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Mark your calendars for June 22nd- 27th, as the Edwin Hawkins and Walter Hawkins Music & Arts Love Fellowship Conference makes it triumphant return to Oakland, California.\u00a0 This year’s conference boasts of a number of hands on classes and workshops taught by industry leaders and veterans as well as nightly concerts and showcases.\"Edwin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark your calendars for June 22nd- 27th, as the Edwin Hawkins and Walter Hawkins Music & Arts Love Fellowship Conference makes it triumphant return to Oakland, California.\u00a0 This year’s conference boasts of a number of hands on classes and workshops taught by industry leaders and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,42],"tags":[126,43,1270,1988],"class_list":["post-7011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-news-and-updates","category-conferences","tag-bishop-walter-hawkins","tag-edwin-hawkins","tag-music-and-arts-love-fellowship-conference","tag-oakland-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":82,"url":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/edwin-hawkins-malf-in-chicago\/","url_meta":{"origin":7011,"position":0},"title":"Edwin Hawkins' MALF in Chicago","author":"Gregory Gay","date":"June 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The 29th annual Edwin and Walter Hawkins Music and Arts Love Fellowship Conference (formerly the Music and Arts Seminar) converged upon the \"Gospel Music Capital of the World\", Chicago, Illinois with a week of workshops, panel discussions, new artist showcases, \u00a0musicals and services the week of June 20th. 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