by The Carr Center | Oct 7, 2021 | Press Releases
Detroit’s Carr Center marks its 30th anniversary this season, returning from a nearly two-year hiatus from live performance and a focus on “the new.” “We never focused on when we might reopen,” said Carr Center President and CEO Oliver Ragsdale Jr. “We focused on what...
by The Carr Center | Oct 3, 2021 | Press Releases
Carr Center staffers were scoping out their new digs in Midtown Detroit when they had an “accident by divine order,” as director Oliver Ragsdale put it. At the Park Shelton on Woodward, the long-running Black arts organization had secured a former retail space to be...
by The Carr Center | Feb 25, 2021 | Press Releases
As a woman in jazz, Terri Lyne Carrington has spent her long, storied career notching milestones and breaking boundaries. Now, the much-decorated drummer says she’s out to challenge an entire system. Carrington, the Boston-born sensation and long-distance artistic...
by The Carr Center | Feb 1, 2021 | Press Releases
NEW YORK (AP) — Terri Lyne Carrington is just 11 years old and hanging backstage at a concert hall with her friend “Ella” — that’s Ella Fitzgerald to us mere mortals — and the jazz legend wants to introduce her to jazz virtuoso Oscar Peterson, who had just finished...
by The Carr Center | Nov 25, 2020 | Press Releases
RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCEMichigan-based filmmakers and content creators summon the arts, Black bodies and African-based spirituality in addressing the dual pandemics of systemic racism and COVID-19. This program is presented in collaboration with the Detroit...
by The Carr Center | Sep 23, 2020 | Press Releases
Detroit’s Carr Center is about to blow your mind. At noon Friday, the venerable African-American cultural center and gallery will unveil its answer to COVID-19 on its YouTube channel with a tour of its brand-new Carr Virtual Center, a dazzling online platform...
