The Silver Jubilee Season | CONCERT II
Expanding Freedom
Coretta's Freedom Concert, on Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend.
CORETTA'S FREEDOM CONCERT
Music and history meet as they did in the movement itself.
Inspired by Coretta Scott King's historic Freedom Concerts, Expanding Freedom reclaims the concert stage as a place of remembrance, resistance, imagination, and human possibility.
Across generations of Black women and the continuing struggle for freedom, Margaret Bonds gives musical voice to the poetry of Langston Hughes, while Nkeiru Okoye's powerful Songs of Harriet Tubman traces the transformation of one woman into an enduring symbol of liberation.
With Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole carrying the larger story of Coretta Scott King and the Freedom Concert tradition, music and history meet as they did in the movement itself: not as decoration, but as a force for change.
- Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Colenarrator
Additional artists to be announced.
THE PROGRAM
The voices of Black women, and the long work of freedom.
- Jessie Montgomery b. 1981Duo for Violin and Cello
- Margaret Bonds 1913–1972Three Dream Portraitstexts by Langston Hughes
- Nkeiru Okoye b. 1972Songs of Harriet Tubman
Narrator: Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole. Additional repertoire and artists to be announced. Programs and artists are subject to change.
PLAN YOUR EVENING
Come as you are.
Admission is free and open to the public. Reserve your seats on Eventbrite and choose general admission or Pay What You Can at checkout: suggested $25, or $250 for the 25th Anniversary. No explanation is required, and there is no difference in where you sit.
Terry Concert Hall, Jacksonville University
2800 University Boulevard North, Jacksonville, Florida 32211
Latecomers are seated at an appropriate pause in the program.
The afternoon before
Tea at The Terry brings music from this program to the senior community on Friday, January 15, 2027, at 1:00 p.m. About Tea at The Terry