Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Category: Event Calendar
Dates and Times for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025 5:15pm
- Sunday, Jan 19, 2025 2pm
- Saturday, Jan 18, 2025 3:45pm
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.
