Some Sing: A Juneteenth Celebration

Any cultural historian will tell you that blues, jazz, rock, R&B, Hip-Hop, zydeco, and country can all trace their roots back to Black innovators, making the history of popular music in America and Black music in America inextricably bound. This truth is at the heart of historian, artist, and curator Carl Hancock Rux’s 2024 Juneteenth Celebration at Lincoln Center, a campus-wide jubilee of Black sound in all its vernacular and complex manifestations. Rux’s vision acknowledges how music unites a people and acts as an agent for growth and freedom, referencing the uses of the art in work songs, prison laments, spirituals, and commemorations. At different performance spaces across campus, visitors will hear performances by influential free jazz experimentalist Cooper-Moore, Brooklyn singer-songwriter Tamar-kali, Bronx-born soul musician Stephanie McKay, and many more, culminating in a concert set with Herb Alpert award-winning composer Toshi Reagon (Parable of the Sower) and her full band.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Experience at 212-875-5456 or guestexperience@lincolncenter.org.

Will include American Sign Language interpretation.