Turntable: Hear these new vinyl records from old jazz legends
These live performances from over 50 years ago haven't been heard since the concerts.
Music & Culture Events
-
In PersonGBH Jazz Nights featuring Anabel Gil Diaz
Come hear Cuban-Spanish flautist Anabel Gil Diaz and her ensemble bring the rhythms of Latin jazz to the BPL! -
In Person
May 2025 Outspoken Saturdays
The GBH BPL studio will host Outspoken Saturdays, a spoken word poetry event for emerging artists. Every first Saturday of the month, the series will be created in collaboration with spoken word artist Amanda Shea. Join us!
Registration is encouraged for this free event. -
Virtual
Explorers: A New History with Matthew Lockwood
Prize-winning historian Matthew Lockwood looks at the impulse to explore, the travels of Pocahontas, Columbus, Sacagawea, and Captain Cook alongside others who rightfully deserve the title of “explorers” including immigrants and fugitive slaves.
According to Lockwood, people of every background imagine new worlds. The impulse to seek new places is universal to humanity. In his new book, “Explorers,” he unfurls a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked travelers spanning forty centuries and six continents. His illustrated talk will share the stories of such seekers as David Dorr, born into slavery in New Orleans who embarked on a Grand Tour or Europe and Egypt, and the Viking female voyager Gudrid Far-Traveler, who sailed to North America in 1000 AD; among other pioneers.Partner:American Ancestors
Sign up for GBH newsletters
GBH offers several newsletters focused on the topics that matter to you.
Culture in the News
The Genius Next Door: Artist Tony Cokes uses mixed-media videos to re-contextualize history
In the last installment of our annual series, "The Genius Next Door," Tony Cokes talks about his artistic process, what inspires him and more.
-
Local Color: Four Boston-based artists who are making the city a more vivid arts hub
Open Studio with Jared Bowen looks at the work of Black artists in Boston -
As ‘Hamilton’ comes to Boston, its actors say there’s still more work to do for representation
The touring musical is at Boston’s Citizens Bank Opera House through March 12. -
Co-founder of Embrace Boston on mixed reviews for King sculpture
The new sculpture honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King was recently unveiled.
GBH Music
More Culture Programs
-
Episode 28, Season 10<br> "Being Muholi," Artist Jeffrey Gibson, and more
"Being Muholi: Portraits as Resistance," Jeffrey Gibson's "Infinite Indigenous Queer Love"| 26:46 -
Episode 6, Season 3<br> Poems about Motherhood by Sharon Olds and Bernadette Mayer
Elisa New, Emily Oster, Sharon Olds, & Bernadette Mayer explore poems on motherhood.| 25:38 -
Episode 27, Season 10<br> "Each Other," "Svadba," and Paris Alston & Jeremy Siegel
"Each Other," "Svadba," Love Stories," and Paris Alston & Jeremy Siegel| 26:46 -
Episode 5, Season 3<br> Mending Wall, by Robert Frost
Caroline Kennedy, Tracy K. Smith & more read Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” with Elisa New.| 25:21
