Family Matinee w/ Marcus Shelby New Orchestra
February 18, 2023 @ 11:00 AM PST
The Marcus Shelby New Orchestra combines music, text, and video in live performance that addresses Black history—past, present, and future. Marcus Shelby has composed several big band orchestral suites that musically honors the legacy of the Black experience such as Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land, Port Chicago, Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Black Ball: The Negro Leagues and the Blues, Beyond the Blues: The Prison Industrial Complex, and more.
