Montreal Jazz Festival

The show, which features a mostly-white cast performing African-American slave songs, was much protested and it caused Moses Sumney to drop off Montreal Jazz Fest.

He pulled out after learning the festival booked multiple nights of the much-protested show SLĀV, “in which a majority-white group of singers, lead by a white Québécois director, sing African-American slave songs, sometimes dressed as field slaves and cotton pickers,” Moses wrote.

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