Panel Discussion—Rondo Community Music Series

This featured artists in this discussion build a short arc across MLK weekend: Brass Solidarity's January 13 performance and panel roots the series in the immediate, local language of protest — a band born in the Twin Cities in the wake of George Floyd's M**der — while Lawrence Waddell's January 16 set reframes that same urgency through jazz's more reflective, exploratory voice. Together they trace a line from 2020's uprising to the longer civil rights legacy MLK Day commemorates, giving the series both a strong local hook and a resonant national throughline.