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MELROSE — On Sunday, March 2, The Opening Doors Project –– a Melrose-based organization dedicated to amplifying voices of color and advancing interracial conversations about race through the arts –– hosted a wonderful, free concert and conversation at Melrose UU Church West Emerson Street with the touring band of Black Legacy Project, a like-minded organization based out of Atlanta, GA.
Black Legacy Project is a musical celebration of Black history to advance racial solidarity, equity, and belonging. Developed in the summer of 2020 in Atlanta, GA, Black LP travels the U.S. bringing together Black and White artists to record and perform present day interpretations of songs central to the Black American experience and compose originals relevant to the pressing calls for change of our time.
Opening Doors co-founder Alastair Moock hosted the group for the concert and led a brief conversation about their work around the country and the parallels with Opening Doors’ own work here in New England. The event had 95 audience registrants who gave the group multiple standing ovations throughout the evening.
Learn more about The Opening Doors Project and their work in and around Melrose at openingdoorsproject.org.
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