What's up, Jazz Fans? Are you ready to have A Gay Old Time with the Triangle Pride Jazz Band? If so, your wait is almost over. Join us this Saturday, July 13th, 2024 at the Burning Coal Theater in Downtown Raleigh.

This season, we made an effort to represent the queer side of Jazz. Almost every piece has a queer origin: from the lyricsist, to the arranger, and even the composers themselves.

We're here, and we're queer (or allied), and we're jamming! Don't just get used to it, get down with it!

About the band:

Founded in 2016, Triangle Pride Band is an LGBTQ and ally community band program in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. We welcome all interested adults (18+), regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, or ability, to join us in lifting up our community through music!

About Burning Coal:

Originally constructed in 1908, the Murphey School auditorium served Raleigh until 1977 as an elementary school. In the summer of 1960 the Raleigh City School Board met in this auditorium and voted to begin the desegregation of the Raleigh City Schools. That fall, the first African American student to attend an historically white school in Raleigh was admitted to the Murphey School. When Wake County took over the school system, they determined that the building was too small for the city’s growing needs, and shut the building down. In 1991, a group of concerned citizens led by then Mayor Smedes York, the mayor of Raleigh at the time, and the Downtown Housing Improvement Corporation created from the classrooms a new housing facility for low-income senior citizens. But the auditorium sat empty for 31 years, until 2008, when Burning Coal was able to raise the money to renovate the old building and turn it into the state of the art facility you see today. When we began the renovation, the building had no electricity, no HVAC system, no plumbing and plenty of holes in the walls, ceiling and flooring. It was a mess. The beautiful space you see today is the result of a lot of hard work by a lot of people in the community, without whom we would never have been able to achieve this result. We are eternally grateful.

A GAY OLD TIME!

Triangle Pride Jazz Band Summer Concert