Louis Armstrong in Black History
March 1, 2025 2:00 PM –3:00 PM
516 Macon Avenue
| Canon City, CO | 81212
Admission: Free.
Event Summary
The 2025 statewide tour will feature the living-history portrayals of Harriet Tubman by nationally acclaimed scholar/actor Becky Stone, and Louis Armstrong by scholar/actor Marvin Jefferson. This performance brings you Marvin Jefferson’s Louis Armstrong.
The portrayals will be performed in a Chautauqua format, which is a first-person dramatization of a historical figure. The speaker’s monologue typically lasts 40 minutes, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A, first in character and then out of character as the scholar/performer.
