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Legendary jazz performer and song composer Oscar Brown, Jr. will perform on Sunday, Feb. 13, from 7–9 p.m. at the Theatre Northwest in Tamarack Hall on the IU Northwest campus in Gary. The performance is free and open to the public as part of the Diversity Programming Group and in honor of Black History Month.
A prolific playwright and poet as well as a political activist, as a musician Brown is known for such songs as Work Song and Straighten Up. For the better part of half a century, he has composed songs and more than a dozen full-length theater pieces including Journey Through Forever, which deals with aging, and Great Nitty Gritty, which depicts the plight of youth in Chicago’s low-income housing developments. He was away from records altogether from 1975-1994, until returning with Then & Now for the Weasel Disc label in 1995, a disc full of both fresh remakes and new material.
He continues to work with gifted younger performers, including two of his seven offspring, son Oscar Brown III and daughter Maggie Brown, both of whom will join him on Sunday.
For more information, call 219-980-6802.
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