The Murder Ballad Project
Sun, Mar 08
|First Church Middletown UCC
On March 8th, 2020, International Women’s Day, will feature a concert of solely women performers playing murder ballads, and also offering songs of empowerment and hope.
Time & Location
Mar 08, 2020, 4:00 PM
First Church Middletown UCC, 190 Court St, Middletown, CT 06457, USA
About the event
Please visit their Facebook Event page and RSVP to this free performance. This event is made possible with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts, which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
"On March 8th, 2020, International Women’s Day, we will hold a concert of solely women performers playing murder ballads, and also offering songs of empowerment and hope. The concert will take place at First Church, UCC in Middletown, CT. Murder ballads are part of the ballad tradition, and they typically involve a gruesome murder. Overwhelmingly, the victim in these songs is female. Many of these traditional ballads are based on true stories, with a man, who was usually either married or of a higher social status than the woman, killing his pregnant lover. Omie Wise and Pearl Bryan are famous examples of this narrative.