Jermaine Nakia Lee's For the Love of Harlem
Sun, Oct 01
|The Parr Center@CPCC
The musical sensation, FOR THE LOVE OF HARLEM, profiles a weekend in the lives of the artistic visionaries who shaped the 1920-30’s Harlem Renaissance. Legendary figures like Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Richard Bruce Nugent, Wallace Thurman and Zora Neale Hurston
Time & Location
Oct 01, 2023, 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
The Parr Center@CPCC, 1201 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204, USA
About the event
Brand New Sheriff Productions & Jermaine Nakia Lee present the musical event, FOR THE LOVE OF HARLEM!
Book, lyrics and songs by Jermaine Nakia Lee, co-composition by Tyrone Jefferson Jr., choreography by Alex White.
The musical sensation, FOR THE LOVE OF HARLEM, profiles a weekend in the lives of the artistic visionaries who shaped the 1920-30’s Harlem Renaissance. Legendary figures like Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Richard Bruce Nugent, Wallace Thurman and Zora Neale Hurston are given real human faces. Their struggles between public recognition and self-identify are presented in a way rarely associated with these legends.
FOR THE LOVE OF HARLEM takes place during the zenith of the flowering of African American cultural and intellectual life. This period is referred to as the 1920’s – 30’s Harlem Renaissance (also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and the New Negro Movement). Nestled in the Harlem neighborhood of…