Events

Past Event

ESA Apollo Theater: Blues and Its People

February 18, 2023
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
America/New_York
Mudd Hall, 500 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027 Carleton Commons

Engineering Student Affairs invites you to the Apollo Theater show Blue's and Its People! This exciting one-night-only exploration of jazz, gospel, and blues, commissioned by the Apollo, traverses Baraka’s text through song and readings curated by Fredara Hadley, Ph.D., an ethnomusicologist at The Julliard School of Music.

The Blues and Its People, an electrifying evening-length concert featuring critically acclaimed composer and trumpeter Russell Gunn and his Royal Krunk Jazz Orkestra that brings to life poet and author Amiri Baraka’s groundbreaking work, Blues People: Negro Music in White America.

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Engineering Student Affairs