2025 - 2025 Season
Frank’s Bugle
with Music of the Regiment & New York Baroque Dance Company
A homage to the music and dances composed and performed by Francis Johnson, a free Black man and trumpeter extraordinaire.
May 17, 2026
Details
Frank’s Bugle pays homage to the music and dances composed and performed by Francis Johnson. Hailed as the “best musicians the city can furnish,” (The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 12, 1822), Johnson was a monumental figure in American musical life from the 1820s through the 1840s.
A free Black man, the Philadelphia native witnessed the near eradication of legal slavery and mass emigration to Philadelphia from St. Domingue (modern Haiti) as a consequence of the Haitian Revolution.
Part of Soundtrack of Independence, a collaborative celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Dates & Tickets
Performers & Creatives
Music of the Regiment
Dominic Giardino, curation and clarinet, with performers of Tempesta di Mare
Justin Bland, trumpet
New York Baroque Dance Company
Justin Bland, trumpet
Program
TBD
Major funding for Soundtrack of Independence as was provided by a grant from The 2026 Fund provided through the Philadelphia Funder Collaborative for the Semiquincentennial.
