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Event Information
The Sacred Steel Music & History Museum
Where: Collingwood Presbyterian Church, 2108 Collingwood Blvd.
When: Saturday, March 28 10am-2pm
Free, family-friendly event will feature live performances by Sacred Steel artists, quartet singing and clean spoken-word creatives. The event is open to the public.
Founded to preserve and exhibit the Hawaiian steel guitar from an African American perspective, the museum highlights the lives and works of Sacred Steel pioneers such as Troman and Willie Eason, Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison.
Its collection spans 80 years of history and includes portable exhibit walls, large display cases filled with memorabilia and instruments and video features celebrating the genre’s legacy.
The space also houses the Sacred Steel Archive & Research Center (the world’s largest repository of African American Sacred Steel recordings and historical documentation) as well as the Harmony House Performing Arts Center, a venue dedicated to uplifting musical and spoken-word performances.
Organizers say the anniversary marks two years of preserving, celebrating and educating the community about the cultural impact of Sacred Steel music.
