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Savannah Music Festival March 26, 2011
Savannah Music Festival-March 26, 2011
The Savannah Music Festival was a sold out event! Festival organizers had to turn away dozens of people at the door because the venue was filled to the gills. The audience didn't want the program to end and the McIntosh County Shouters truly enjoyed performing at the event both on Friday (for 1,100 students) and Saturday for the public. This project was supported by the Georgia Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly as well as the Savannah Music Festival.
34th Annual Georgia Sea Islands Geechee Gullah Festival
Please join us!
The Sea Island Singers will be performing at 2pm and the McIntosh County Shouters will be performing at 5pm on Saturday, June 18. The Sea Island Singers will be performing again on Sunday, June 19., Both are MUST-SEE groups!
Savannah and St. Simons Island performances
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6pm
Second African Baptist Church
123 Houston Street
Savannah, GA 31401
Please come early as seating is limited and we have been told a lot of people anticipate coming. Books and CDs will be sold following the performance. This program is being generously sponsored by Imperial Sugar. Thank you!
Saturday, June 18, 2011 5pm
34th Annual Geechee Gullah Festival
To be held at "Epworth-by-the-Sea" in Gasgoigne Bluff on Saint Simons Island, GA
Directions: Follow the causeway to Saint Simons Island and stay on the inside lane. Veer left just after arriving on the Island and proceed straight through the light. Epworth-by-the-Sea will be the first left after the stoplight. Follow signage to the outdoor festival.
We will be giving our program at 5pm on Saturday, June 18 only. CDs and books will be on sale following the performance.
This 2-day annual festival takes place on June 18-19, 2011 and celebrates Gullah Geechee culture and heritage on the Georgia coast. There will be storytelling, entertainment, food, and church services.
Entertainment begins at 2pm on both days. On Sunday, there will be a church service at 12 noon followed by a traditional baptism in the river. Gullah Geechee were baptised for generations on St. Simons Island.
Please come to the annual Georgia-St. Simons Island Geechee Gullah Heritage Festival and learn about the history of the coastal Georgia Geechee. This 2-day festival (june 18-19) will highlight net making demonstrations, basket weaving demonstrations, crochet and quiltmaking demonstrations in addition to gospel and spiritual performances.
The Sea island Singers will be performing both days and will be singing slave songs, demonstrating the hambone, slave games, beating the rice, and jumping the broom ceremony. Other groups will be performing also.
New performance added for Sept 10
We are available for private performances as well as for school visits. We just added a public performance for September 10. Please come!
5pm
September 10, 2011
First African Baptist Church
23 Montgomery Street
Savannah, GA
Please contact us if you wish for us to visit your school or private event.
June 15, 2011--Savannah
We will be giving a program in Savannah on June 15, 2011. This event will be free and open to the public. Try to come early to ensure a seat.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6pm
Second African Baptist Church
123 Houston Street
Savannah, GA 31401
Please come!
Shrine Fest Savannah!
Come see us perform at the Shrine Fest on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 4pm. We will be in Memorial Stadium in Savannah. We're looking forward to seeing you!
Someone added our photo to a blog...
musicaafroamericana.wordpress.com
This blog included the McIntosh County Shouters in it which is interesting. The photo they used in this blog is below.
Confusion re: Shouters Groups
Over the years, we have had to respond to various questions about which group is US (THE MCINTOSH COUNTY SHOUTERS) and which is the group that formed 15 years after we began performing professionally. Another group has purposely tried to confuse people into thinking they are us. We want to clear the air on this issue: We are--and have ALWAYS been--known as the McIntosh County Shouters. WE have been performing the ring shout all our lives but we formed a professional group in 1980 when we were requested to travel around the United States to educate people about the ring shout.
Another group formed in the mid-1990s and essentially copied our entire program, taking the songs of our ancestors and trying to sing them...trying to perform the ring shout, etc. That other group has changed names several times over the years. Currently, they are the "Geechee Gullah Shouters of McIntosh County." While they do live in McIntosh County, they are NOT ....THE MCINTOSH COUNTY SHOUTERS. When people do web searches, the results are confusing since the other group has incorporated all the words in our name into theirs. It has come to a point where we simply have to address this situation directly.
Our group is known by internationally acclaimed by renowned ethnomusicologists, folklorists, linguists, professors, and humanities professionals. Those educated in the ring shout understand that we are the authentic group. We have been invited to many venues and platforms over the years. Following our performances, people may end up contacting the other group and think that they are getting our group for the next performance. Inevitably, audiences are disappointed because they thought they were going to see/hear us.
1984 Recorded "The McIntosh County Shouters: Slave Shout Songs from the coast of Georgia"
1993 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows
2008 Named Master Artists by the National Endowment for the Arts in New York City
2008 Founding Partners/Producers of Distinction--Georgia Made Georgia Grown
2010 Georgia Governor's Award in the Humanities Award recipients
2010 Performed at the Library of Congress and the J.F. Kennedy Center in December 2010
2011 American Legacy Magazine's First American Heritage Award recipients
Please do NOT confuse the two groups. WE are THE MCINTOSH COUNTY SHOUTERS.
Union Baptist Church
Our trip to Alabama in February was wonderful! Pastor Stewart had seen us years ago and invited us to his church for Black History Month. He also invited a 108 year old Bishop Otis Clark who gave a great sermon. We had such a great time there and would like to thank Pastor Stewart for his hopsitality! We are looking forward to next year!
