{"id":16243,"date":"2025-06-05T16:18:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=16243"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:18:52","slug":"sacred-steel-museum-celebrates-one-year-anniversary-and-years-of-musical-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/sacred-steel-museum-celebrates-one-year-anniversary-and-years-of-musical-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Steel Museum Celebrates One-Year Anniversary and Years of Musical History"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Truth Staff<\/p>\n

The Sacred Steel Music and History Museum, which opened in 2024 by Del and Kelli Grace, celebrated a one-year anniversary on May 31, 2025, as guests were treated to museum tours, refreshments and a concert by dozens of musicians steeped in the steel guitar tradition.<\/p>\n

The Museum was established in 2024 by the Graces as a tribute to the rich history of steel guitar music in the African American tradition. Located at 2108 Collingwood Blvd inside of the Collingwood Presbyterian Church, visitors can learn about 80 years of sacred steel music tradition as well as its founder, Mary Lena Lewis Tate.<\/p>\n

\u201cSacred Steel music, predominantly performed in African American Pentecostal churches, represents a distinct genre within American folk music. Whether used in worship services or other musical settings, it is one of the most vibrant and significant contributions to Pentecostal musical heritage,\u201d according to the Sacred Steel website.<\/p>\n

\"\"Musicians honored this tradition on Saturday by explaining that history through song as the packed house joined in the celebration and showed their appreciation.<\/p>\n

The Sacred Steel Music and History Museum includes artifacts, biographies and interviews with those who have been a part of that history, including notable performers such as Felton Williams, Jr, The Campbell Brothers, Calvin Cooke, Aubrey Ghent, among many others. The museum also includes audio and video recordings \u2013 interviews, concerts and documentaries.<\/p>\n

The museum is open to visitors on Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. \u2013 except the last Saturday of each month.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that August is Sacred Steel Music and History Month in Toledo and a Sacred Steel Outdoor Festival will take place the weekend on August 15-16, featuring the living legends of the Sacred Steel tradition.<\/p>\n

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The Truth Staff The Sacred Steel Music and History Museum, which opened in 2024 by Del and Kelli Grace, celebrated a one-year anniversary on May 31, 2025, as guests were treated to museum tours, refreshments and a concert by dozens of musicians steeped in the steel guitar tradition. The Museum was established in 2024 by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[296],"class_list":["post-16243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16247,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions\/16247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16243"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}