The Liberty Brass Band performs a Jazz Funeral for Shakespeare by Folger Shakespeare Library published on 2021-04-29T17:42:00Z On April 23, 2016, Tulane University took New Orleans’s own unique cultural contribution, a Jazz Funeral, to the 400th Anniversary Celebration of Shakespeare’s death in Stratford-upon-Avon. In October of that same year, they recreated the event at the Folger Shakespeare Library, complete with music provided by Dr. Michael White and the Liberty Brass Band. Attendees of this free event learned about the origins and components of the Jazz Funeral, and enjoyed a performance by one of today’s primary exponents of classic New Orleans Jazz, paying homage to the greatest playwright and poet the world has known! Genre Jazz & Blues
