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DESCRIPTION:A Benefit Concert in Honor of the Highlander Center in 
 Tennessee\n\nSaturday, August 11: The Bay Area Rockin' Solidarity Labor 
 Chorus and the Vukani Mawethu Chorus present songs of conscience and 
 celebration. Proceeds will help send a singing contingent from both 
 choruses to Tennessee's Highlander Center this Labor Day Weekend to help 
 commemorate Highlander's 75 years of organizing.\n\nThe Highlander 
 Education Center, based in rural Tennessee, has a long history of teaching 
 and struggle, from training CIO organizers in the 1930s to defending 
 immigrant rights today.  Rosa Parks attended Highlander before she sat down 
 on the bus. For decades, it was one of the few places in the South where 
 white and black could work and socialize as equals.  \n\nHighlander has 
 been a haven not only for movement organizers and leaders (including Dr 
 Martin Luther King) but also for musicians and other cultural workers; its 
 history echoes with their songs and stories. Pete Seeger and Hazel Dickens 
 were frequent visitors as teachers and performers. The Center is the 
 birthplace of the Civil Rights anthem, "We Shall Not Be Moved."\n\nOver the 
 last year and a half, the Rockin' Solidarity Labor Chorus and Vukani 
 Mawethu have developed a program celebrating, in song and story, the untold 
 history of Highlander. Performances of this program have been roundly 
 acclaimed. \n\nNow, the Highlander Center has invited the choruses to come 
 perform at its 75th anniversary celebration on the Labor Day weekend in 
 Knoxville, Tennessee. But the choruses need to raise money for the trip. 
 The August 11 concert will raise funds for that purpose.\n\nVukani Mawethu 
 was founded in the early 1980s by exiled anti-Apartheid activist James 
 Madhlope Phillips to sing South African freedom songs. Over the years, it 
 has broadened its repertoire to include anthems of the US Civil Rights 
 movement and newly composed songs of political consciousness. Vukani 
 Mawethu supports AIDS clinics and other projects in South Africa.\n 
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SUMMARY:Celebrating 75 Years of The Highlander Center: A Benefit Concert
LOCATION:Kehila Synagogue\n1300 Grand Avenue\nPiedmont, CA 94610\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/28/18422120.php
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