Local Bastropian and jazz musician Hannibal Lokumbe will present excerpts from his new book Spiritual Soundscapes of Music, Life, and Liberation on Saturday, November 16th at 6:00 p.m. in the Tough Cookie Bakery location on Main Street. This event will include a performance, an opportunity for questions, and a book signing.

Hannibal Lokumbe: Spiritual Soundscapes of Music, Life, and Liberation by Lauren Coyble Rosen and Hannibal Lokumbe is a captivating, vital portrait and spiritual biography of Lokumbe. For Lokumbe, music is a profound source of spiritual liberation.  

A pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician, he composes resonant works that give voice to the freedom struggle of the African diaspora, the broader African American experience, Indigenous histories, and humanity.  

Many of his works address historical traumas, such as the Middle Passage, the Vietnam War, global environmental disharmony, and targeted racial violence, and focus on major figures, including Medgar Evers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Dr. Kim Phúc Phan Th?, and Anne Frank.  

This innovative book demonstrates that Lokumbe’s musical compositions, created in collaboration with his ancestors, are multisensorial spiritual soundscapes that aspire to chronicle, heal, and liberate.