Please join us for a free lecture, Sissieretta Jones: Navigating Race Through Song, April 26, 2013, and an exhibit of materials related to Sissieretta Jones, known as the “Black Patti.” Maureen D. Lee, who wrote Sissieretta Jones: “The Greatest...
Carnegie Hall has a great blog and video this month to honor Sissieretta Jones (Black Patti). Click here to see it.
The University of South Carolina Press will release a paperback and E-edition of Sissieretta Jones: “The Greatest Singer of Her Race,” 1868-1933 on January 31, 2013. The price of the paperback is $24.95, as is the E-edition. For more information, contact...
Opera News November 2012 | Original Article By Jesse Cohen Had she lived in a later era, the African–American soprano Sissieretta Jones, dubbed to her everlasting chagrin “The Black Patti,” might well have had a major opera career — and certainly a less...
What a wonderful weekend The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society has planned to help launch my book and to celebrate the life of the great soprano Sissieretta Jones. Join us May 11-12 in Providence for this exciting celebration. Click here to see event...
The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society is raising funds to purchase an historical marker to honor the great African American soprano Sissieretta Jones. Sissieretta, born in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1868, moved to Providence in 1876, where she lived until her death in...
