Library hosts humanities program
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POLSON — North Lake County Public Library will host the Montana Conversations program, “American Art and American Democracy: It All Comes Together in Jazz,” with musician Wilbur Rehmann on Wednesday, March 8. The program will be held in the library meeting room at 5:30 p.m. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Wilbur Rehmann believes America is the only place where the art form called jazz could have been created. He begins his presentation by describing the roots of jazz in the field hollers and work songs of slaves, and in early religious singing. He follows the art form through to the modern jazz era of the ‘40s, ‘50s, ‘60s, and beyond, illustrating points with examples from recordings, his own saxophone playing, and video footage.
Rehmann has been playing jazz for nearly 50 years and has led his own jazz groups for the last 20 years. He conducts workshops on jazz history and jazz improvisation in schools across Montana and for the Holter Museum in Helena, where he lives.
Funding for the Montana Conversations program is provided by Humanities Montana through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Montana’s Cultural Trust, private donations, and the North Lake County Library Foundation. For more information, please call North Lake County Public Library at 406-883-8225 or stop by the circulation desk at #2 First Ave. E. in Polson.
