A first-person presentation by Shirley Lee Corsey as Harriet Tubman; her early life, escape from slavery to Philadelphia & beyond!
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"Shirley
On behalf of myself, and everyone that was in attendance today for your presentation we all would like to say thank you. It was extremely interesting to learn this much about Harriet Tubman. Thank you again from all of us."
-Deby
Bucks County Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Shirley Lee Corsey, as Harriet Tubman - will present a reenactment performance, designed to educate and inform about the Underground Railroad & the "Freedom Fighters" including; Frederick Douglass, William Still, William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, Sojourner Truth, & Lucretia Mott. "Harriett" provides highlights about herself and these brave abolitionists!
Gather Place Museum is providing information about our*programs we have available for schools, and community-based organizations at venues throughout the Bucks County and South New Jersey area and/or nationwide via Zoom online as well! Contact us via email to discuss how we can customize our programs for you, per request. Upon your request we will discuss our fee and/or donations we accept to provide these program(s).
*Following are these programs created, developed and produced by Shirley Lee Corsey:
A crusader for the women's suffrage movement.
Aside from her advocacy for women's suffrage, Anthony also campaigned extensively for the abolition of slavery and the labor rights of women.
Frances E.W. Harper
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Sojourner Truth
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Elizabeth Piper Ensley
Mary Church Terrell
She was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
A first-person presentation by Shirley Lee Corsey as Harriet Tubman; her early life, escape from slavery to Philadelphia & beyond! Also, about the "Freedom Fighters" who helped, her life as a Civil War spy & nurse, and women's right to vote activist. We'll end with talk about Bucks County's Underground Railroad sites
Join local jazz vocalist and educator Shantel Hubert for a multi-faceted tribute to the great American poet, playwright, novelist, Harlem Renaissance artist, Langston Hughes. Through original musical performances, poetry, and lecture, Hubert will explore Hughes’ powerful words and draw us closer together.
Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) is a music festival held every April in the United States, in honor of jazz as an early American art form. JAM was created in 2001 by John Edward Hasse, curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. It became a national extension of the original Jazz Awareness Month created by the Louisiana Jazz Federation in New Orleans in 1980
(April 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996)
The greatest female interpreter of the American songbook, a unique vocalist combining scat and jazz, with enduring influence. Singer Ella Fitzgerald became known as "The First Lady of Song." She won over fans of jazz and popular song.
Explore her music in "Ella's Singing Class."
(April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974)
Mr. Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life
Duke Ellington was one of America's greatest composers and a brilliant bandleader and pianist. In every respect, he was one of a kind.
Explore his music in "Duke's Music Class." .
(August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971)
Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of jazz. He received numerous accolades including the Grammy Award for Best Male V
(August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971)
Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of jazz. He received numerous accolades including the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance for Hello, Dolly! in 1965, as well as a posthumous win for the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1972, and the induction into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.
(May 26, 1926- September 28, 1991)
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.
(April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959)
(born Eleanora Fagan; was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing
(April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959)
(born Eleanora Fagan; was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.[1]
(August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003)
Born Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career in the 1920s, he worked as an arranger including written charts for Fletcher Henderson'
(August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003)
Born Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career in the 1920s, he worked as an arranger including written charts for Fletcher Henderson's big band that shaped the swing style. He had an unusually long career that lasted into the 1990s. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, which included receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jazz is a kind of music in which improvisation is typically an important part. In most jazz performances, players play solos which they make up on the spot, which requires considerable skill. There is tremendous variety in jazz, but most jazz is very rhythmic, has a forward momentum called "swing," and uses "bent" or "blue" notes. You can often hear "call--and--response" patterns in jazz, in which one instrument, voice, or part of the band answers another. (You can hear Ella Fitzgerald and Roy Eldridge do "call and response" in Ella's Singing Class.) Jazz can express many different emotions, from pain to sheer joy. In jazz, you may hear the sounds of freedom-for the music has been a powerful voice for people suffering unfair treatment because of the color of the skin, or because they lived in a country run by a cruel dictator.
Jazz musicians place a high value on finding their own sound and style, and that means, for example, that trumpeter Miles Davis sounds very different than trumpeter Louis Armstrong (whose sound you can hear in Louis's Music Class.) Jazz musicians like to play their songs in their own distinct styles, and so you might listen to a dozen different jazz recordings of the same song, but each will sound different. The musicians' playing styles make each version different, and so do the improvised solos. Jazz is about making something familiar--a familiar song--into something fresh. And about making something shared--a tune that everyone knows--into somethingpersonal. Those are just some of the reasons that jazz is a great art form, and why some people consider it "America's classical music."
Jazz developed in the United States in the very early part of the 20th century. New Orleans, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, played a key role in this development. The city's population was more diverse than anywhere else in the South, and people of African, French, Caribbean, Italian, German, Mexican, and American Indian, as well as English, descent interacted with one another. African-American musical traditions mixed with others and gradually jazz emerged from a blend of ragtime, marches, blues, and other kinds of music. At first jazz was mostly for dancing. (In later years, people would sit and listen to it.) After the first recordings of jazz were made in 1917, the music spread widely and developed rapidly. The evolution of jazz was led by a series of brilliant musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington (listen to Ellington in Duke's Music Class), Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis. Jazz developed a series of different styles including traditional jazz, swing (listen, for example, to Benny Carter, who got his start in swing music, in Benny's Music Class) bebop, cool jazz, and jazz?rock, among others. At the same time, jazz spread from the United States to many parts of the world, and today jazz musicians--and jazz festivals--can be found in dozens of nations. Jazz is one of the United States's greatest exports to the world..
Join local jazz vocalist and educator Shantel Hubert for a multi-faceted tribute to the great American poet, playwright, novelist, Harlem Renaissance artist, Langston Hughes. Through original musical performances, poetry, and lecture, Hubert will explore Hughes’ powerful words and draw us closer together.
Location: Gather Place Museum | 188 South Canal Street, Yardley, Pa. 19067 Seating is limited. Reservation is required.
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