Boldly original trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist and composer Wadada Leo Smith brings his soul-searching Civil Rights tribute Ten Freedom Summers to New Orleans. Paying homage to heroes such as Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this will be the first time this epic work, for which Smith was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, has been performed in the South. Thanks to a generous grant from Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the New Orleans performance represents Part 3 in a 3-part Southern Tour of this Pulitzer Prize nominated work. Part 2 in Houston on Oct. 13 and Part 2 in Austin, TX on Oct. 12.