EJI invites you to celebrate Juneteenth with an extraordinary night of music on June 19, 2024, in Montgomery, Alabama. The Legacy Sites Juneteenth Celebration Concert will be held at 7:30 pm at the Montgomery Performing Arts Centre. Tickets are now available, starting at $25.
The concert will feature performances by award-winning artists Wynton Marsalis, Esperanza Spalding, Lizz Wright, Samara Joy, and Cory Henry.
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Wynton Marsalis is a world-renowned trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator, scholar and jazz legend. He presently serves as Managing Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Director of Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School, and President of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. He’s won nine Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for his oratorio “Blood on the Field.”
Lawrence Sumulong
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Acclaimed vocalist and songwriter Lizz Wright sings with a soaring reflection of the cultural fabric of America. Wright is one of the great modern American singers with an illustrious 20-year career transcending social divides with her offer of love and deep sense of humanity.
Hollis King
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With her Grammy Award-Winning Verve Records debut, Linger Awhile, 24-year-old Bronx native Samara Joy has positioned herself to join the likes of Sarah, Ella, and Billie as the next mononymous jazz singing sensation recorded by the venerable label. The New York Times praised the “silky-voiced rising star” for “helping jazz take a youthful turn” while NPR All Things Considered named her a “classic jazz singer from a new generation.”
Ambe J. Williams
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Esperanza Spalding (also known as irma nejando) is an eaabibacliitoti* artist, trained and initiated in the North American (masculine) jazz lineage and tradition. Her work interweaves various combinations of instrumental music, improvisation, singing, composition, poetry, dance, therapeutic research, storytelling, teaching, restorative urban land & artist-sanctuary custodianship, and growing in love as a daughter, sister, cousin, niece, auntie, great-auntie, friend.
*European-African ancestored being influenced by American cultures living in Indigenous Territories of Turtle Island
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Cory Henry is a Grammy Award winning artist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and all around keyboard master. Henry has earned three Grammy nominations for his albums throughout his solo music career and won three Grammy Awards as a previous member of the band Snarky Puppy.
EJI will also be offering free admission to the Legacy Sites on June 19, 2024, from 9 am to 5 pm.
Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, a 17-acre site overlooking the Alabama River, opened earlier this year, joining our award-winning Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice as the latest addition to EJI’s Legacy Sites.
“I believe this will become a special place for millions of people who want to reckon with the history of slavery and honor the lives of people who endured tremendous hardship but still found ways to love in the midst of sorrow,” said EJI director Bryan Stevenson. “Many of us are the heirs to that extraordinary perseverance and hope. There is a lot to learn at this site and we want everyone to experience it.”
No tickets will be required to access the Legacy Sites on June 19, 2024.