{"id":1508,"date":"2017-03-17T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T13:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:37:50","slug":"1508-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/1508-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/Home\">HOME<\/a>\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/PR\">PR<\/a>\/ UMES hosts March 30 chamber music theatre performance<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UMES hosts March 30 chamber music theatre performance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-20-at-10.37.46-AM-1-798x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1510\" width=\"452\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-20-at-10.37.46-AM-1-798x1024.png 798w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-20-at-10.37.46-AM-1-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-20-at-10.37.46-AM-1-768x986.png 768w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-20-at-10.37.46-AM-1-1196x1536.png 1196w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-20-at-10.37.46-AM-1.png 1402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Core Ensemble performs &#8220;Ain&#8217;t I a Woman&#8221;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday, March 17, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The University of Maryland Eastern Shore plays host to a free performance, \u201cAin&#8217;t I a Woman,\u201d Thursday, March 30 by the Core Ensemble of Lake Worth, Fla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 7 p.m. chamber music theatre piece takes place at UMES&#8217; Ella Fitzgerald Center along with an 11 a.m. master class, The Business of Art, in the Richard F. Hazel Hall, room 1020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ensemble developed its signature format featuring \u201cthe marriage of theatrical narrative to chamber music performance.\u201d&nbsp; Actress Shayla Simmons portrays four African-American women of history:&nbsp; ex-slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth, novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, folk artist Clementine Hunter and civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer.&nbsp; Her narrative is accompanied by cello, piano and percussion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The music draws from spirituals and blues of the Deep South, urban Jazz Age, and contemporary concert music by African-Americans such as Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Max Roach and Diane Monroe. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Admission is free at the door.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"mailto:gcstephens@umes.edu\">Gail Stephens<\/a><\/strong><em>, assistant director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-651-7580.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOME\/&nbsp;PR\/ UMES hosts March 30 chamber music theatre performance UMES hosts March 30 chamber music theatre performance Core Ensemble performs &#8220;Ain&#8217;t I a Woman&#8221; Friday, March 17, 2017 The University of Maryland Eastern Shore plays host to a free performance, \u201cAin&#8217;t I a Woman,\u201d Thursday, March 30 by the Core Ensemble of Lake Worth, Fla&#8230;.<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/1508-2\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}