Bese Saka Festival

Unlimited Gospel Expressions

Soulful Melodies fill the air as voices unite in harmony...  A celebration of faith, freedom amazing negro spirituals!

3520 Baker Ave

Bese Saka is an annual festival celebrated in West Africa. The festival marks the end of the old yam harvest and the beginning of the new yam festival. It is a time for family and friends to gather together, to celebrate the harvest and to give thanks for a bountiful crop. The festival usually takes place in August and lasts for several days.

The highlight of the Bese Saka festival is the presentation of new yams by the farmer . This modern Festival will celebrate the Negro Spiritual. Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with Black Americans, which merged sub-Saharan African cultural heritage with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for centuries afterwards, through the domestic slave trade. Spirituals encompass the "sing songs," work songs, and plantation songs that evolved into the blues and gospel songs in church. In the nineteenth century, the word "spirituals" referred to all these subcategories of folk songs. While they were often rooted in biblical stories, they also described the extreme hardships endured by African Americans who were enslaved from the 17th century until the 1860s, the emancipation altering mainly the nature (but not continuation) of slavery for many.

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