'Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story' Coast Jazz Orchestra opens for this 2021 documentary about the 50-year history of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Q&A with codirector Ryan Suffern follows.
Music Mexico Symposium Attendees experience a two-day extravaganza of performance and education highlighting Mexican classical music. See hop.dartmouth.edu for full schedule. Virtual option available.
Martin Luther King III On May 23, 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on the state of the civil rights movement at Dartmouth College as part of the school’s Great Issues curriculum. On the 60th anniversary of his father’s speech, Martin Luther King III gives his own address to students, locals and virtual audiences. Reflecting on his father’s legacy and the work still to be done in the fight for racial justice, King introduces the Dartmouth 2022 Social Justice Awards, which honor members of the college’s community who have shown exceptional devotion to activism.
'Small Island Big Song' Small Island Big Song, a multimedia performance project founded by Taiwanese producer BaoBao Chen and Australian music producer Tim Cole, aims to bring together the musical traditions of island nations throughout the Pacific and Indian oceans. These cultures, though far-flung, have plenty in common: their seafaring histories, their postcolonial perseverance and their position at the front lines of the climate crisis. Combining live music, spoken word and video footage, performers from Mauritius, Tonga, New Zealand, Tahiti, Rapa Nui, Madagascar and beyond take audiences on a journey through the music and soul of their island homes.