Daryl Davis, Blues and Boogie-Woogie Piano

The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design Liberal Arts Department invites the public on Friday, Oct. 4, to the Diverse Voices Speaker Series: The Voice and Music of Daryl Davis. At 3:30 pm Davis will share his inspiring story about his work to achieve racial harmony and his powerful blues piano playing and singing. At 6 pm, Davis presents an hourlong concert of the powerful blues and boogie-woogie piano playing that formed the spark of his race relations work. Davis sought the answer to the question How can you hate me if you don’t even know me? by interviewing Ku Klux Klan members, some of whom ended up becoming his close friends, leaving the Klan, and giving him their robes and hoods.