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Sweet Honey In The Rock at Paramount Theatre
Courtesy of Miles High Productions | Posted on January 12, 2016
Where
Paramount Theatre
139 S Center St
Goldsboro, NC
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When
Fri, May 13, 2016
7:30 pm
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Musicians
Sweet Honey In The Rock
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Challenge and change are the themes underlying the 40-plus-year career of the revered female African-American a cappella ensemble, SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK®. In the course of creating its adventurous and diverse mixture of blues, African, jazz, gospel and R&B music, with excursions into symphonic and dance theater, 23 vocalists have passed through the group. Sweet Honey formed as a quartet in 1973 at a workshop at the D.C. Black Repertory Theater Company in Washington.
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Carol Maillard, Louise Robinson, and Mie drew their name from the first song they learned, "Sweet Honey in the Rock," based on a Biblical psalm...