This Epic GriotSong, takes us on a dramatic odyssey with two anonymous slaves running to catch the Freedom Train, where at journey’s end they hope to find liberation. Generation after generation, these determined travelers, with dangerous crows circling around them, roam through fields holding their dead; step over graves of the once enslaved; walk across beds of red, white, and blue flowers, all for the opportunity to one day march on the green lawns of democracy. Throughout their entangled journey, they meet imaginary and mythological characters. But it is down by the riverside where their belief that a time of change will come is affirmed by engagements with “giants” such as Frederick Douglass, Billie Holiday, Hank Aaron, Sojourner Truth, and Rosa Parks.
The Children of Children Keep Coming is strung seamlessly together — by poetry and prose, blues and gospel, hymns and jazz, work songs and prayers — forcing the universal harmony of the cry for freedom and justice to reach an unforgettable pitch that cannot be ignored.
Performances
Jan 29 – Friday at 8:00pm | Jan 30 – Saturday at 8:00pm | Jan 31- Sunday at 3:00pm | Feb 3 – Wednesday at 7:30pm | Feb 4 – Thursday at 7:30pm | Feb 5 – Friday at 8:00pm | Feb 6 – Saturday at 8:00pm
Duke Energy Theater at Spirit Square
345 N. College St. Charlotte, NC 28202
Tickets
Tickets are $28 general admission.
Group rates also available, $15 (for 10 or more).
***$18 Seniors (65 and older), $12 Students with a valid id (only available 2 hours before show)***
All Tickets available by calling box office at 704-372-1000 or go online to www.carolinatix.org
Read the review of opening night by Q City Metro here.
