Hallelujah! Forrest Gump's Mom Is Back In Town!

HALLELUJAH SINGERS CONCERT ANNOUNCED

Marlena Smalls announces the Hallelujah Singers fall performance of blues and spirituals

October 25 at 7:30 pm at Sea Island Presbyterian Church on Lady's Island.

Tickets are $30 adult and $15 children 12 and younger and are available at

www.HallelujahSingers.com or at the Beaufort Visitor Center at Town Center on

Boundary Street.

Smalls organized the Hallelujah Singers in 1990 to preserve the melodies and storytelling

unique to the South Carolina Sea Islands.

She is known to international audiences for her role as Bubba's Mom in the Academy Award winning film Forrest Gump where the Hallelujah Singers also performed.

The ensemble is a national art provider offering cultural enrichment through preserving

and celebrating the heritage of the Gullah culture .

Performances weaving music and narration present a dramatization of unique personages,

rituals and ceremonial dimension which played an important part in shaping the Gullah

culture.

The Hallelujah Singers travel as Gullah ambassadors, teaching and

entertaining in schools, auditoriums and festivals in their Fa Da Chillun Outreach

Program.

They have performed for the U. S. Congress, the South Carolina legislature, in

Chicago's Ravinia festivals, the Kennedy Center, the Spoleto Festival and the G-8

Summit.

The group has been designated a Local Legacy of South Carolina by the U. S. Library of

Congress as part of the library's Bicentennial Celebration.

This is a can't miss, for anyone wanting to explore all that Beaufort SC has to offer!