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Animated barnyard animals perform on jazz instruments. From left to right we see Mules Davis, Acoustic Rooster, Ella Finchgerald, Duck Ellington and 'Lil Herdin

'Acoustic Rooster' brings jazz to GBH Kids

Mark McLean, composer for the new series based on the beloved book by Kwame Alexander, tells GBH Music's Jazz on 89.7 hosts Al Davis and Va Lynda Robinson about his tunes and the inspiration behind them.
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    May 2025 Outspoken Saturdays

    2:00pm Sat, May 17, 2025
    The GBH BPL studio will host Outspoken Saturdays, a spoken word poetry event for emerging artists. Every first Saturday of the month, the series will be created in collaboration with spoken word artist Amanda Shea. Join us!

    Registration is encouraged for this free event.
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    Explorers: A New History with Matthew Lockwood

    6:00pm Wed, May 28, 2025
    Prize-winning historian Matthew Lockwood looks at the impulse to explore, the travels of Pocahontas, Columbus, Sacagawea, and Captain Cook alongside others who rightfully deserve the title of “explorers” including immigrants and fugitive slaves.

    According to Lockwood, people of every background imagine new worlds. The impulse to seek new places is universal to humanity. In his new book, “Explorers,” he unfurls a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked travelers spanning forty centuries and six continents. His illustrated talk will share the stories of such seekers as David Dorr, born into slavery in New Orleans who embarked on a Grand Tour or Europe and Egypt, and the Viking female voyager Gudrid Far-Traveler, who sailed to North America in 1000 AD; among other pioneers.
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    The Ulysses Quartet at The Boston Public Library (May 2025)

    12:00pm Thu, May 29, 2025
    Join GBH Music's quartet in residence, the Ulysses Quartet, for a performance at the Boston Public Library!
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Devo member Mark Mothersbaugh tosses one of the band's iconic "energy dome" red hats off stage.

Devo at 50: ‘We're like the house band on the Titanic at this point’

Devo's 50th anniversary tour called "50 Years of De-Evolution… Continued!" is headed to Boston on May 9.
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    Tune in to GBH Music's Jazz on 89.7 on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays starting at 9pm.

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