McIntosh County Shouters: Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout from Georgia

The McIntosh County Shouters perform Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout at a concert at the Library. Speaker Biography: The McIntosh County Shouters is a ten-member Gullah-Geechee group that began performing professionally in 1980. They have educated and entertained audiences around the United States with the “ring shout,“ a compelling fusion of counterclockwise dance-like movement, call-and-response singing, and percussion consisting of hand claps and a stick beating the rhythm on a wooden floor. African in its