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A Blues People: the Black Experience and the Evolution of the Blues

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Add to Calendar 2023-02-23 6:00 PM 2023-02-23 8:00 PM America/New_York A Blues People: the Black Experience and the Evolution of the Blues

Join us in the Trinity Commons lower lobby to celebrate Black History Month. Storyteller and performance poet Mo Beasley and guitarist Apache Brown will lead you on a historical journey from the Mississippi Delta to Memphis, where Blues music and its people have left their indelible marks on United States soil. Hear stories inspired by unsung people, linking music and the African American experience.

Enjoy an evening of live performance and light refreshments with friends and community members.

Trinity Commons Open Hours

Trinity Commons Open Hours take place Monday to Friday from 10am - 2pm in the Lower Lobby. All are welcome. 
 

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Join us in the Trinity Commons lower lobby to celebrate Black History Month. Storyteller and performance poet Mo Beasley and guitarist Apache Brown will lead you on a historical journey from the Mississippi Delta to Memphis, where Blues music and its people have left their indelible marks on United States soil. Hear stories inspired by unsung people, linking music and the African American experience.

Enjoy an evening of live performance and light refreshments with friends and community members.

Trinity Commons Open Hours

Trinity Commons Open Hours take place Monday to Friday from 10am - 2pm in the Lower Lobby. All are welcome. 
 

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Mo Beasley

Performance poet

Mo Beasley is an award-winning performance poet, one of the "50 Unsung New York Heroes” according to The New York Daily News. He was also the stage manager for Broadway’s Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk , Off-Broadway’s Blue Man Group, and in 2018, Mo took his love for literature, activism, and education to South Florida to thread the African Diaspora.

Mo Beasley

Apache Brown

Musician, singer, and songwriter

Apache Brown is an independent blues musician, singer, and songwriter. His music style combines his upbringing in East Coast Hip Hop culture and blues, modern R&B, soul, funk, and rock and roll influences. His latest single release is titled "The World," a blues-inspired testimony on today's world through Apache Brown's lens.

Apache Brown