The Black Legacy Project
Celebrate Black history and foster racial solidarity, equity, and belonging at Dominican University Performing Arts Center on February 20, 2025, with the Black Legacy Project (Black LP). Produced by Music in Common, this inspiring musical event has toured seven U.S. communities, bringing together artists from diverse backgrounds to reinterpret and create songs central to the Black American experience.
Join us for an unforgettable evening featuring an extraordinary lineup, including Krishna Guthrie, Jessica Joy Harned, Everett James Harrell, Zoe Moff, Tyvaurus Owten, Ashley Rose, Jakob Schaffer, and Page Williams. Together, they will deliver powerful performances that echo the calls for change of our time.
Immerse yourself in the universal language of music, and witness the collective voices of the Black LP Experience come alive. Don’t miss this chance to be part of a nationwide movement that strengthens, empowers, and connects communities through song.
The Black Legacy Project is a musical celebration of Black history to advance racial solidarity, equity, and belonging.
Developed in the summer of 2020 and launched in September 2021, the Black Legacy Project travels the U.S. bringing together Black and White artists and artists of ALL backgrounds to record present day interpretations of songs central to the Black American experience and compose originals relevant to the pressing calls for change of our time. Community roundtable discussions help inform how these songs are interpreted and written. The project was launched with week-long residencies in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, Atlanta, Los Angeles, the Mississippi Delta, Denver, the Arkansas Ozarks, and Boise. A documentary film highlights the project and some of the many places it has traveled to. Two albums, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, feature 24 songs reimagined, written, and recorded in the project.
A touring band brings the music of the project to audiences nationwide in powerful and engaging performances. In addition to this interactive musical celebration and educational experience, the tour includes film screenings of the Black Legacy Project docuseries, community conversations, roundtable discussions, and school programs.
The Black Legacy Project is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (opportunity numbers DHS-21-TTP-132-00-99 and DHS-22-TTP-132-00-01) and a long list of national and local partners, including major funding from the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, Walmart Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Truist Foundation.
Read more about Music in Common and the Black Legacy Project here
Dominican University Performing Arts Center acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency and is partially funded by the Oak Park Area Arts Council, in partnership with the Village of Oak Park, the Illinois Arts Council Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Co-presented with the St. Catherine of Siena Center