Smithsonian Institution exhibit opens in Youngstown on Tuesday

Smithsonian Institution exhibit opens in Youngstown on Tuesday

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition, “New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music,” opens 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor.

At the opening, Zach Miller, a student in Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music, will perform the music he wrote to accompany poetry written by Michael McGovern, the “Puddler Poet” and author of “Labor Lyrics and Other Poems.”

“New Harmonies” is an exhibit produced by the Smithsonian Institution and is touring Ohio in partnership with the Ohio Humanities Council. It runs through Dec. 31 at the center at 151 W. Wood St.

According to the exhibit’s curator, Robert Santelli, “New Harmonies” is about “the ongoing cultural process that has made America the birthplace of more music than any place on earth.” The exhibit examines the evolution of American genres such as folk, country, bluegrass, jazz, ethnic and religious music.

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