“Don’t Expect Much More” – from Promised Land: a Voting Rights Folk Opera
Format: OctavoSoprano Solo, Banjo Anna unpacks the stark realities of living as a black woman in a pre-Civil War free state that still practices voter suppression and tolerates racism. Promised Land: a Voting Rights Folk Opera – In the 1850s, abolitionist Gerrit Smith (with John Brown, Frederick Douglass and others) gave away over 120,000 acres…
