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Sweet Honey Concerts Highlight For Immediate Release: 
Internationally renowned a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock® performs at Earlham on Friday, Oct. 17. RICHMOND, Ind. — Sweet Honey in the Rock® kicks off Earlham College's Homecoming and Reunion Weekend festivities with their signature beautifully layered harmonies during two evening concerts. Sweet Honey performs at 7 and 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17, in Carpenter Hall's Goddard Auditorium. Both performances are sign language interpreted. Tickets are available at Runyan Center and cost $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and students. Sweet Honey is an all-female a cappella vocal ensemble committed to creating music out of the rich textures of African American legacy and traditions, including blues, spirituals, gospel, reggae, African chants, hip hop, ancient lullabies and jazz improvisation. Sweet Honey hopes to open the minds and hearts of audiences by delivering positive messages via soulful harmonies and intricate rhythms. "This has been a very exciting and productive year for Sweet Honey in the Rock," says group member Dr. Ysaye M. Barnwell. "Our newest CD, Experience…101, was nominated for a Grammy in 2008 and has just received the 2008 National Parenting Publications Gold Award." The ensemble is busy rehearsing its newest collaboration, The Ailey Project, with the Alvin Ailey Dance Company and choreographer Hope Boykin. Sweet Honey helped create the story, lyrics and music for the project, which premieres in December in New York. "Ms. Boykin has created amazing choreography to the music and has included Sweet Honey as singers, story tellers and dancers," Barnwell says. Sweet Honey plans to release a CD of the music entitled Go In Grace after the premiere. Sweet Honey In the Rock was founded by Bernice Johnson Reagon in 1973 in Washington, D.C. — EC — Contact:
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