Beginning in February in Haralson County, more than a dozen
concerts and singings will help celebrate the music indigenous
to the west Georgia area. “New Harmonies” is part of Museum on
Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution
and state humanities councils nationwide. Support for Museum on
Main Street has been provided by the U. S. Congress. The actual
exhibit will be on display at the Warren P. Sewell Library in
Bremen Feb. 9 through March 23. The highlight and focus of the
exhibit will be on Georgia’s unique musical traditions and how
roots music has touched and shaped many Georgia communities.
According to Dr. Keith Hebert, a University of West Georgia
history professor, co-director of the university’s Center of
Public History, and coordinator the Bremen leg of the tour,
roots music is “the baseline for the development of American
music. All music that has developed in America originated from
the roots music examined in (the New Harmonies) exhibit.” The
different types of music that