Mysterious Traveler - Matthew Stewart
Music. At Free Library of Philadelphia - Central Library , 1901 Vine Street, 19103, Philadelphia. United states.
Mysterious Travelers 3: Internal Investigations - a collaboration between The Free Library of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Jazz Project. Back by overwhelming popular demand! FREE concerts every fourth Monday night from September 2016 through May 2017 audiences will hear from veteran, as well as up-and-coming musicians who are shaping the future sounds of Philadelphia with a sharp ear to the legacies of our past. This season will directly celebrate the massive and amazing collections of the Free Library by granting our performers access to explore them as a source of inspiration for the creation of new musical works and arrangements
Matthew Stewart is a Wilmington, Delaware-based trumpeter. A student of legendary trumpeter Donald Byrd, Stewart works with Sonic Liberation Front, and The Wilmington Creative Music Collective. He performed with PJP’s Another Holiday For Skins ensemble and participated in Lush Life: Philadelphia Celebrates Billy Strayhorn as part of the OutBeat Jazz Festival. He also served as music director for PJP’s Ted Curson Tribute Ensemble, Quicksand. Matthew Stewart has also toured the world with the band, Streetlight Manifesto and attended New Jersey City University.
Matthew Stewart will be performing a musical work that tells the story of the Freedman's Bureau, which was established in 1865 by The U.S. Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. This concert will shed light on it and the people it was intended to help.
Mysterious Traveler 3 Concert Series
February 13, 2017 - 7PM | Matthew Stewart
Parkway Central Library | Montgomery Auditorium
1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-1189
*All events in this series are FREE.