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SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK

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  • Genre: A'cappella / Progressive / Roots Music

    Location District of Columbia, Un

    Profile Views: 120324

    Last Login: 5/7/2013

    Member Since 5/28/2007

    Website www.sweethoneyintherock.org

    Record Label APPLESEED RECORDINGS

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    "RARE IS THE MUSICAL ensemble that can survive the departure of its founder and longtime leader, but Washington's Sweet Honey in the Rock seems to have weathered the 2004 retirement of Bernice Johnson Reagon in fine form. The group's first recording without Reagon, "Experience . . . 101," is a children's music album, but the vocal harmonies by the six women are just as intricate and precise as ever..."..- Geofrey Himes, Washington, Post Oct. 26, 2007 ...... SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK® Founded by Bernice Johnson Reagon, with Carol Maillard, Louise Robinson and Mie, in 1973 at the D.C. Black Repertory Theater Company, Sweet Honey In The Rock, the 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. Sweet Honey In The Rock has been a path, a way, a discipline, and a process, as its founder and mainstay Bernice Johnson Reagon wrote in the book We Who Believe in Freedom - Sweet Honey In The Rock Still On The Journey (1993), a chronicle of this extraordinary African-American female vocal group. Indeed, Sweet Honey has been a glorious, evolving process of growth and change throughout its existence. Now entering her fourth decade, the Grammy® Award-winning ensemble moves forward following Bernice Johnson Reagon's retirement in February 2004, continuing the legacy begun thirty-one years ago. 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 what we do to one another and to our fellow creatures on this planet.

  • Members

    Ysaye M. Barnwell Nitanju Bolade Casel Aisha Kahlil Carol Maillard Louise Robinson Shirley Childress Saxton (Sign Language Interpreter).. .. Sound Engineer - Art Steele.. Tour Manager - Dwana Makeba .. .. ....SWEET HONEY CONTACT INFORMATION .. .. Ivy Young, Administrative Director For Sweet Honey.. ..Click To E-Mail Ivy.... or call (202) 399-6604.. ----------.. Paul Bongiorno, Booking Agent, Opus3artists .. ..Click To E-Mail Paul.... or call (212) 584-7515...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ..Sweet Honey In the Rock performed live on Michele Martin's .."TELL ME MORE". .... ..Click here to view the interview and performance on NPR.ORG..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Join Sweet Honey in The Rock on:.... .... ...... .... .. .... .... .. .... .... .. .... .... .. .... .... ..

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    Calling on all fierce fans of Sweet Honey in the rock! We are planning and moving towards our 40th anniversary... http://t.co/NDMNz7ZTf6

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    RT IF YOU ARE A FIERCE SWEET HONEY FAN. WE KNOW Y'ALL R OUT HERE!! Booyah!!!

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    may the Good Lord give continued strength and comfort to the community of Moore OK.

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    Thank uou Baba Chuck. Thank you Tulani. Thank you SWEET HONEY. Onward and upward.

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    DANCE AFRICA opening ceremony and show kicked it today at Brooklyn Academy of Music. show packed to the rafters.... http://t.co/IUMiqQyrQX

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    THANKS FOR THE REQUEST.

    2 years ago
  • Mz Sexy

    LUV UR SOUND

    2 years ago
  • Orneal Murraine

    Chocolate City! I miss home.

    2 years ago
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    Thanks for stopping by and God Bless you all from artist Kevin Curtis Barr.

    2 years ago
  • Born to be Blessed!!!

    Music with a positive message.

    2 years ago
  • Tonya Johnson

    Thanks for the friend request!

    2 years ago
  • Christopher L Simmons

    Nice....

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  • Dwayne Wright

    rock on baby

    2 years ago
  • Veruca Jones

    Hey Sweet Honey In The Rock, I keep searching for you between the cushions. Your cleverness helps me breathe without the need of oxygen. Cities crumble, skies ignite spontaneously in your presence. Wood nymphs sprinkle your path with rose petals while you dance and prowl in the sequined moonlight with leftover cupcake sprinkles. The elves that play in the toasters wash their drum sticks in honey and sing strikingly colored anthems in perfect harmonious pleasure. Your layers of absinthe and torsion form concretions of hyper-alimentation. What wonderful vibrations you are capable of. Panoramic aromavision is the future. Please let me hear more of that wonderful sound. All my thoughts are lost to your graceful gaze? In your presence even my shadow acquires the sensation of touch. I relentlessly desire cotton candy lollipops. Your beauty is multiplexed in contemplation of your multidimensional effervescence. How can I help but use your eyes as a means for self-asphyxiation? I sense wild vapors of sweet champagne in your larynx.

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