Live Music

Music in the Atrium: We Black Folk

Know before you go:

In-person event
Location: Main Atrium

Included with admission

This program includes live amplified music.

Join us in celebrating Black History month through music! We Black Folk shares Black folk arts and music through interactive performances.

Join us on other Sundays in February to hear from two more featured musical groups:

February 8: The A-Beez

February 15: The BEAT with Charles M. Murrell III

Music in the Atrium is PEM’s live concert series that features local and visiting performers from a variety of musical traditions and styles. Concerts take place on select Sundays from 11:30 am–1:30 pm.

About our collaborators

We Black Folk

The main goals of We Black Folk are to build a Boston-based movement for Black folk arts and to present a large-scale interactive festival that will inform, highlight and expand the re-establishment of the Black folk genre. The group is responding to community desires to offer more of this genre and to provide a platform for the historically marginalized stories and music of Black American culture to be heard and seen. We Black Folk serves multiple audiences, including (but not limited to) the general public, performing/visual artists, production professionals (e.g., audio engineers/videographers) and small businesses.

We Black Folk is a Boston-based movement encompassing interactive performances and conversations, providing platforms for marginalized stories and music of traditional Black Folk arts. With the use of archival media, they tell, showcase and archive the stories of Boston Black folk culture in efforts to preserve and unearth the often marginalized stories of this community.

@weblackfolk, @thehipstory, @bamsfest