Colonial Crossroads in the Old Dutch Garden: African and European Music Meet

NJCH is proud to sponsor a presentation of music of early America at the intersection of Africa and Europe to be held at the the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage on April 27.

About the Event

Carla Lynne Hall and Jim Keyes will present music of early America at the intersection of Africa and Europe featuring Pinkster, the Dutch and African Dutch celebration of spring.

Bring your own lawn chairs or blankets for this outdoors springtime concert in the Old Dutch Garden. Imagine the restoration of the Old Dutch Garden as part of Revitalization of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites “Down the Brook” with the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association and Somerville Environmental Commission.

This program is part of a series made possible by the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association with the sponsorship of New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Admission is free. Attendees are encouraged to consider bringing a donation of supplies needed for the Food Bank Network of Somerset County: https://www.somersetfoodbank.org/about/give-supplies/.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this series do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.