Anacostia Neighborhood Museum: 3rd Anniversary Celebration

Object Details

Local Numbers: ACMA AV003529-1 ACMA AV003529-2 ACMA AV003530-1 ACMA AV003530-2

Creator: Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Names: Ahmad Jamal Trio; Anacostia Community Museum; Anacostia Neighborhood Museum; The Colombians; Anderson, Stanley J.; Dale, Almore; Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996; Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993; Hope, Marion Conover; Horn, Shirley; Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-; Jones, Alton; Kinard, John, 1936-1989
Collection Creator: Anacostia Community Museum

Topic: African Americans; Community museums; Museums and community; Awards; Spirituals (Songs); Choral music; Jazz; Gospel music

See more items in: Museum Events, Programs, and Projects, 1967-1989; Museum Events, Programs, and Projects, 1967-1989 / Recording of Anacostia Neighborhood Museum opening and various anniversary celebrations

Citation: Anacostia Neighborhood Museum: 3rd Anniversary Celebration, Record Group AV09-023, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Scope and Contents: On September 13, 1970, Stanley J. Anderson, Marion Hope, Alton Jones, and Almore Dale presented with Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (ANM) Founders' Awards. John Kinard announces night before Distinguished Service Awards were presented to Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie. After the presentation of his Distinguished Service Award, jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal performs with accompanists (Ahmad Jamal Trio). The trio also performs with The Colombians. The Young People's Choir of the Bethlehem Baptist Church (Anacostia) perform spirituals. A another group performs Evolution of the Black Man in Jazz which shows the changes the black man went through in music from before he came to America up until today. Other musicians perform spirituals, gospel and jazz music. Shirley Horn also performs. John Kinard speaks in celebration of the 3rd anniversay of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. He thanks the community, ANM's staff, and day's master of ceremonies, Tony Taylor. Kinard's short speech is followed by additional musical performances.; Award presentations and music. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. AV003529-1: celebration begins at 002945. AV003530-1: celebration begins at 001926. AV003529-1 and AV003530-1: content overlaps [also on recordings: Musical Performance: Public School 186 from Harlem]. AV003529-2, AV003530-1, AV003530-2, and AV003438: content overlaps. Undated.

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