#  An Evening with Twinkie Clark: A Conversation and Recital 

 



## April 10, 2024 at 6 PM

James Room, Swartz Hall  
Harvard Divinity School

## SPEAKERS:

   ![Twinkie Clark headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/hds2/files/twinkieclark1-250px.jpg?itok=J6Vq_SWs) 

 

### Twinkie Clark

Twinkie Clark is an award-winning gospel singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, musician, music educator, and evangelist. She is the creative force propelling gospel group The Clark Sisters to international fame. With hits including “You Brought the Sunshine” and “Is My Living in Vain,” she and her sisters are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipients. Twinkie Clark is a Hammond Organ Hall of Fame member.

   ![Charrise Barron headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/hds2/files/barron-250px.jpg?itok=K_3PCksQ) 

 

### Charrise Barron

Charrise Barron is an ethnomusicologist and historian of African American religious culture. She is a faculty member in the Harvard University Department of Music.

   ![Damien Sneed headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/hds2/files/sneed-250px.jpg?itok=fhKAOCmu) 

 

### Damien Sneed

Damien Sneed is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, conductor, arranger, and producer. He is a Department of Music faculty member at Howard University.

### Featuring:

Dean Teddy Hickman-Maynard  
*HDS Associate Dean for Ministry Studies*  
   
Bryant “Deuce” Thomas II  
*Percussionist*

## PROGRAM:

### Welcome

Dean Hickman-Maynard

### Piano Performance

Twinkie Clark

### Keynote Conversation

Facilitated by Charrise Barron and Damien Sneed

### Organ Performance

Twinkie Clark

### Audience Q&A

Facilitated by Charrise Barron and Damien Sneed

### Closing Remarks

## SPECIAL THANKS:

Dean Marla F. Frederick  
*Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, John Lord O’Brian Professor of Divinity, and Professor of Religion and Culture*

Dean Teddy Hickman-Maynard  
*Harvard Divinity School Associate Dean of Ministry Studies*

Leslie MacPherson  
*Departmental Administrator, Harvard Divinity School Office of Ministry Studies*

Carolyn Abbate  
*Harvard University Department of Music Chair*

### Sponsors and Affiliates:

**Harvard Divinity School Office of Ministry Studies**

   ![Harvard University Department of Music](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds2/files/fas_department_of_music_signature_horizontal_cmyk.jpg?itok=Z_vka3Qj) 

 

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