Archives Collection
CENTER FOR POPULAR MUSIC 01-011
MISCELLANEOUS PERFORMANCES
Freedom’s Journey
Photographs,
program book and poster
Physical Description:
.1
l.f. including: photographs: 42 negatives from which 2 contact sheets have been
made.
1
program book and 1 poster
Dates:
January
12, 2001
Provenance:
Created
by Center for Popular music to document seminar and performance.
Agency History/biographical
sketch:
This
was a performance in tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. performed by the
Princely Players of Nashville, Tennessee.
Founded at Cameron High School in Nashville by H. German Wilson in 1967,
the group traces the history of African Americans through drama and a cappella
singing. Members at the time of this
performance were James Brown (bass), Kevin Carroll (tenor), Jackie Elston
(Soprano), Roderick Kelley (bass), Gloria Ransom (soprano), Odessa L. Settles
(alto), Nita Motley Smith (soprano), Robert L. Smith (bass).
Scope and content:
In
January of 2001 the Center for Popular Music co-hosted with the
Murfreesboro/Rutherford County Center for the Arts a two-part performance of
The Princely Players, a theatrical company based in Nashville. The program consisted of an afternoon seminar
held in the Mass Communications Building of MTSU, followed by an evening
performance at the Center for the Arts.
Location:
Images
are filed with other Center iconographic files (CPM-PR).
Related Materials:
Large
poster for event cataloged in Performance Documents.