Mid Shore Mediation in Easton will host a free concert entitled “Community In Harmony” on Sunday, January 15 at 4 p.m. at Trinity Cathedral in Easton. Mid Shore Community Mediation Center is a community resource for supporting productive dialog of all kinds. This concert seeks to bring the community together to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King’s message of peace. The movements for justice have produced some of our most inspiring songs and stories. The gift of peace to your fellow community members is a service with amazing ripple effects.
The concert will feature Sparky and Rhonda Rucker (sparkyandrhonda.com). Sparky and Rhonda Rucker perform throughout the U.S. as well as overseas, singing songs and telling stories from the American folk tradition. Sparky Rucker has been performing over forty years and is internationally recognized as a leading folklorist, musician, historian, storyteller, and author. He accompanies himself with fingerstyle picking and bottleneck blues guitar, banjo, and spoons. Rhonda Rucker is a musician, children’s author, storyteller, and songwriter. Her blues-style harmonica, piano, old-time banjo, and bones add musical versatility to their performances. Over forty years of performing, Sparky and Rhonda have performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival as well as NPR’s On Point, Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, and Morning Edition.
Members of the local community will also participate, including members of the Tri-Life Christian Center Praise Team, and the Trinity Cathedral Choir.
Mid Shore Community Mediation Center brings the community together by helping support productive conversations that increase understanding between the participants. The Center trains and utilizes volunteers from all backgrounds to facilitate mediations, during which individuals in conflict can develop their own solutions to problems, rather than have rulings imposed by a court or outside arbitrator. Among the cases regularly mediated by the Center’s volunteers are those involving parenting plans for parents who live apart, elder and family mediations, re-entry from prison discussions, neighbor conflicts, divorce, and workplace disputes.
This program is made possible by the generous support of the Talbot County Arts Council.
For more information about the concert or about training to become a volunteer mediator, contact the Mid Shore Community Mediation Center at 410-820-5553.
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