Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane With Author Andy Beta and Harmony Holiday

author profiles with book cover, "Cosmic Music"
Sat, Aug 8 2026
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Central Library, Art Department, Upper 2nd Floor

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About the Event

Join the Art Department for a celebration of Andy Beta's newly published Cosmic Music, an in-depth biography of the jazz harpist, singer, composer and spiritual leader, Alice Coltrane. 

Joining Beta will be writer, dancer, and filmmaker Harmony Holiday, author of Maafa, A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom, and others.

For disability-related accommodations, please call (213) 228-7430 at least five business days prior to the event.

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