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Colour of Music Festival at IAAM

  • International African American Museum 14 Wharfside Street Charleston, SC, 29401 United States (map)

Concert: 7:00 p.m.

This program is designed as a guided experience that builds throughout the evening. We highly recommend arriving before 7:00 PM to fully engage with the progression of the program.

Revolutionary Soundscapes | Music, Freedom, & the African Diasporic Experience

Violin: Romuald Grimbert-Barré, James Keene 

Viola: Alexandra D’Amico & Jerome McCoy

Cello: Kenneth Law & Boubacar Diallo 

Narrator: Henry Clay Middleton

Narrator & Soloist: Michele Bankole

Soprano: Jennifer D. Ancrum, Canatrian M. Middleton, Cheryl Wright

Alto: Michelle Lincoln-Manigault, Katie-Marie Lewis-Fox, Rebecca L. M. Bartley

Tenor: Jerry Dowdy, Lee Pringle

Bass: Sean Buggs, Malcome Lemon


I. South Carolina Connections

Sacred Sound & Ancestral Memory

Lawd, How Come Me Heah?, Traditional, Arr. Lori Hicks 

 

II. Atlantic Worlds

Songs of Movement, Choice, & Unsteady Freedom

Come Here Jesus, Moses G. Hogan

 

III. American Journeys

Joy, Creation, & the Long Road to Liberation

Hear My Prayer, Moses G. Hogan

 

IV. Culmination – Center for Family History

The Living Archive

Any How, Moses G. Hogan

 

 

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

 
 
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