Brown University’s music department is leading their campus
in a month-long commemoration of the 4th anniversary of Hurricane
Katrina that culminates this Friday, September 25, with a fundraising event for
NOAHH at the Brown
University Salomon
Center.
The event will feature a "multimedia tribute" to New Orleans featuring Matt Leder and his jazz band and Michelle Bach-Coulibaly and her
dance troupe. The party starts for everyone with a street band parade (or
“second line” as we call it down here) through Brown’s campus and ends with a
gala champagne reception for patrons at the Faculty Club. A map of the parade
route can be found here.
Attendance at the parade is free, but the suggested donation
for tickets to the concert is $10 for general admission and $5 for those with a
Brown ID. The patron reception package is $50 for the general public and $25
for those with a Brown ID. Tickets will be available 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the
Orwig Music Building
on Brown’s campus.
Through the month of September and until early October,
ongoing exhibits on New Orleans
will be featured around Brown’s campus. From a display of "historic New Orleans
sheet music and Katrina-inspired poetry" to photographic and projector-based art
installations can be found all over the university. Movies, author readings,
and discussions have also been featured.
Thursday, September 24, author Louis Maistros will be
holding a reading and signing of his book The Sound of Building Coffins
at 7 p.m. in the Brown Bookstore. On Friday, September 25, at 4 p.m., he will
be holding a discussion of jazz and his writing in the Grant Recital Hall.
Saturday, October 3, a Cub Explorer children’s program about Habitat will be
held at the Brown Bookstore.
For more information, follow these links: here, here, and
here.
