's Wendell Brooks, Baritone, Song Leader, and Educator
Including a New Orleans Street Vendor's Cry, Memories of the "Yankee soldiers," and The Emancipation Proclamation
Youth under 13, free Youth: $10.00
Adults: $15.00 Advance
Adults: $20.00 at the Door
Send ticket requests to: Friends of Negro Spirituals, P.O. Box 71956, Oakland, CA 94612
The wheelchair accessible Juneteeth celebration will be an entertaining, uplifting experience and a gathering place for people from across the Greater Bay Area, all coming together as a community to sing selected Spirituals led by Books, to hear a long bygone oral tradition, a musical cry of a New Orleans Street vendor; memories of a slave woman who saw the Yankees soldiers close up; and the Emancipation Proclamation.
For more information, call Sam Edwards at 510 869 4359 or e-mail us at fns3@juno.com
A 501 (c) (3) organization