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Renovated Sunset Lounge highlighted as cultural anchor as Heart and Soul Park opens across the street
Summary
Community members and a cultural anthropologist described the renovated Sunset Lounge as a historic music venue; the nearby Heart and Soul Park, featuring a sculpture by Nikisha Durrett and musical play elements, is already open and hosting events though the lounge itself has not fully reopened.
At the newly renovated Sunset Lounge in the Historic Northwest neighborhood, cultural anthropologist Dr. Alicia Wynne said, “It’s so important because it has been here for such a long time, and it is a historic icon.”
The lounge — a mid-20th-century venue where performers including Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, James Brown, Ray Charles and Sam Cooke played during segregation-era decades — and a new public park directly across the street were the focus of a short WPB TV report on the venue’s cultural…
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