Kente Arts with Anqwenique, LaKeisha Wolf, & BusCrates at Alphabet City - Northside

Live and Online

Vocalist Anqwenique, who will share the stage with spoken word artist LaKeisha Wolf. 

Before the concert, the first hour of this program will act as a welcome period, with a set by local Pittsburgh DJ, BusCrates. The concert and livestream will begin at 6:30. 

Aaron J Johnson, Charles Mingus

Aaron J. Johnson is Assistant Professor and Interim Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Pittsburgh where he studies and teaches jazz, funk, film music, and MIR (music information retrieval). He studies social aspects of how music is produced, organized, and presented, the efforts of musicians to counter powerful institutional forces, and how musicians use media of all kinds. A professional jazz musician born and raised in Washington, D.C. during the apex of the Chocolate City era, he has electrical engineering degrees from Carnegie Mellon (BSEE) and Georgia Tech (MS) and a PhD in Music from Columbia University. He plays trombone, tuba, bass clarinet, and conch shells.