TODAY · All day
Rise: Songs of Resistance and Resilience by Jill Anderson
BLUEBARN Theatre · Old Market · $47
TODAY · 7:30pm
BLUEBARN Theatre to Present: RISE: Songs of Resistance and Resilience by Jill Anderson
Saturday, October 3 at BLUEBARN Theatre, Omaha
About this event
Experience an outdoor production celebrating music’s power to inspire change. “Rise: Songs of Resistance and Resilience” travels across genres, eras and social movements, using song to explore freedom, perseverance and the power of voices raised together.
Who's playing
“Rise: Songs of Resistance and Resilience” is written and directed by Jill Anderson for BLUEBARN Theatre, with musical arrangement by Jeanne Cahill and music direction by Jesse Wohlman. (bluebarn.org)
What to expect
Expect an outdoor, song-centered production that traces music’s role in resistance and resilience across many genres, eras and moods. Public event materials describe a journey from spirituals and songs connected to bondage through anthems tied to suffrage, labor, gay and civil rights movements, all centered on freedom, dignity, hope and belonging. (events.humanitix.com)
Why go
For Omaha audiences, “Rise” offers a chance to see BLUEBARN Theatre frame social history through music rather than a single style or period. The production treats collective singing as a way to remember struggle, honor perseverance and imagine change through voices raised together. (bluebarn.org)
Where
BLUEBARN Theatre · 1106 S 10th St · Old Market, Omaha NEOpen in Maps
