Grammy-winning blues artist Chris Thomas King is scheduled to present “Rhythm of Resistance” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 in the Mary and Al Danos Theater in Nicholls State University’s Talbot Hall as part of the university’s Black History Month activities.
King, a Baton Rouge native, has sold more than 10 million records in the United States and appeared as guitar legend Tommy Johnson in the 2000 film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
He will be discussing his book “The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of my Music and Culture,” which tells the story of how the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form in New Orleans in the late 19th Century before spreading globally.
The event is sponsored by the university’s speech faculty, in association with the Department of Mass Communication, the Nicholls Players and the Nicholls Black History Month Committee.
