Lakewood Cultural Center Presents The Langston Hughes Project
Langston Hughes’ masterwork, featuring award-winning
Ron McCurdy Quartet comes to Lakewood
The LCC is thrilled to host The Langston Hughes Project: Ask Your Mama (12 Moods for Jazz), a dynamic multimedia jazz concert featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet. This acclaimed production, named “Live Experience of the Year” at the 2016 JazzFM Awards in London, will take place Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in conjunction with Black History Month. The performance features spoken word, music, history, visual arts and poetry.
NEA grant and historical significance
The Lakewood Cultural Center was recently awarded a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of this production.
Hughes’ poem suite is a homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at the beginning of the 1960s. Together, the words, sounds and images recreate a magical moment in our cultural history that bridges the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat Writers’ coffeehouse movement and the Black Arts performance explosion of that vibrant and tumultuous decade. Kabin Thomas, classical music host for Colorado Public Radio, lends his voice to Hughes’ powerful poem as part of the production.
For information on the The Ron McCurdy Quartet performance, the Visual arts exhibition: “Words Matter,” and the Community engagement and youth competition, please visit https://www.lakewoodco.gov/City-News-Media-Contacts/Langston-Hughes.
The Langston Hughes Project
7:30 p.m., Feb. 28
$33-$50
Lakewood.org/LCCPresents
303-987-7845
Lakewood Cultural Center
470 S. Allison Parkway
Lakewood, CO 80226
Hailed for “consistently producing gems across the disciplines of music, dance and family entertainment” by Ray Mark Rinaldi and the Denver Post, Lakewood Cultural Center is known for its exceptional programming.
Event Links
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