Music For Maternity

Ysaye Barnwell didn’t plan to end up in Ferguson. Her vocal workshop was supposed to be held in nearby St. Louis, but it was going to conflict with St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and had to be moved. And so the Washington singer and composer found herself in mid-March in the headline-making Missouri city that had been on her mind for weeks. Before there was Baltimore, there was Ferguson, and she had found an aspect of the protests there puzzling.
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