Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Category: Event Calendar
Dates and Times
- Saturday, Jan 18, 2025 3:45pm
- Sunday, Jan 19, 2025 2pm
- Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025 5:15pm
Location
The Nightlight
30 N High St
Details
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
