Berklee Performance Center

This musical narrative features excerpts with Daniel Black from his book The Coming, along with compositions from Tia Fuller’s Grammy-nominated album, Diamond Cut, and performances by the Rainbow All-Stars Ensemble on the rich traditions and more contemporary portrayals of the African diaspora, firmly depicting the unrighteous capture and journey of the transatlantic slave trade. 

The 8-Bit Big Band, a 33-member jazz/pops orchestra created by Charlie Rosen, presents unprecedented “big band” performances of original arrangements of popular video game music with special guests, including Grace Kelly B.M. ’12.

The 34th annual International Folk Music Festival presents folk music from around the world performed by Berklee students and special guests.

Pianist Omar Sosa and violinist/vocalist Yilian Cañizares draw on their Afro-Cuban roots, along with Western classical music and jazz, to perform beautiful and personal music from their recent album Aguas.

Noa's new project, Letters to Bach, is composed of 12 pieces of Johann Sebastian Bach’s instrumental music, for which she has written English and Hebrew lyrics, inspired by subjects as diverse as technology, religion, global warming, feminism, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning oratorio about coal miners at the turn of the 20th century, Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields combines folk, rock, and classical genres in what the Los Angeles Times called “an unforgettably haunting, harrowing evocation of the plight of Pennsylvania’s coal miners, incorporating many musical styles and effectively shadowy visuals.”

Gala Flamenca captures the beauty, power, and passion of flamenco.

Ron Reid, a bassist, composer, and arranger, explores his groundings in Caribbean folk, kaiso rhythms, and jazz explorations with compositions and arrangements for horn quintet, rhythm section, and chamber steel ensemble.

Join Béla Fleck, the groundbreaking banjoist, composer, and bandleader, and the Flecktones, featuring pianist Howard Levy, bassist Victor Wooten, and percussionist Roy “Futureman” Wooten.