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April 2026
03apr10:00 am6:00 pmRing Shout: Practice, Resilience, and Transmission in PlaceA Symposium
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Ring Shout: Practice, Resilience, and Transmission in Place A Symposium Friday, April 3rd, 2026 10am
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Ring Shout: Practice, Resilience, and Transmission in Place
A Symposium

Friday, April 3rd, 2026 10am
Buell Hall, East Gallery
515 West 116th Street at Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Free and open to everyone, but registration is required. Please CLICK HERE to register
This one-day symposium approaches ring shout as living practice and as method, a way of thinking through tradition, mediation, and meaning in Black music without separating sound from the social worlds that sustain it. The day is built to move, not just to speak, beginning with questions that are both conceptual and practical, tuned to spirituality, dance, and the social work of embodied tradition: How does a form travel across generations without being flattened into shorthand? What holds, and what changes, when it passes through places, microphones, and memories? The day culminates in a live workshop and demonstration by led by members of the McIntosh County Shouters. Throughout, the symposium returns to cultural resilience and transmission, and to ring shout’s capacity to carry place with it—audible even at a distance. Participants include Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Rutgers University Camden; Whitney Slaten, Bard College; Eric Crawford, Morehouse College; yaTande Whitney V. Hunter, Temple University; Candace Miller, The Wallace Foundation; and members of the McIntosh County Shouters. The symposium will come to a close at 6 pm. Attendees are encouraged to continue their evening at a formal concert by the McIntosh County Shouters at Miller Theatre at 7:30 pm.
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Time
April 3, 2026 10:00 am - 6:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
Buell Hall, East Gallery
515 West 116th Street
03apr7:30 pmThe McIntosh County ShoutersIn Concert
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Friday, April 3rd, 2026 7:30pm Miller Theatre 2960 Broadway at West 116th Street New
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Friday, April 3rd, 2026 7:30pm
Miller Theatre
2960 Broadway at West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
Free and open to everyone, but registration is required. Please CLICK HERE to register
The McIntosh County Shouters are the principal exponents—and one of the last active practitioners—of the ring shout, one of the oldest African American performance traditions surviving in America
Rooted in the Gullah Geechee communities of coastal Georgia, where the ring shout endures as a community-rooted sacred practice, they have carried this tradition to major festivals and concert stages across the Eastern seaboard, including the National Black Arts Festival, the National Folk Festival at Wolf Trap, the Kennedy Center, and the Library of Congress Homegrown Concert Series.
Their performances weave call-and-response singing, hand clapping, a stick beat on the floor, and a signature counterclockwise dance.
They have made landmark recordings on Smithsonian Folkways, and their work has been featured in numerous PBS documentaries, as well as HBO’s “Unchained Memories” and Oxygen’s “Who Needs Hollywood?”
Named NEA Master Artists in 2008, recognitions include the NEA National Heritage Fellowship and the Governor’s Award in the Humanities.
This concert is presented by the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, which will also present a one-day symposium on the ring shout, featuring a workshop by members of the Shouters.
To support Jazz Studies and our activities, Please visit the Columbia Giving site HERE
Time
April 3, 2026 7:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
09apr5:00 pmNext Gen Jazz Festival: Celebrating Emerging Voices in JazzCurated by Ethan DiPietro
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Next Gen Jazz Fest: Celebrating Emerging Voices in Jazz
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Next Gen Jazz Fest:
Celebrating Emerging Voices in Jazz
Curated by Ethan DiPietro
Thursday, April 9 • 5-11 PM
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (58 7th Ave, Brooklyn)
Co-presented by BKCM and the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and curated by Ethan DiPietro this gathering of professional musicians, students, and educators is dedicated to building community and supporting emerging voices in jazz through participatory workshops, interdisciplinary discussions, and exploratory performances.
Tickets are available HERE.
For more information about the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, please visit their Website.
Time
April 9, 2026 5:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
58 Seventh Avenue
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Dead Air: Jazz, Breath and Ghosts In this collaborative talk, we consider the improvisatory
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Dead Air: Jazz, Breath and Ghosts
In this collaborative talk, we consider the improvisatory practice of emplaced disembodiment known as “haunting.” What does it mean to haunt, and be haunted by, the charismatic lofts and jazz clubs of the past? How is the resolute “nowness”
of musicking complicated by the unknowable histories it draws upon and the phantasmic futures it projects? What literal and figurative atmospheres blow through this music? Join us for a conversation with Ben Ratliff and J. Martin Daughtry.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 6pm
Casa Hispanica
612 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027
Free and open to everyone but registration is recommended. To register for the conference CLICK HERE.
For more information about the Center for Jazz Studies and to support our activities,
please visit jazz.columbia.edu or call 212-851-9270.
Time
April 14, 2026 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
Columbia University Casa Hispanica
612 West 116th St.
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Music and Jazz Discourse at The Bollinger Forum Featuring The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program Monday,
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Music and Jazz Discourse at The Bollinger Forum
Featuring
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program
Monday, April 27, 2026 6pm
Lee C. Bollinger Forum
601 West 125th Street, New York, NY 10027
The evening’s event features a student jazz performance alongside a brief conversations, mini-talk, or Q&A’s about jazz, its history, and the unique places where it is performed. The series opens on January 26, with a night of vibrant jazz by students from Columbia’s Jazz Performance program, introduced by Dr. Tom Wetmore, Director of Columbia’s Center for Jazz Studies, who will briefly discuss the Center’s spring programming and introduce the music series”
This event is free and open to everyone but registration is required. Please CLICK HERE to register.
For more information about the Center for Jazz Studies and to support our activities,
please visit jazz.columbia.edu or call 212-851-9270.
Time
April 27, 2026 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
Location
Columbia University The Lee Bollinger Forum
605W.125TH STREET
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