Date November 8th 2026
Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm
Location: Paul Dresher Studios - 2253 Poplar St, Oakland, CA 94607
Speaker: Dr. Lynne Morrow
This Spirituals Workshop will be melding African American history with group Singalongs of two songs. The focus of the history and the singing will be on Gullah Spirituals. This workshop is in support of the Salt & Spirit production co-created by acclaimed tenor Victor Ryan Robertson and Opera Parallèle Creative Director Brian Staufenbiel, rooted in a rare collection of nineteenth-century spirituals and reimagined through vibrant contemporary arrangements that blend classical, jazz, and traditional influences from Gullah Spirituals and the Gullah people.
There is no admission cost for this event.
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About Dr. Lynne Morrow:
Dr. Lynne Morrow is a Grammy-nominated choral conductor and music historian. Her Spirituals Workshops are the realization of a continuing desire to bring African American Spirituals to the world.
Dr. Morrow’s work with Spirituals began in 2006 with a theatrical historical concert with a narrator outlining the history between the songs. That narrator was her mother, Claressa Darden Morrow, now 96, a teacher and storyteller. Dr. Morrow’s great-great-grandmother was brought to the U.S. as a 5-year old enslaved child. She lived until 1939 and taught her descendants about where she was from – Guinea, West Africa. Dr. Morrow honors her great-great-grandmother and all her ancestors with her work bringing African American Spirituals to the community and to all Americans. She is an Emerita Professor at Sonoma State University.
