{"id":2253,"date":"2023-10-01T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/billie-holiday\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:13:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T19:13:39","slug":"the-fifth-annual-billie-holiday-center-for-liberation-arts-jazz-in-the-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/billie-holiday\/2023\/10\/01\/the-fifth-annual-billie-holiday-center-for-liberation-arts-jazz-in-the-square\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fifth Annual Billie Holiday Jazz at Lafayette Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\u00a0Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts, and founding director\u00a0Lawrence Jackson<\/strong>, hosted the fifth annual Billie Holiday Jazz at Lafayette Square<\/a> this September 9, 2023. The event is\u00a0a musical celebration of the rich and important legacy of Baltimore\u2019s own jazz legend Billie Holiday Held at Lafayette Square Park, corner of Arlington Avenue and Lafayette Street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performances were provided by The Nasar Abadey Jazz Quartet–Sean Jones (trumpet), Herman Burney (bass), Richard Johnson (keys) and Abadey (drums)–with special guest vocalist, recording artist Charen\u00e9e Wade, professor of vocals and Jazz Studies at Peabody. Product vendors were on hand, as well as community organizations with displays and information sharing throughout the day. Additional performers this year included DJ Charles Dockins, and the Peabody Jazz Graduate Fellowship. The festival was hosted by renowned poet, writer, and professor Kondwani Fidel and as always, was free to the public<\/u>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Jackson has just finished working on the street at northwest the corner of Lafayette and Arlington, the morning of September 9, 2023. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Students from Professor Jackson\u2019s class, African American Literature since 1900, seated and standing beside Peabody Jazz Studies Professors Charenee Wade, Richard D. Johnson, and Tim Green at the St. James Episcopal Church in Lafayette Square.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The jazz musicians performing in the sanctuary of the St. James Episcopal Church.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jazz musicians James King on bass, Charen\u00e9e Wade vocalist, Nasar Abadey on drums, and Tim Green on alto saxophone, performing in the sanctuary of the St. James Episcopal Church in Lafayette Square during the afternoon of September 9, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inheritance Baltimore curatorial team seated in front of The Birth of Jazz Exhibit at Jazz in the Square 2023. Gabrielle Dean, Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson, Jennie Chaplin and Xavier Walker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lafayette Square is an anchor of Baltimore\u2019s African American religious life, hosting St. James Episcopal Church, one of the city\u2019s three black congregations dating its origins before the 1830s, St. John\u2019s AME Church, Metropolitan Methodist Church, and Star of Bethlehem Spiritual Temple.  Two of the oldest African American Christian congregations in the United States, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal and Sharp Street United Memorial are only four blocks away.  Billie Holiday herself lived on both Fremont Street and Argyle Avenue, just off of Lafayette, and the fountainhead of the City\u2019s jazz heritage was at the Royal Theater (1922-1971), located at Pennsylvania and Lafayette Avenue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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