I AM SO THANKFUL

SPECIAL GUESTS Ysaye Barnwel, Sweet HONEY IN THE ROCK Ysaye M. Barnwell was born in New York City and has lived in Washington, D.C., for over 40 years. Her life experiences have taken her down three major paths. She began in music at the age of 2½, studying violin for 15 years with her father and majoring in music in high school. She sang in a choir while in junior high school and then in college. In 1976, she founded the Jubilee Singers at All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C. It was, there in 1979, that Bernice Johnson Reagon witnessed her as a singer and a Sign Language interpreter and invited her to audition for Sweet Honey In The Rock. Barnwell is also a Speech Pathologist with the Bachelors , Masters (SUNY, Geneseo 1963-68) and Ph.D. (University of Pittsburg 1975) degrees and was a professor in the College of Dentistry for over a decade. In 1981 she completed post-doctoral work and earned the Master of Science in Public Health. DeAnne Graham Ayuda Harmony Fontaine