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Library to Celebrate Black History Month with Music, Films

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Catherine Russell

Black History Month, or National African American History Month, honors the achievements of black Americans and recognizes the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. To celebrate, Greenwich Library will present a series of film and music events in the Cole Auditorium.

Greenwich Library’s Peterson Concert Series will host musician and vocalist Catherine Russell on Sunday, Feb. 4 at 3:30 p.m. in the Cole Auditorium. Russell is a native New Yorker, born into musical royalty.

A graduate of American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Russell has toured the world, performing and recording with David Bowie, Steely Dan, Cyndi Lauper, Jackson Browne, Wynton Marsalis and many others, appearing on over 200 albums. She has performed on four continents, and has been a hit on major jazz festivals around the world. In 2012 Russell won a Grammy Award for her appearance as a featured artist on the soundtrack album for the HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire.

The Peterson Concert Series is open to all at no charge. Doors open at 3 p.m. For more information contact Peterson Music Librarian David Waring at dwaring@greenwichlibrary.org or call 203-622-7917.

The Friends Friday Film Series will present three films in recognition of Black History Month.

On Friday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. the Library will screen Belle (Great Britain 2013) in which the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of a British admiral plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in 18th Century England.

On Friday, Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. the Library will show Oscar nominated Loving (2016) a drama about an interracial couple who married in a small integrated Virginia town in 1958 and were then jailed and banished from the state.

On Friday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. the Library will show Fences (2016), a film based on the play by August Wilson about an embittered Pittsburgh sanitation worker who missed his chance at playing major league baseball and now tries to squash his son’s similar ambitions.

Admission is open to all at no charge. Showtime is 8 p.m. Doors of the Cole Auditorium open at 7:40 p.m. Call 203-622-7910 for more information.

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