The Rose Ensemble "Singing for Freedom: the Anti Slavery Campaign of the Hutchinson Family Singers"

(Performance May 3, 2015)
Commemorate the Civil War in a unique way by witnessing a story told through the music, travels and political actions of a family of 19th-century American superstars. The Hutchinson Family Singers (founders of the city of Hutchinson, Minnesota) were a group of pro-Emancipation traveling musicians as famous in their time as P.T. Barnum and Jenny Lind. One of the unheralded aspects of the Hutchinson Family Singers--and certain forms of 1840s abolitionism in general--was the cultivation of interracial friendship and social protest. The Hutchinsons were noted and decried for their performances to interracial audiences, and new research in anti-slavery music by The Rose Ensemble's Founder/Artistic Director, Jordan Sramek, provides a unique opportunity to hit the 19th-century campaign trail with such figures as Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
In spring 2015, this fully staged and costumed production enjoyed a week-long run at the Minnesota History Center. Along with singers and instrumentalists of The Rose Ensemble, "Singing for Freedom" features beloved Twin Cities artists Dan Chouinard, Maria Jette, and T. Mychael Rambo, with stage direction by Jeff Raz (Cirque du Soleil) and costume design by Aaron Chvatal.

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