This performance by award-winning trumpeter Abram Wilson and a 10-piece band celebrates the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, credited with the first performance of African American music in Britain in 1873.
This event is part of a programme of events marking the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. Full details www.nmm.ac.uk/23August.
Official Website: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/23August
Added by salmond on July 31, 2008