No-No Boy at Ogden After Hours
Twice Southern: (selections from the No-No Boy songbook / reflections on Vietnam)
The No-No Boy concert is a multimedia event that combines original songs, storytelling and archival images to provide the audience with an immersive experience that explores difficult histories of immigration, refugees, race, empire and incarceration. By transforming his doctoral research into a concert, musician/scholar Dr. Julian Saporiti delivers a deeply researched performance that entertains as it educates, deftly blending scholarship and art and offering a model for public-facing academic work. No-No Boy has completed several national tours and released two albums (1975 and Empire Electric) on the Smithsonian Folkways Record Label.
NPR has called No-No Boy “one of the most insurgent pieces of music you’ll ever hear [that] re-examines Americana with devastating effect… an act of revisionist subversion.
For his performance at Ogden Museum, Dr. Saporiti will curate a special selection of his songs that explore the Vietnamese American experience and interact with the Hoa Tay (Flower Hands) exhibit, in which he and his wife Emilia Saporiti’s mixed media work is exhibited.
In addition to the live music, enjoy:
- Discounted tickets to Magnolia Ball
- A food pop-up
- A cash bar
- An art activity table for kids to enjoy
