Music, history, and the iconic voice of Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman will collide at the Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage in Central Park on Wednesday, Aug. 27, for Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience — a journey into the genre’s development in the Mississippi Delta and beyond.

The experience, narrated by Freeman, features Austrian composer Martin Gellner at the helm, conducting Vienna’s Big Island Orchestra alongside veterans of Delta Blues for an evening that explores and expands on the history of the genre that laid its fertile roots in much of contemporary culture and history as we know it today.

Freeman, who is well-known for acting but somewhat less for his relationship to music, was not overtly passionate about the blues when younger, despite gro

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