Reggie Harris is the featured speaker at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville on Sunday, February 2 at 10:30 service. He then will be performing a concert at 2:00pm in the Sanctuary. Come and enjoy this extraordinary singer, songwriter, and storyteller!! A suggested donation is $20
Reggie Harris is an innovative guitarist, a fearlessly creative vocalist, and an engaging storyteller whose performances are infused with joy. It’s clear to all that he deeply loves singing and that it is more than his work. But that’s not all.
Uniquely committed to “music as a community building vehicle,” Reggie’s music shares insightful perspectives on issues of life, history, education and human rights. Reggie is a master songleader who loves to help people discover that they can make a difference at any age, wherever they may live.
He was recently featured in The New York Times to discuss his familial connection as the descendant of slavery as a great-great-great grandson of confederate General Williams Carter Wickham and his slave Bibhanna Hewlett with his white cousins.
“FAMILY REVEALED”
A Story of History and Hope
America is often said to be a melting pot. But our national history actually more
resembles a tapestry quilt with our various cultures and ethnic backgrounds mixed and mingled into a multicolored field of life experiences.
Our history, too often unknown, ignored, or denied, is filled with stories of pain,
oppression and struggle, with the possibility of progress sidetracked by ignorance, lies and privilege. But through the lens of awareness and uncovered narratives we can, by acknowledging what is true, begin to develop a new sense of relationship that offers new context and solutions to tackle present day issues of race, division and inclusion.
We can start to realize the dream that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called us to recognize and that the poet Maya Angelou described in her poem “On the Pulse of Mornings.” It is through this lens that Musician / Storyteller Reggie Harris, a descendant of a slave, Bibhanna, and her master, General Williams Carter Wickham, provides a unique, entertaining and inspiring look at WHAT WE CAN BE when we face the truth with open hearts and minds. It’s an engaging American story that started on a plantation in Ashland, VA … Hickory Hill.
Join Reggie Harris on this fascinating journey as he uses his extraordinary gifts to bring his blossoming relationship with his White cousins to life… descendants of the same ancestor… one family… in the context of a nation on the brink of change. It’s a timely and poignant modern day story of truth, reconnection and hope.
For any additional info contact 828-606-9191.