BELMONT — Belmont Historical Society along with the NH Humanities-to-Go will be hosting a program titled, “Rally ‘Round the Flag: The American Civil War Through Folksong” that will be presented by Marek Bennett, an award-winning cartoonist and musician on Tuesday, Sept. 19.
Bennett will provide an overview of the American Civil War through the lens of period music. Audience members are welcome to participate and sing along as the presenter explore lyrics, documents and visual images from sources such as the Library of Congress. Through camp songs, parlor music, hymns, battlefield rallying cries and fiddle tunes, Bennett examines the folksong as a means to enact living history, share perspectives, influence public perceptions of events and simultaneously fuse and conserve cultures in times of change.
Showcasing various instruments, the presenter, along with the audience, will consider possible new connections between song, art and politics in American history. The program will be held at the Belmont Mill (rear entrance), 14 Mill St., at 7 p.m. This free program, which is sponsored by NH Humanities-to-Go along with the Belmont Historical Society, is open to the public and is handicapped accessible.
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