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Sweet Honey online at:
www.sweethoney.com
The 2008-2009 season finds Sweet Honey
celebrating her 35th birthday. What
a year it has been and what a year it
will be!
Sweet Honey’s latest release,
Experience…101 was a 2008 Grammy
Award nominee. After attending the awards
ceremony in Los Angeles, and walking
the “red carpet”, the group
summed up the experience in one word:
amazing. The excitement continued as
Sweet Honey was asked to compose new
material in celebration of the Alvin
Ailey Dance Theater’s 50th anniversary.
Together these two artistic treasures
of the African American experience are
performing this once-in-a-lifetime collaboration
throughout the United States.
Sweet Honey In The Rock is Ysaye Maria
Barnwell, Nitanju Bolade Casel, Aisha
Kahlil, Carol Maillard, Louise Robinson,
and Shirley Childress Saxton.
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Classics Series presents: |
Sweet Honey in the Rock
December 3, 2009
8:00pm
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PRICES: |
Reserved
Seating:
ABC $29.50 / D $26.50
Gold Circle $36.50
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Founded by Bernice Johnson
Reagon in 1973 at the D.C. Black Repertory
Theater Company, Sweet Honey In The Rock,
internationally renowned a cappella ensemble,
has been a vital and innovative presence in
the music culture of Washington, D.C., and
in communities of conscience around the world.
From Psalm 81:16 comes the promise to a people
of being fed by honey out of the rock. Honey
– an ancient substance, sweet and nurturing.
Rock – an elemental strength, enduring
the winds of time. The metaphor of sweet honey
in the rock captures completely these African
American women whose repertoire is steeped
in the sacred music of the Black church, the
clarion calls of the civil rights movement,
and songs of the struggle for justice everywhere.
Rooted in a deeply held commitment to create
music out of the rich textures of African
American legacy and traditions, Sweet Honey
In The Rock possesses a stunning vocal prowess
that captures the complex sounds of
Blues, spirituals, traditional gospel hymns,
rap, reggae, African chants, Hip Hop, ancient
lullabies, and jazz improvisation. Sweet Honey’s
collective voice, occasionally accompanied
by hand percussion instruments, produces a
sound filled with soulful harmonies and intricate
rhythms.
In the best and in the hardest of times, Sweet
Honey In The Rock has come in song to communities
across the U.S., and around the world raising
her voice in hope, love, justice, peace, and
resistance. Sweet Honey invites her audiences
to open their minds and hearts and think about
who we are and how we treat each other, our
fellow creatures who share this planet, and
of course, the planet itself.
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