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'Sweet Honey in the Rock’ addresses women’s dilemna
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Among the guests: back row, Eva Jackson, Lonnell and Rose Wilson, Barbara
Patterson, Jimmy Nichelson and guest, and Paulette Jackson.
Center row: Melvin Nelson, Charlesetta Rutherford, Charles Srarbough, Host
and Hostess Ariane and Ray Robinson.
Front row: Allen and Barbara Jones, Charles Patterson, Eva and Jack Jackson.
Portlanders will have a rare opportu
nity to experience Sweet Honey when
they perform “Black History Through
Music," Friday. June 23rd, 8:00 p.m. at
Black History Through Music
Sweet Honey in the Rock
New Hope Baptist Choir
Friday, June 23,8 p.m.
Jefferson High School, 5210 N- Kerby
$.50 $4.50 $5.50
Tickets available at:
A Woman's Place Bookstore (1300 SW Washington)
Free Child care
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Barbara and Allen Jones fright | ar» joined at the wedding reception by Paul
There is a constantly recurring ques
tion in the lives of many Black women
today: the question of how to remain in
the flow of Black cultural tradition yet
develop to one's fullest potential. Al
though some concept of tradition is
inherent in the way they conduct their
daily lives, many Black women are
finding it necessary to re-examine their
tradition in seeking to express them
selves and their experience. The music of
"Sweet Honey in the Rock” offers the
beginning chords of answers to this
question.
“Sweet Honey in the Rock" is a group
of Black women who combine their
talents as singers, songwriters, and col
lectors to make a dynamic musical state
ment on the Black American experience.
Their repertoire runs an exciting span
from African chants to children's game
songs and prison songs of the rural south,
through gospel and blues, to Black
women love songs and socio-political
statements of today.
Each of the four voices that comprise
this unique musical ensemble is a finely
tuned instrument with its own texture
and range. The distinctive texture and
intensity of each voice allows the mem
bers to carry out solo responsibility;
when joined in a group statement, the
result is unique powerful harmonic lines
that make for refreshing, exciting Black
music.
The group was formed in 1974 by
Bernice Reagon, a folklorist and cultural
historian for the Smithsonian Institute,
evolving out of her work with the
Washington, D.C. Black Repertory Com
pany. The name “Sweet Honey in the
Rock” is a traditional gospel song. While
there is no actual biblical reference to
“sweet honey in the rock," there is a
parable of a land where rocks, when
cracked, oozed honey. For Bernice Rea-
gon that parable symbolizes Black women
in America. “To survive in this culture
Black women must become like rocks. We
are warm, but that warmth is revealed
only to those who really understand the
history of Black people’s survival,”
The four women that make up “Sweet
Honey," Bernice Reagon, leader, Evelyn
Harris, Patricia Johnson, and Yasmeen
Williams combine their diverse musical
experiences to sing lyrically simple, poe
tic and profound songs about what is
happening to and around them.
All
together, it makes a whole.
Their
political statements stand and are equal
to their songs about being lovers,
mothers, and their traditional Black
African and Black American material.
They take all of their experience and
bring it in music to the community,
spreading and sharing the voice of the
Black experience. Sweet Honey’s sound
in the voice. Their concept stresses the
use of the voice as rhythm and instrumen
tation. Their acapella singing is soulful,
forceful, delicate and for real! In present
ing their music, they cover a large piece
of the total spectrum of Black song, while
relating to and singing about our lives.
They sing situations - being wronged,
being poor, being denied, crying, moan
ing, preaching and rejoicing - but always
leaving you with a feeling of goodness
and strength.
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