Reggie Harris, Peace Education Center’s Alternative Holiday Sale
Co-Production with Peace Education Center's Annual Alternative Holiday Sale. A veteran song leader at the Ten Pound Fiddle's annual Mid-Winter Singing Festival, Reggie Harris has devoted his life to teaching, singing and sharing the songs of freedom and acceptance. HIs solo concerts are filled with haunting melodies, poignant stories, and familiar songs where everyone can join in. "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. Give yourself and your community the gift of a transformative visit with Reggie Harris. ,Rabbi Jonathan Kligler, Teacher, Leader, Musician, Lev Shalem Institute, Woodstock, NY
Singer-songwriter, storyteller and a world-renowned song-leader Reggie Harris is a passionate, engaging inspirational entertainer, recognized for bringing new energy to the role of music in the discourse for inclusion and the struggle for human rights.
As a songwriter of great depth, Reggie writes and lives with a personal sense of mission that merges a world-wise point of view with a singularly positive stance affirming life, joy and the existence of hope.
Using the lessons of history as a base, Reggie, an expert on the music of the Underground Railroad and the Modern Civil Rights Movement, is totally at home on stage or in the classroom leading concerts and seminars.
A 2021 winner of both the Folk Alliance International Spirit of Folk Award and the W.E.B. Du Bois Legacy Award, Reggie displayed his extraordinary gifts as a charismatic community builder when featured on CNN’s “Silence is Not An Option” series with Don Lemon.” Interviewed alongside his white cousins in a discussion about their shared familial connection to confederate General Williams Carter Wickham. (Reggie’s Great, great, great grandmother bore 6 children in that unequal union) by acknowledging the need to redefine past narratives into forward focused actions.
Reggie served for over 30 years as a teaching artist in the John F. Kennedy Center’s Changing Education Through the Arts program (CETA) and as a fellow in the prestigious Council of Independent College lecture program for over 15 years. He is also Co-President and Director of Music Education for the Living Legacy Project, an advocacy org that sponsors Civil Rights pilgrimages and education seminars throughout the South and online.
Reggie’s latest chart-topping releases, 2018’s Ready to Go and 2021’s “On Solid Ground” were both critically acclaimed and ranked in the top 5 on the Folk DJ playlists.
Reggie’s 2024 memoir Searching for Solid Ground is introducing this groundbreaking artist to new audiences worldwide.
Website: http://reggieharrismusic.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdUWomdUKTS__23I3i2Aztw
On X: @Regmusicman and @KimReggieHarris
Instagram: reggieharrismuse42
Better Angels
High Over the Hudson
Singer-songwriter, storyteller and a world-renowned song-leader Reggie Harris is a passionate, engaging inspirational entertainer, recognized for bringing new energy to the role of music in the discourse for inclusion and the struggle for human rights.
As a songwriter of great depth, Reggie writes and lives with a personal sense of mission that merges a world-wise point of view with a singularly positive stance affirming life, joy and the existence of hope.
Using the lessons of history as a base, Reggie, an expert on the music of the Underground Railroad and the Modern Civil Rights Movement, is totally at home on stage or in the classroom leading concerts and seminars.
A 2021 winner of both the Folk Alliance International Spirit of Folk Award and the W.E.B. Du Bois Legacy Award, Reggie displayed his extraordinary gifts as a charismatic community builder when featured on CNN’s “Silence is Not An Option” series with Don Lemon.” Interviewed alongside his white cousins in a discussion about their shared familial connection to confederate General Williams Carter Wickham. (Reggie’s Great, great, great grandmother bore 6 children in that unequal union) by acknowledging the need to redefine past narratives into forward focused actions.
Reggie served for over 30 years as a teaching artist in the John F. Kennedy Center’s Changing Education Through the Arts program (CETA) and as a fellow in the prestigious Council of Independent College lecture program for over 15 years. He is also Co-President and Director of Music Education for the Living Legacy Project, an advocacy org that sponsors Civil Rights pilgrimages and education seminars throughout the South and online.
Reggie’s latest chart-topping releases, 2018’s Ready to Go and 2021’s “On Solid Ground” were both critically acclaimed and ranked in the top 5 on the Folk DJ playlists.
Reggie’s 2024 memoir Searching for Solid Ground is introducing this groundbreaking artist to new audiences worldwide.
Website: http://reggieharrismusic.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdUWomdUKTS__23I3i2Aztw
On X: @Regmusicman and @KimReggieHarris
Instagram: reggieharrismuse42
Better Angels
High Over the Hudson