The Cooper Memorial Library will host three adult programs in July featuring music, lectures, and a book talk.
Thursday, July 14 – Local musician, Galen, will present a jazz music lecture entitled Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement at Cooper Memorial Library at 5:00 p.m. in Room 108. The event will feature a combined lecture and music performance chronicling the music from the turn of the century to the present day and highlighting various artists, their music, their influence on the evolution of jazz, and their struggles. In addition, it will illustrate how jazz became an advocacy for the Civil Rights Movement, with proceeds from jazz concerts used to finance major events such as the Freedom Rides and the March on Washington in 1963. The event will begin with a flute prelude performed by Galen.
Wednesday, July 20 – As part of the Cooper Concert Series, Sandy Back Porch will perform their country and blues musicat 5:30 p.m. in Room 108. Sandy Back Porch features lightning-speed guitar licks, lead vocals with wonderful harmonies, hotter-than-fire banjo leads, and flying fiddle tunes.
Thursday, July 28, at 5:30 p.m., author Mary Flynn will host her show, Confession of a Hallmark Greeting Card Writer, a hilarious, behind-the-scenes look at her time as a staff writer at Hallmark Cards.
These events are free and generously sponsored by the Friends of the Cooper Memorial Library. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.
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About Cooper Memorial Library
The Cooper Memorial Library is located at 2525 Oakley Seaver Drive, Clermont, FL 34711. For more information, please contact Robert Rose, at 352-536-2283, ext. 2255 or email at robert.rose@mylakelibrary.org.
