Day two, afternoon panel: Musicians on music, with panelists Hilda Harris, voice teacher at Sarah Lawrence College, speaking on Victoria Spivey, Mamie Smith, Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter; LaShonda Barnett, Professor of Black Women's History at Sarah Lawrence College, speaking on Nina Simone, Abbey Lincoln, and Cassandra Wilson; W. S. Tkweme, University of Massachusetts, speaking on African American musicians and their takes on music; and John Szwed, Columbia University, giving a "prose praise poem" for Baraka's Blues people.