MUSIC

Shawn E. Okpebholo: Songs in Flight

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2023
7:00 PM

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$35
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If anybody’s written a better song in the last few years than Shawn E. Okpebholo’s Two Black Churches, I haven’t heard it. This is an evening-length presentation embodying the stories of fugitive slaves. It’s sung by a stellar list of singers, including Will Liverman (who introduced Two Black Churches) and Rhiannon Giddens, who contributes some additional material.

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