Name: Martin Luther King Jr Day Concert
Start: 2025-01-19T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-19T18:00:00-05:00
Location: St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Hebron, CT

Join us for a special concert featuring African American composers from the 19th, 20th and 21st century. Music will be performed by the Andante Strings.
The concert most especially features Sawney Freeman, an enslaved person who escaped and came to CT. He composed in the early 1800s. His music was discovered after more than 200 years of being lost in the archives at Trinity College in Hartford. Anthony Pandolfe, music director at St. John's Essex and band director at Edwin O. Smith High School found it and arranged it for strings. Sawney may be one of the earliest African American composers in the country.
The concert will be followed by a panel discussion and hors d'oeuvres.
Registration is requested. Donations encouraged: $20 for adults and $5 for youth.