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Lynette Sheard in Juneteenth Event Emotional Emancipation Union County Library
June 4, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT
Juneteenth Concert- Emotional Emancipation Union County Library 1060 Stuyvesant Ave, Union NJ- No Charge
EMOTIONAL EMANCIPATION
A Juneteenth performance entitled Emotional Emancipation
African American communities have used music and art; sometimes in place of written communication, to discuss life, death, spiritual philosophies, and emotions to cope with the traumas that came with being enslaved. This interactive and engaging performance will feature popular freedom songs that demonstrate the joy, sorrow, pain, inspiration, discontent, and hope experienced by African Americans on their continued journey towards healing and emotional emancipation.
Lynette Sheard who is a sought-after singer, actor, and producer whose performances have been lauded in numerous publications including The Star-Ledger, which proclaimed that “Her voice reaches deep into one’s soul and finds a soft spot”. She performs Jazz, Blues, R&B, Gospel, Soul, and Pop music. Theater credits include principal roles in Dream Girls, Smokey Joe’s Café, Ragtime, Swing, Aida, For Colored Girls, A Raisin in the Sun, and Avenue Q. In 2017 she was inducted into the “Encyclopedia of Newark Jazz. Lynette is also Director of the national award-winning NJ Mental Health Players and a Community Education Coordinator at the Mental Health Association in New Jersey
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