Lunch with the Libraries: Celebrating Ethel Ennis, Baltimore's First Lady of Jazz

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Join Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson, Inheritance Baltimore curatorial fellow for Africana collections, and Tonika Berkley, Africana archivist, for a virtual introduction to the exhibition Ethel's Place: Celebrating Ethel Ennis, Baltimore's First Lady of Jazz. This landmark retrospective devoted to Baltimore jazz vocalist Ethel Ennis (1932-2019) features photographs, unpublished written arrangements, posters, and audiovisual recordings drawn from the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries' Ethel Ennis and Earl Arnett Collection. Explore the singer's remarkable life and pioneering career path deeply rooted in her hometown.

Please attend the event by using the Hopkins at Home link.

Ethel's Place: Celebrating Ethel Ennis, Baltimore's First Lady of Jazz is on view in the George Peabody Library Exhibit Gallery from Oct. 22, 2023, to March 31, 2024.