The Department of Music presents UMBC Jazz in Concert under the direction of Matthew Belzer, featuring all of the UMBC jazz groups, large and small, and spotlighting student compositions.
Admission is free.
]]>Join Maryland Traditions, the folklife program of the Maryland State Arts Council, in honoring three outstanding stewards of our state’s living cultural traditions in a public ceremony and concert.
The ceremony will feature this year’s recipients: in the category of Person, documentary story quilter Joan M.E. Gaither of Anne Arundel County; in the category of Place, the Baltimore American Indian Center; and in the category of Tradition, the Deal Island Skipjack Races and Festival.
The evening will conclude with a country blues concert by the Phil Wiggins Blues House Party. Bandleader and harmonica player Wiggins, of Takoma Park, was honored earlier this year with a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts — the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
Free tickets are available here.
The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson.
The performance will be followed immediately by the UMBC Gospel Choir at 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
]]>UMBC’s Gamelan Ensemble, directed by Gina Beck, perform traditional Javanese music on the Department of Music’s Javanese gamelan.
Admission to this event is free.
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