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Common Ground For Diversity Week, I attended the 2pm show of Finding Common Ground: Resolving Cultural Conflicts with Music and Nonviolence. The show featured musicians that comprise the group Common Ground on the Hill out of McDaniel College. The group consists of a lead singer, two guitarists, and a man on the harmonica. The show lasted about 45 minutes because of technical difficulties in the beginning. Common Ground on the Hill played a variety of music in the show, mainly consisting of blues, gospel, and spirituals. All of the songs were done in a way to get the audience involved, either by singing certain words, clapping, or even standing in a line behind the singer and dancing together. The main topics that the performance dealt with were liberal thinking, allowing for deeper thinking and living, and equality in race and ethnic backgrounds. The performers talked a while about legacies and family stories, as well as non-violence and peace studies. While this performance did not open my eyes to anything new about world peace and race equality, it did make me feel more “at home” with my fellow URI students that attended. common, ground, public, performance, show, about, people, make, while, week, topic, thinking, singing, singer, race, perception, peace, out, new, music, maybe, hill, group, even, equality, during, diversity, dealt, class, clapping, because, attended, worry, world, words