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DocuSign Envelope ID: 1EEODC85- 7CA9 -41CF- 815E- 5E4DD229C531 <br />Location Description The Day of Remembrance will take place at the Margaret Lane <br />Cemetery in Hillsborough, where many of the enslaved people that <br />built the town in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are buried, <br />and the adjacent Gold Park. <br />The Hillsborough Town Cemetery Committee has been briefed on the <br />project and voted unanimously in support of the event. <br />We are working closely with the Town of Hillsborough, including <br />Shannan Campbell, Economic Development Planner, and Stephanie <br />Trueblood, Public Space Manager to ensure project success. <br />Gold Park is a 24 -acre park, which has picnic structures that will be <br />used to cover performers, will serve as our entrance to the Riverwalk <br />for the procession to the cemetery. The procession will exit Gold Park <br />through the Calvin Street exit and proceed to the cemetery along the <br />Riverwalk, which is a paved, accessible, urban greenway that <br />stretches along the Eno River between Gold Park and trails in east <br />Hillsborough. <br />We will be hiring police security to ensure road crossings are safe. <br />There is parking at Gold Park and we are speaking to private parking <br />owners for additional lot space. <br />The locations are accessible for those with mobility issues. <br />Four to five flower making sessions will be held ahead of the event, <br />including at Earth Evening in Hillsborough, with other dates and <br />locations still being determined. <br />Artist Description The Branchettes and the Kings of Harmony were selected for <br />involvement in the project based on their artistic excellence and level <br />of experience, depth of experience in musical traditions of North <br />Carolina, and their shared history as local artists of this region. Both <br />The Branchettes and the Kings of Harmony have been torchbearers <br />for over 60 years of the traditions of North Carolina, exemplifying the <br />legacy of those before them that built Hillsborough. <br />The Branchettes, one of North Carolina's most celebrated traditional <br />gospel music ensembles, hails from Newton Grove, NC, in rural <br />Johnston County. The original trio consisted of Lena Mae Perry, Ethel <br />Elliott and Mary Ellen Bennett, along with piano accompanist Wilbur <br />Tharpe. They began singing together as children in the "Sunshine <br />Band" Sunday School choir at Long Branch Disciples Church. The <br />members continued to sing together in the church's adult choir, and <br />at churches throughout the region and formally organized as the <br />Branchettes in 1973. <br />The Branchettes were influenced by well -known traditional groups <br />like the Angelic Gospel Singers, and learned harmony from local <br />gospel quartets in which older relatives sang. Their immersion in <br />