The McKissick Museum will present Shared Traditions: Sacred Music in the South on February 26-27 in Columbia, SC.
The conference will begin on Friday, February 26, 2016 at 3:30 at McKissick Museum located on the campus of the University of South Carolina. There is will be an artist meet and greet with Anita Singleton-Prather, a curator-led tour of Heard at Every Turn: Traditional Music in South Carolina and The African-American Spiritual Tradition in the Sea Islands.
Starting at 9am on Saturday, February 27th, Brookland Baptist Church in West Columbia will hold a panel session for Vocal Godliness: Gospel in Black and White. It will be followed with a keynote address by ethnomusicologist Dr. Cynthia Schmidt, The Legacy of Song: Gullah Tradition and the TransAtlantic Dialogue and will include a film screening of The Language You Cry In.
To find out more information about this exciting presentation please visit http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/mckissickmuseum/shared-traditions-sacred-music-south.
Gullah Gone 
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