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End 2020 on a high note with Urban Carnevale virtual music festival

FIRSTWORKS Connecting Art with Audiences
Join us December 30, 5-8 PM for a virtual music festival for your soul, livestreamed to your living room!
Register now for free tickets
Featuring Rhode Island’s greatest musicians, artists and performers and headlined by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis!
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis

Curated by FirstWorks and hosted by “Lady J” Jess Brown, Urban Carnevale is a three-hour live streaming event to move, entertain and challenge us as we embrace America’s diverse artistic traditions.

The performance finale features the legendary Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with The Democracy! Suite. As we face a new year together, we invite you to be inspired and uplifted by the full vigor, vision, and depth of America’s music.

Check out the full lineup and register for your free ticket here

This program is free thanks to generous, arts-loving supporters like YOU! Please help us continue lifting all Rhode Islanders through the arts with your donation today.

During the month of December, all gifts will be matched by a generous donor. Give today and your gift is worth TWICE AS MUCH.

Nitin Mitta
Syncopated Ladies
NOVA ONE Roz Raskin
Black Violin
FirstWorks thanks and acknowledges Rhode Island Commerce for the HArT ESR Award which provided support to make this virtual programming possible and employ dozens of local creatives.
Daniel Bernard Roumain
Fidel Nadal
Sidy Maiga and Oumou Sangare
Becky Bass