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...
by The Carr Center | Aug 12, 2020 | Press Releases
It’s time to hang out in Detroit’s treasures once again. That’s the message behind a gorgeous new ad boosting the city’s cultural institutions from Doner, which pulled together the one-minute-18-second commercial for the nonprofit Midtown...
by The Carr Center | Nov 22, 2019 | Press Releases
By Mark Stryker October, 2019 One winter night in 2018, the Carr Center’s Gathering Orchestra rehearsed in a storefront space in downtown Detroit. As the band of gifted students and young professionals dug into the music. Detroit’s remarkable jazz legacy resonated on...
