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Gullah Cultural Series: Gullah Me, Gullah You – The Gullah Geechee Culture and Its Worldwide Impact

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Event details

  • Tuesday | October 8, 2024
  • 6:30 PM
  • SoundWaves at Coligny, 7 Lagoon Road, Suite 100, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
  • (843) 842-2055

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Gullah Geechee Cultural Series: Gullah Me, Gullah You

Gullah Me, Gullah You Gullah Cultural Series is our community’s exciting music event series celebrating all things Gullah. Mostly of music, but also storytelling, history, food, and culture; each performance, modeled in the spirit of a television talk-show setting but reversed as a musical show-talk event, heralds local Gullah citizens for their contributions to our community and celebrates Gullah Geechee guest artists from the entire Gullah Geechee Corridor. Held at SoundWaves, in Gullah churches, and Hilton Head schools, Gullah Me, Gullah You introduces us to many touching and beautiful stories as well as challenges of native Islander life here on Hilton Head Island and throughout the Gullah Geechee corridor. In support of Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park, Native Island Business and Community Affairs Association and the Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Island, this series is sure to entertain and enlighten all! Bonus: Gullah cuisine dinner option available before the show.  Presented by The Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Island, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, and Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park, and Native Island Business and Community Affairs Association

Tuesday, October 8th at SoundWaves
(Doors open at 6:00 p.m.; 6:30pm dinner; 7:30pm concert)

The Gullah Geechee Culture and Its Worldwide Impact

Globetrotting two-time Grammy winning musical guest, Ranky Tanky trumpeter Charlton Singleton helps open the new GGCS season with important perspectives on the worldwide impact of the Gullah Geechee culture.
Gullah Cultural Series artistic advisor, Lavon Stevens, gets the GGCS house band back together with a new spin on the series, serving this time also as master of ceremonies interviewing distinguished luminaries of our local Gullah Geechee community.
Lavon Stevens, artistic advisor
Charlton Singleton, trumpeter, Ranky Tanky

The Lavon Stevens Band:
Lavon Stevens, piano
Clarence Williams, bass
Jimmy Charles, drums

 
Chef Bridgette Frazier of Chef B’s Eatz Food Truck and Catering and founder of the Bluffton Gullah Cultural Heritage Center has prepared an authentic menu including meal options of BBQ pork tenderloin, whipped garlic mashed potatoes, collards, and cornbread (GF); vegetable gumbo, red rice, collards, and cornbread (V); and hot honey chicken, red rice, collards, and cornbread.
 

Patrons who order the dinner/concert package will receive one complimentary drink with their purchase.

Seating is cabaret-style at tables of 4.
Reserved dinner/concert seats are $79 per person.
Dinner/concert general seating is $69 per person.
General seating for concert-only tickets is $49 per person.

Elevate your experience with a hi-top table for two with bar stool seating: $195 per couple, including a bottle of wine!
(only 6 hi-tops available)
3% credit card fee

Doors and bar open at 6:00 pm with dinner service at 6:30 pm.
The concert portion of the evening begins at 7:30 pm.
Concert-only ticket purchasers will be admitted beginning at 7:15 pm.

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Special thanks to our Gullah Geechee Cultural Series Series Supporters

The Beaufort Fund

Folk Life Program

Thanks to our Gullah Cultural Series Partners

Transportation partner ­– Gullah Heritage Trail Tours 

Sponsored by Community Foundation of the Lowcountry