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November 20, 2024 7:30 PM
CPA Series | Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens: American Railroad
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Date
November 20, 2024 7:30 PM
Name
CPA Series | Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens: American Railroad
Description
Memorial Hall | Reserved Seating
As a social-impact organization and home to a GRAMMY® Award-winning musical ensemble, Silkroad works to inspire collaboration in innovative ways that add equity and justice into the world through the power of the arts. This will be Silkroad’s fifth performance in Chapel Hill. Today, under the leadership of Artistic Director and former Carolina Performing Arts artist-in-residence, Rhiannon Giddens, Silkroad reaches new heights through a commitment to new music, a mission towards cultural collaboration, and a reinvigorated focus to high-quality arts education.
Silkroad Ensemble’s newest initiative, American Railroad, illuminates the impact of African American, Chinese, Irish, and other immigrant and Indigenous communities on the creation of the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad and connecting railways in North America. Exploring the dissemination of cultures across the United States, the railroad was to North America what the Silk Road was to China, the Far East, and Europe.
Total runtime: 2 hours 20 minutes, including intermission
Intermission length: 20 minutes
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