The University of Minnesota Duluth's sixth annual Shades of Africa Festival salutes African American women composers with a resident artist concert. The program includes works by Florence Price, Zenobia Powell Perry, Margaret Bonds, Valerie Coleman, Sakari Dixon Vandrveer, Allison Loggins Hall and Melba Liston. It features performances by UMD music faculty, including Jean R. Perrault, viola; Asami Hagiwara, piano; Theodore Schoen, clarinet; Paula Gudmundson, flute; Jacqueline Holstrom, piano; Elias Mokole, baritone; Thomas Muehlenbeck-Pfotenhauer, trumpet; Derek Bromme, trombone; and Ryan Frane, piano.…

The University of Minnesota Duluth's sixth annual Shades of Africa Festival continues with a Tribute to Minnesota’s First Black Women Judges and African American Composers. A documentary on the first Black women judges of Minnesota will be shown, followed by the University of Minnesota Duluth Symphony Orchestra performing music by Florence Price, Undine Smith Moore, Dorothy Rudd Moore and Tania Leon. The show is presented as part of Black History Month and Women’s History Month and made possible with funding by…