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The Christmas Spirituals Project Holiday Concert
December 21, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
AfroSouthern Education invites Friends of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting community to this year’s Christmas Spirituals Project Holiday Concert, Thursday, December 21 at 7PM, at Arch Street Meeting House.
The Christmas Spirituals Project is a free educational concert highlighting the Christmas songs, poetry, and traditional stories from the African American tradition dating from the late 1700s through the Twentieth Century. 2022 was the ten-year anniversary of the concert, which has been performed in Atlanta, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia.
About The Concert:
The 2023 Christmas Spirituals Project is an exploration of African American Folk Traditions from the late-Eighteenth through the mid-Twentieth Centuries. Presented this year in the historic, 200-year-old Arch Street Meeting House, the concert includes art songs, spirituals, gospels, stories, poetry, and biblical scripture rendered in the African American folk tradition. Drawing from archival documents such as the The (A.M.E.) Christian Recorder, and featuring works from Paul Lawrence Dunbar and others, The Christmas Spirituals Project takes listeners on a Nativity journey spanning multiple generations, with stops in the Gullah-Geechee coast of the southeast and in cities including Lexington, KY and Chicago. Developed under the auspices of the AfroSouthern Education Project, the Christmas Spirituals Project has been delighting audiences since 2012 and returns to Philadelphia for its third year! Conceived and Performed by Tara Lake, Scholar-Artist, Soprano and Storyteller. All are welcome to attend this no-cost concert, which is suitable for all ages.
Free Registration Is Required – Donations Gratefully Accepted Via Ticketing and On Site. Donations are not required.
