Provincetown Playhouse has hosted which bass singer who was involved with the Civil Rights Movement?
1104fbae7d9e71eef3c61d144556c765
Provincetown Playhouse The Provincetown Playhouse is a historic theatre at 133 MacDougal Street between West 3rd and West 4th Streets in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is named for the Provincetown Players, who converted the former bottling plant into a theater in 1918. The original players were Eugene O’Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Djuna Barnes. Paul Robeson performed at the theatre, and E. E. Cummings had his plays performed in the building. Bette Davis and Claudette Colbert made their New York stage debuts in the facility.
c101fbcacaa79224de52d50cdab85f3a
Paul Robeson Paul Leroy Robeson (pronounced ; April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass singer and actor who became involved with the Civil Rights Movement. At Rutgers College, he was an outstanding American football player, and then had an international career in singing, with a distinctive, powerful, deep bass voice, as well as acting in theater and movies. He became politically involved in response to the Spanish Civil War, fascism, and social injustices. His advocacy of anti-imperialism, affiliation with communism, and criticism of the United States government caused him to be blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
50396afe48c1a80816c0f669d42c2cd2
George McCurn George McCurn (born January 21, 1920 in Chicago – September 1985) was a bass singer who started off singing gospel and switched to pop in the 1960s. He had a hit in 1963 with "I'm Just A Country Boy".
fe4069e573b9c6f4f349da123c927064
Kenny Aaronson Kenny Aaronson (born April 14, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American bass guitar player. He has recorded and performed with several notable artists, such as Billy Idol, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and Hall and Oates.
bca93f2c59b32bcf82ad8b287a78d99c
Pearly Brown Reverend (or, Blind) Pearly Brown (August 18, 1915June 28, 1986) was an American singer and guitarist, known primarily as a street performer. He also played harmonica and accordion. His repertoire included gospel blues, blues, country, and what he called "slave songs" (i.e. spirituals); but always from a religious standpoint.
b1c6ddfe6f09b607effdc534919eb586
Songs of Freedom (TV series) Songs of Freedom is a Canadian performing arts documentary series, which aired on Vision TV in 2015. Starring opera singer Measha Brueggergosman and produced to celebrate Black History Month, the series consisted of a 90-minute live concert special of Brueggergosman performing a program of African-American spiritual songs, followed by a four-part documentary series about Brueggergosman exploring her African heritage.
59cd8cca6a5b7fc970fdbe365739be6a
Montgomery bus boycott The Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, "Browder v. Gayle", took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional. Many important figures in the Civil Rights Movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.
c02974fc094581dd07ec77cd66b12cab
Big Bill Broonzy Big Bill Broonzy (June 26, 1893 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s, when he played country blues to mostly African-American audiences. Through the 1930s and 1940s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with working-class African-American audiences. In the 1950s a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revival and an international star. His long and varied career marks him as one of the key figures in the development of blues music in the 20th century.
9b7d4ab0df0071b1fda063161a94b949
Big Boy Henry Richard Leslie Henry (born May 26, 1921 – December 5, 2004), better known as Big Boy Henry, was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. His most notable recording was "Mr. President", a protest against cuts in social welfare undertaken by President Ronald Reagan. It won Henry a W. C. Handy Award.
b12dd1373633679b5d44ca0e266801c8
Charles Burrell (musician) Charles "Charlie" Burrell (born 1920) is a classical and jazz bass player most prominently known for being the first African-American to be a member of a major American symphony (the San Francisco Symphony). For this accomplishment he is often referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of Classical Music".
5e905f987d1057ad6d665de18fb15739
Clark Gayton Clark Gayton is an American multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer and musicians' rights advocate.
2dbda99527720dcc4276c48b1e0c9e24
John Bass (politician) John Bass (July 18, 1926 – March 25, 2007) was an American boxer, schoolteacher, school principal, and Democratic politician from St. Louis, Missouri, who served in the Missouri State Senate from 1981 to 1991.
ef2ce341eec7ca2b64044dd593b08c44
C. T. Vivian Cordy Tindell Vivian, usually known as C. T. Vivian (born July 30, 1924), is a minister, author, and was a close friend and lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement. Vivian continues to reside in Atlanta, Georgia and most recently founded the C. T. Vivian Leadership Institute, Inc. He is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
0713b4344200dae2161f985516cc1144
Timmy Shaw Jake Hammonds (or Hammond) Jr. (September 13, 1938 – March 29 or 30, 1984), who used the name Timmy Shaw, was an African American R&B singer who recorded in the 1960s.
29f6acd9e111d2f4da5fbf950ea5630f
Charles Neblett Charles "Chuck" Neblett (born 1941) is a civil rights activist best known for helping to found and being a member of The Freedom Singers.
939494d70223410a0001e1373223f1a8
Fay Bellamy Powell Fay D. Bellamy Powell (May 1, 1938 – January 5, 2013) was an African-American civil rights activist.
cb9d9d1e8f528d037b763e6dd466e760
Miriam Makeba Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), also known as Mama Africa, was a South African singer, actor, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa.
9a9ca08cd6d4011facfd1f89d2137262
Harpdog Brown Harpdog Brown (born 28 January 1962) is an award-winning Canadian vocalist and harmonica player who has been active in Canada's blues scene since 1982. His distinguished musical career was so honoured by the Maple Blues Awards in 2014, for harmonica player of the year. The Maple Blues Awards are Canada's equivalent of The Blues Music Award formerly the W. C. Handy Awards that take place yearly in Memphis, Tennessee. In that same year, he was also honoured with a lifetime membership to the Hamilton Blues Society.
6b1d847759a8e8512aa4e9b712a6e7c7
François Clemmons François Scarborough Clemmons (born April 23, 1945) is an African-American singer, actor, playwright and university lecturer. He is perhaps best known for his appearances on the PBS television series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" throughout the 1970s.
3172c58e64c9eb6c1c3e19b8d919ae06
Brad Howell Bradley Howell (born January 3, 1944) is an American keyboardist, pianist and singer best known for his role as one of the real singers behind Milli Vanilli.
b66e2cd23f59acbaa08c171d8f154155
Viola McCoy Viola McCoy (c. 1900 – c. 1956) was an African-American blues singer who performed in the classic female blues style during a career that lasted from the early 1920s to the late 1930s.
74e9d6defc94e87728e7a1b3e0e910ba
Madeline Wheeler Murphy Madeline Wheeler Murphy (October 24, 1922 – July 8, 2007) was a well known African-American community activist, civil rights champion, advocate for the poor, and panelist on the Baltimore television show "Square Off".