Tyrone Birkett : Turning The World Upside Down at Peter Norton Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia

A Juneteenth Celebration with composer and saxophonist Tyrone Birkett and his band Emancipation! This performance will feature a program entitled “Turning the World Upside Down”. Inspired by the notion of an alternative world where “the first will be the last, and the last will be the first.”

All are welcome into an ecstatic & curative space, as performances go from jazz club to black church, to funky freedom atmospheres and electronic music interludes.
Tyrone Birkett Emancipation has supported the work of Anna Deavere Smith and Nikki Giovanni. Performed at the Apollo Theater, WNYC/Greene Space, Schomburg Center for Black Culture, Riverside Theatre at Riverside Church, Storm King Arts Center, Flushing Town Hall, and the Harlem Arts Festival. ...

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A Juneteenth Celebration with composer and saxophonist Tyrone Birkett and his band Emancipation! This performance will feature a program entitled “Turning the World Upside Down”. Inspired by the notion of an alternative world where “the first will be the last, and the last will be the first.”

All are welcome into an ecstatic & curative space, as performances go from jazz club to black church, to funky freedom atmospheres and electronic music interludes.
Tyrone Birkett Emancipation has supported the work of Anna Deavere Smith and Nikki Giovanni. Performed at the Apollo Theater, WNYC/Greene Space, Schomburg Center for Black Culture, Riverside Theatre at Riverside Church, Storm King Arts Center, Flushing Town Hall, and the Harlem Arts Festival.

This performance is made possible by The Bronx Council of the Arts/Howard Gilman Foundation. Funding has been made possible by The Puffin Foundation, Ltd, and New York State Council on the Arts.

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