A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight

"Stars from Sister Rosetta Tharpe play adapt wonderfully to the Dakota"
– Star Tribune

Bringing fierce guitar playing and swing to gospel music, Sister Rosetta Tharpe influenced rock musicians from Elvis to Jimi Hendrix and Ray Charles. Jamecia Bennett and Rajane Katurah Brown (Star Tribune “9 Artists to Watch in 2019”) present an encore tribute with the music from Park Square Theatre’s production of “Marie and Rosetta.”

Bringing fierce guitar playing and swing to gospel music, Sister Rosetta Tharpe influenced rock musicians from Elvis to Jimi Hendrix and Ray Charles. It’s easy enough to look at Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s life and conclude that her innovative, genre-bending musicianship was “ahead of its time.” Throughout her rise, she was activated by and reactive to the sanctity and secularism that marked her world.

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