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Wynton Marsalis and Ken Burns: Country Music at Rose Theater
Courtesy of Jazz at Lincoln Center | Posted on March 15, 2018
Where
Rose Theater
33 West 60th Street
New York, NY
Map
212-258-9800
When
Thu, April 25, 2019
8:00 pm
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About
Iconic documentarian Ken Burns and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis explore the shared roots found throughout American music. With never-before-seen clips from Burns’ upcoming Country Music series, audiences will learn the fascinating and often intertwined histories of songs made famous by Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, Hank Williams, Vince Gill, Rhiannon Giddens, Stephen Foster, DeFord Bailey, Jimmie Rodgers, and others—and then hear brand-new arrangements of those songs written and performed by the JLCO....