Tickets: $5 per person
Most appropriate for students grades 3-12.
Important Information:
For the safety of our artists, audiences and staff, face coverings are optional but encouraged for all attendees while inside the theater. Click here for more information about our COVID safety policies.
Genre: Education
Music, Performance
Important Update
The event is being postponed to a later date. Please check back for info on the next School Day live event, etc.
If you reserved seats for this show, please contact us at [email protected] 212-531-5320.
The Apollo presents School Day Live, a program that brings the “Apollo Experience” to a new generation of theatergoers while providing an excellent opportunity to learn about the arts, history, and culture.
The performance highlights the history of the blues and the evolution of its accompanied instruments such as the guitar and banjo from the West African griot tradition, to the African American acapella spiritual tradition to work songs. Students will also learn about the blues, its origins, how its sound varies regionally, the relationship of the blues to the culture and history of Black people in America, and how the blues evolved to shape and influence other music genres such as jazz, rhythm & blues and rock & roll.
Musicians highlighted in this performance include Sister Rosetta Tharp, Elizabeth Cotten, Odetta, and Memphis Minnie. This is a multi-media presentation that features still and moving images. The Groove Diplomacy Future Music Orchestra, under the direction of drummer LaFrae Sci, is comprised of vocalists and instrumentalists.
Most appropriate for students grades 3-12.
REgistration Information
Covid-19 Guidelines
For the safety of our artists, audiences and staff, face coverings are optional but encouraged for all attendees while inside the theater. Click here for more information about our COVID safety policies.