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Classical Uncorked | Of Rum and Rebellion

Experience the music behind the turbulent crossroads of politics, the rum industry, and the transatlantic slave trade in the Caribbean, South America, and Europe.

This unique program includes songs by Black British composer, abolitionist, and merchant Ignatius Sancho as well as by José Mauricio Nuñes Garcia, grandson of sugar cane plantation slaves.

Hear a violin sonata by Caribbean-born Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, who in his later life fought for Haitian independence, as well as works by 19th and 20th century Créole composers.

TICKETS

$30 Tickets

LOCATION

In Zech Hall

THE ARTISTS

Jean Bernard Cerin - Baritone

Tekla Cunningham - Violin

Henry Lebedinsky - Fortepiano

Earlier Event: November 19
Kiss the Ground (Film Screening) + Talk / Q&A with The Organic Farm School
Later Event: November 20
Celebrating the Gifts of Whidbey featuring the talents of local favorites: Chris Harshman, Dana Moffett, Sheila Weidendorf and more!

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.