Celebrate #CincoDeMayo! -- In the CBMR Library: #Mexico, Sones Jarochos of #Veracruz performed by Graciana Silva García, en concert à Paris. #BlackMusic

40th annual #BluesMusic Awards, May 9, 2019, 7 pm, #Memphis, blues.org/blues-music-aw…. Nominees include Shemekia Copeland, Bobby Rush, Joe Louis Walker & Buddy Guy.– In the CBMR Library: Goin' back to Sweet Memphis: Conversations with the Blues #BlackMusic

@TundeOlanira, singer/songwriter from #FlintMI is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow, unitedstatesartists.org/fellow/tunde-o…. Read interview excerpts, ow.ly/WkEl50rD5jZ #BlackMusic

#OTD Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist, composer & arranger, born in Atlanta GA in 1910 – In the CBMR Library: Soul on Soul : the Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams by Tammy L. Kernodle #BlackMusic #JazzMusic #BlackHistory @kernodle_l

Today!!! Columbia College Chicago’s Manifest Urban Arts Festival, manifest.colum.edu. Activities run from 8am-10pm, manifest.colum.edu/schedule. Graduating Students Parade at 12:45pm MANIFEST 2024 #CCCManifest

Ludovic Lamothe, #ClassicalMusic composer and pianist, born in Port-au-Prince, #Haiti #OTD in 1882 -- In the CBMR Library: "Musique de Ludovic Lamothe: Valses, Dances Espagnoles, Scènes de Carnaval et Autres" #BlackMusic

Stevie Wonder, singer, songwriter, pianist and harmonica player, born #OTD in 1950 in City Of Saginaw Mi – In the CBMR Library: “Groove and Flow: Six Analytical Essays on the Music of Stevie Wonder” by Timothy S. Hughes, 2003 #BlackMusic #BlackHistory

Tania Justina Léon, composer, conductor and pianist, born in #Havana #Cuba #OTD in 1943 – In the CBMR Archives: scores by Tania Léon #BlackMusic #ClassicalMusic

#NewOrleans Funerals, Second Lines, & All That Jazz, an interpretive lecture, today, May 15, 2019, New Orleans Jazz Museum nolajazzmuseum.org/events/2019/5/… -- In the CBMR Library: New Orleans Funeral & Parade : the original 1951 session by Eureka Brass Band #BlackMusic

Ayo Bankole, composer, organist and educator, born #OTD in 1935 in Jos, Plateau State, #Nigeria – In the CBMR Library: Intercultural dimensions in Ayo Bankole's music by Godwin Sadoh #BlackMusic #ClassicalMusic #AfricanHistory

Regina Harris Baiocchi works to be performed at the 6Degrees Composers concert, today, May 17, 2019, 7:30pm, 1312 S Michigan, #Chicago, – In the CBMR Archives: sheet music by Regina Harris Baiocchi #BlackMusic #ClassicalMusic Regina Baiocchi

Celebrate #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth -- In the CBMR Library: Music Cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia by William P. Malm

#MalcolmX, civil rights activist and Muslim minister, born #OTD in 1925 in #Omaha, #Nebraska – In the CBMR Archives: “X: the Life and Times of Malcolm X,” an opera by Anthony Davis, musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/… #BlackMusic #ClassicalMusic #BlackHistory

4th Annual #Chicago #HouseMusic Conference and Festival, May 23-25, 2019, chicago.gov/city/en/depts/… -- In the CBMR Library: Do You Remember House?: Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds by Micah E. Salkind #BlackMusic @MillenniumParkChicago Millennium Park

Happy Birthday #FatsWaller - Watch Ms. Ross and #theSupremes sing a medley of his songs, youtube.com/watch?v=i4cQZv… #BlackMusic #JazzMusic

#FatsWaller, #JazzMusic pianist, vocalist and composer, born #OTD in 1904 in NYC – In the CBMR Library: Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller: Performances in Transcription, 1927-1943 edited by Paul S. Machlin #BlackMusic #BlackHistory

Sun Ra, innovative #JazzMusic musician, composer & founder of THE SUN RA ARKESTRA, born #OTD in 1914 in #Birmingham AL – In the CBMR Library: Wisdom of Sun-Ra: Sun Ra's Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets compiled and introduced by John Corbett #BlackMusic #BlackHistory

Winners of the 2019 #BluesMusic Awards include Shemekia Copeland, Ruthie Foster, Eric Gales and Joe Louis Walker, blues.org/blues-music-aw… – In the CBMR Library: Blues Music sampler by Blues Revue, 2009 #BlackMusic

34th Annual #Chicago #GospelMusic Festival, May 31 & June 1, 2019, chicago.gov/city/en/depts/… -- In CBMR Library: Last Blues Preacher: @RevClayEvans, Black Lives, and the Faith that woke the Nation by Zach Mills #BlackMusic