Bikin Waka da Labari na wannan shekara, sansanin iyali da kuma taron mawaƙa da mawaƙa na ’yan’uwa, za su yi wani muhimmin abu: bikin cika shekaru 20 na taron shekara-shekara. An shirya bikin Waƙa da Labari na 2016 don Yuli 3-9 a Camp Blue Diamond kusa da Petersburg, Pa.
“Mun daɗe muna taruwa don waɗannan bukukuwan Waƙa da Labari,” in ji ƙasidar taron. “An ciyar da mu ta hanyar musayar kiɗa, labarai, da abubuwan da suka faru a rayuwa. Mun yi tunani a kan kasancewa mutane masu bangaskiya a waɗannan lokutan wahala. Za mu ɗauki ɗan lokaci don tunawa da bikin tafiyar mu tare. Amma ba mu gama ba tukuna! Muna ci gaba da neman yunkuri na Ubangiji a cikin rayuwarmu da duniya baki daya, da jin dadin wannan yunkuri da kuma murnar wannan yunkuri tare da hada kai wajen fadada shi."
Masu ba da labari da shugabannin bita na bana sune Heidi Beck, Marie Benner-Rhoades, Deanna Brown, Debbie Eisenbise, Bob Gross, Kathy Guisewite, Reba Herder, Jonathan Hunter, da Jim Lehman. Campfire, taron bita, da mawakan kide-kide sune Louise Brodie, Jeffrey Faus da Jenny Stover-Brown, Chris Good, LuAnne Harley da Brian Krushwitz, Joseph Helfrich, Bill Jolliff, Peg Lehman, Lilly Nuss, Ethan Setiawan, da Mike Stern.
Ana samun ƙarin bayani da rajistar kan layi don wannan "sansanin gamayya na kowane zamani" a http://onearthpeace.org/song-story-fest-2016 . A Duniya Zaman lafiya ne mai tallafawa.
Tuntuɓi Ken Kline Smeltzer a bksmeltz@comcast.net don tambayoyi.