The famed orchestra is one of the nation’s oldest contemporary majority African-American community orchestras; its mission is to showcase Black artists and composers while setting an example to the Black community that orchestras can include people that look like them
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DALLAS  – The African American Museum, Dallas (AAM) will present An Evening with Scott Joplin Chamber Orchestra of Houston on Saturday, April 30, 2022, at 5 p.m. at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, 1309 Canton St. in Dallas. The orchestra’s sixth Dallas appearance is in memory of revered musician, accompanist and educator Billie K. Roberts. Sponsored by the African American Museum’s Friends of Music, the event benefits the Youth Programs of the AAM. Tickets – $15 and up with a limited number of VIP tickets at $75 each – are available at the Museum and Ticketmaster.com.
Honorary co-chairs are Dean Hill, retired Dallas ISD band director, and Gloria King, retired Dallas ISD educator. The event chair is Dr. Vivian Bradley Johnson, senior vice president of clinical services for Parkland Health.

Jowanda E. Jordan Festival of Negro Spirituals, formerly Kwei-Kwei Festival of Negro Spirituals and originally named and chaired by the late Jowanda E. Jordan, will be held April 23 at 3 p.m. at Highland Park United Methodist Church, located at 3300 Mockingbird Lane.
Jordan was a charter member of the Dallas Branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians Inc. organized in 1985, now known as the Dallas Metroplex Musicians’ Association. In 2015, the music association unanimously elected to rename the festival.