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For about forty years, Guy and Candie Carawan have devoted their lives to music making, collecting and spreading songs, documenting cultural expression, organizing traditional music festivals and designing workshops with the goal of empowering participants to learn and inspire others in their own communities. They have raised two chldren while living on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina, finding themselves at the forefront of the civil rights movement, and living and soaking up the culture of
- Matt Watroba : Sing Out Magazine : Spring 2000
Furthermore, people's indigenous cultural expression is something of value in itself -- part of any community's heritage which can give strength, a sense of identity, and confidence. As Highlander's work shifted focus from issue to issue and region to region, the cultural fabric shifted as well. We have found ourselves working in culturally rich communities from Johns Island and the low country South Carolina sea islands, to the Appalachian coalfields and the deep black belt South during the turbulent years