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Melrose, MA
The Opening Doors Festival
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The Opening Doors Festival is a live, outdoor, all-ages celebration of diversity and inclusion through music and art!
Featuring:
• A musical conversation by veteran musicians and storytelling troubadours Reggie Harris and Alastair Moock
• Music and drumming by the Dorchester-based teenage Tour Choir of Boston City Singers
• A community art project facilitated by Boston-based Artists for Humanity and Melrose-based Follow Your Art Community Studios, in collaboration with Melrose teen artists
Our first large-scale live music event aims to make the Melrose cultural scene more diverse and inclusive by elevating voices of color within our community and beyond – bringing the city closer to its ideal of “One community, open to all.”
When:
Saturday, June 11 at 3pm
350 Lynn Fells Parkway
Melrose, MA 02176
Made possible by:
An evening with Kemp Harris, followed by a live Q&A session hosted by Alastair Moock.
Kemp Harris is an artist who defies categorization. Singer-songwriter, actor, activist, author, storyteller, and educator, his music spans and transcends the genres of soul, blues, jazz, and musical theater.
Born in segregated North Carolina in 1953, Kemp moved to the Boston area to pursue a career in education. He was a beloved, award-winning kindergarten teacher in Newton, Massachusetts for more than 40 years.
Throughout this time, he pursued his artistic career on the side – albeit at a very high level.
But, for Kemp, it was all part of the same pursuit. “I’ve incorporated my life experiences into what has become me and the music I create,” he says. “At the end of the day, I’m an old black man telling stories and spreading the love.”
Covid safety: Two commercial HEPA air filters will be in operation and we request that all attendees wear a mask.
Made Possible by:
For a tax-deductible donation via a 501(c)(3) organization please donate through our fiscal sponsor, Filmmakers Collaborative.
Note: There is a 5% processing fee for this service.
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