The smell of salt in the air. Spanish moss hanging like old prayers from oak branches. Elders laughing on porches while music rolled through the humidity like memory itself. I knew what it felt like to hear Gullah spoken not as performance, but as life.

I don't know if grateful is a big enough word to express how we feel every year.

It started with a conversation in a living room and forty years later, we are still bringing edutainment to the masses and we are not stopping.

The Gullah Festival is an awesome event for the community and for all who travel from all over the world to experience the Gullah culture through what we call edutainment.