Jazz Singer Liz Childs in Roxbury on August 27

The Minor Memorial Library is pleased to invite the public to the 24th annual McCann Concert on Sunday, August 27, at 3:00 PM. Acclaimed jazz singer Liz Childs will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the building of Roxbury’s Hodge Memorial Library, the predecessor to the Minor Library, with a program of Jazz standards from the 1930s, the golden age of big band music. The McCann Concert has been generously sponsored by the Connecticut Community Foundation, and admission is free.

In the depths of the Great Depression, music gave voice to Americans’ aspirations, optimism and joy. Band leaders such as Count Basie, Bennie Goodman, and Duke Ellington, amongst many others, travelled the country playing at venues and recording their music which aired on radio stations across the land. The music also featured in Broadway plays and Hollywood movies, and the public danced and listened avidly. In celebration of the opening of the Hodge Memorial Library and Museum in 1937, the Minor Library celebrates the 1930s with a series of lectures and events, of which the McCann Concert is the first. Other events will include a series of lectures in the fall and oral histories in the late fall and winter. 

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Submitted by Southbury, CT

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