Black Legacy Project, a national initiative to foster racial unity, will premiere in Pittsfield

Billy Keane and Wanda Houston record their original song, “It's About More,” at The Guthrie Center in Great Barrington.

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By Felix Carroll, The Berkshire Eagle Mar 1, 2022

PITTSFIELD — Tragic events in the news two years ago got Todd Mack thinking about some of the songs — and their cultural impact — written in the 1960s by a skinny Minnesota kid who was wise beyond his years and whose voice crackled like burning thorns.

He went by the name of Bob Dylan, and many of his earlier songs, about war and racial injustice, thrust a generation into civic engagement.

Among the musicians at the Colonial will be Wanda Houston, Billy Keane, Gina Coleman, Matt Cusson, Rufus Jones and Annie Guthrie