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Tuesday Night Summer Socials: Jesse Maclaine, and "The Curious Case of the Mother Hubbard"
Join the Center for Colorado Women's History every Tuesday evening in June, July, and August! We will be open late until 7:00 PM to enjoy free live music and company in our gardens. From 5:00 - 7:00 PM, Jesse Mclaine will offer a free live performance in the museum gardens outside (weather permitting).
From 5:30 - 6:30 PM, "The Curious Case of the Mother Hubbard" will be presented by Ann Sneesby-Koch inside. Program tickets include General Admission benefits. Capacity is limited, so pre-reservation of tickets is encouraged. Redemption of your pre-reserved ticket includes a discount code to apply to Bloomers Tour admission at a later date.
Interested in our exhibition tour? During Tuesday Night Summer Socials guests can purchase tickets to a docent-led Bloomers Tour. Tours begin at 5:30 PM. Register for the Bloomers Tour here!
About our partners:
Jesse Maclaine is an incredibly versatile singer, pianist, songwriter, and bandleader with decades of experience as a professional musician. Often compared to Tori Amos and Regina Spektor, Jesse Maclaine performs a variety of original songs and classics from the last 100 years of popular music. Her piano and mezzo soprano centered pop-rock, cool jazz, edgy folk, and soulful New Orleans influences are a powerful combination of familiar yet unique sounds. Listeners are delighted by her radiant presence, earthy authenticity, innovative approach and passionate concerts. Music performance presented in collaboration with Athena Project.
Ann Sneesby-Koch is an Archives Collections Specialist at History Colorado. Her research and writing interests include the social history of sex work in the 19th-century American West, especially as it was reported in the popular tabloids and local newspapers of the time. The Mother Hubbard dress, once popularly supposed to indicate girlishness and innocence in the wearer, curiously became the object of much consternation in the 1880s and 1890s. It was considered by some as “improper, indecent and demoralizing,” so much so that women faced arrest for sporting this otherwise unassuming garment. Drawing on newspaper accounts from the day, Ann Sneesby-Koch will discuss how the modest Mother Hubbard dress gained notoriety and was associated with women involved in sex work.
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2509195-0
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