Performing this Sunday April 6th 7pm with Ahmed Ismail Yusuf & Somali Blues for the Cultural Fluency Initiative at Crossroads Saloon at University of St Thomas. The legendary J.D. Steele will also be performing. Gospel meets African Roots.

Meet You at the Crossroads a salon concert produced by the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies, co-sponsored by the Cultural Fluency Initiative, curated by David Jordan Harris.

Meet You at the Crossroads invites us to a musical meeting place for African-American gospel and Somali blues. Led by celebrated vocalist and conductor J.D. Steele and writer-musician Ahmed Ismail Yusuf, the concert features an enthralling mix of local gospel singers and Somali poetry woven with rhyme, rhythm, and melody. Meet You at the Crossroads is both encounter and collaboration, in which two musical cultures and the communal traditions that gave life to them are explored in conversation during and after the concert.

Schoenecker Arts Center at the University of St. Thomas (2210 Summit Ave., St. Paul).

To register https://tommielink.stthomas.edu/event/10413711