Mid-Winter Singing & Folk Festival Concert with Reggie Harris
On Saturday night, now Michigan resident Reggie Harris will officially present a concert - which will include a lot of singing along. Reggie is a favorite with Singing Festival followers. This show is a chance to hear his new material as well as sing some songs with one of the folk music community's best song leaders. Uniquely committed to “music as a community building vehicle,” Reggie’s music shares insightful perspectives on issues of life, history, education and human rights. In the spirit of his mentors, Pete Seeger and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, (founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock), Reggie is a master songleader who loves to help people discover that they can make a difference at any age, wherever they may live.
Reggie Harris is a singer/songwriter, storyteller and educator, known worldwide for song leadership, activism and for his work as a community builder.
Awarded a Folk Alliance International Spirit of Folk Award, Harris is also a recipient of the W.E.B. DuBois Legacy Award from Great Barrington, MA (DuBois’s hometown), and leads of civil rights pilgrimages in the South with the Living Legacy Project.
Reggie’s work as an activist and community builder is also featured in the portrait and educational series “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” a project of activist/painter Rob Shetterly, and is featured as a subject in the film about the artist, Truth Tellers, by Dick Kane of Maine Masters.
With many noteworthy recordings to is credit, his two solo CDs Ready to Go and On Solid Ground have garnered airplay and praise in folk and acoustic music circles.
Most recently, Reggie’s exciting and inspirational memoir Searching for Solid Ground was published and released by Skinner House Books.
Reggie’s friendship with Pete and Toshi Seeger, and other historical elders, inspired him to embrace the belief that music is an essential ingredient in creating a world of hope and justice.
His work with the Living Legacy Project and the John F Kennedy Center’s Changing Education Through the Arts program, give powerful evidence that his life and career are committed to that mission of justice, education and freedom.
It was a joy and an honor to have Reggie among us for the event on 9/13! He is such an amazing role model, and of course was himself: charming, professional, and bearing witness to all who fight the good fight as he himself has done for so many years. Thanks so much! – Sarah Underhill, Robeson in Peekskill
“Reggie Harris is part of the solution. His marvelous music, his hard-earned wisdom, and his loving presence lift up any room he enters. Reggie reaches across all boundaries and makes strangers into friends.” – Rabbi Jonathan Kligler, Lev Shalem Inst., Woodstock, NY
“Thank you for your participation in last night’s “This Land is Our Land” concert. Your opening song could not have been more apropos. The Langston Hughes poem was so beautifully spoken. I could go on and on, as everything you played was a highlight! And how wonderful it was to hear more of you at the end of the show! I can only say wow and thanks!” -Karen Sauer, Musicians for the Greater Good
Reggie Harris is a singer/songwriter, storyteller and educator, known worldwide for song leadership, activism and for his work as a community builder.
Awarded a Folk Alliance International Spirit of Folk Award, Harris is also a recipient of the W.E.B. DuBois Legacy Award from Great Barrington, MA (DuBois’s hometown), and leads of civil rights pilgrimages in the South with the Living Legacy Project.
Reggie’s work as an activist and community builder is also featured in the portrait and educational series “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” a project of activist/painter Rob Shetterly, and is featured as a subject in the film about the artist, Truth Tellers, by Dick Kane of Maine Masters.
With many noteworthy recordings to is credit, his two solo CDs Ready to Go and On Solid Ground have garnered airplay and praise in folk and acoustic music circles.
Most recently, Reggie’s exciting and inspirational memoir Searching for Solid Ground was published and released by Skinner House Books.
Reggie’s friendship with Pete and Toshi Seeger, and other historical elders, inspired him to embrace the belief that music is an essential ingredient in creating a world of hope and justice.
His work with the Living Legacy Project and the John F Kennedy Center’s Changing Education Through the Arts program, give powerful evidence that his life and career are committed to that mission of justice, education and freedom.
It was a joy and an honor to have Reggie among us for the event on 9/13! He is such an amazing role model, and of course was himself: charming, professional, and bearing witness to all who fight the good fight as he himself has done for so many years. Thanks so much! – Sarah Underhill, Robeson in Peekskill
“Reggie Harris is part of the solution. His marvelous music, his hard-earned wisdom, and his loving presence lift up any room he enters. Reggie reaches across all boundaries and makes strangers into friends.” – Rabbi Jonathan Kligler, Lev Shalem Inst., Woodstock, NY
“Thank you for your participation in last night’s “This Land is Our Land” concert. Your opening song could not have been more apropos. The Langston Hughes poem was so beautifully spoken. I could go on and on, as everything you played was a highlight! And how wonderful it was to hear more of you at the end of the show! I can only say wow and thanks!” -Karen Sauer, Musicians for the Greater Good