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June 9th @ 7:00pm
*Reception & self-guided "Education Stations" @6:00pm
African American Meeting House

46 Joy Street, Boston, MA
 "Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began."

                    -Michelle Alexander "The New Jim Crow"
​Freedom Rising is a musical and dramatic exploration into the prison system of the United States. Narrators read facts, personal accounts, and quotations concerning incarceration systems throughout US history. This text supports the artistic beauty that lies within the souls of prisoners, as revealed through their poetry. The program is further enhanced by inspiring, emotionally packed music, with song arrangements, improvisations, and original works by Jeffrey Mumford, Frederick Rzewski, Ed Bland, Yusef Lateef, Renee’ C. Baker, and Anthony Green. Altogether, Freedom Rising clarifies – through narration, poetry, and music – the similarities between incarceration systems from 1800s America to the America of today. Yet in this deluge of dark fates and overwhelming circumstances, Freedom Rising also reveals a glimmer of hope: needed reform is coming, perhaps slowly, but surely. 

Tickets:
(available Online and at the door)

​Adults: $5
​Youth (13 - 17) & Seniors (62+): $3
MAAH members & children 12yrs and under: Free 
Performers:
(click on the NAME to learn more about the musicians)
Shaw Pong Liu, violin
Ashleigh Gordon, viola
Lizzie Burns, double bass
Seychelle Dunn-Corbin, saxophone
Ulysses Thomas, narrator
Nina LaNegra, narrator
Anthony Green, concert curator

​​​This program is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council,
administrated by the Mayor's Office
of Arts and Culture.
Full Program:
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  • Ed Bland – For Violin
  • Jeffrey Mumford – through the filtering dawn of spreading daybright
  • Frederick Rzewski – Attica for Speaker and Ensemble
  • Reneé Baker – Uncovered/Extended 
  • Yusef Lateef – Klockology 
  • If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus  (a civil right anthem)
  • Precious Lord
  • Controlled Improvisations: Outrage, Perplexed, Protesting

​*PLUS poetry by current and former convicts, facts and thought-provoking narration.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
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