UConn Kubatana
DISEASE: Sound, Stigma, Salvation
UConn Kubatana will be performing their Spring 2026 concert on April 24th at 7:30pm in von der Mehden Recital Hall.
DISEASE: Sound, Stigma, Salvation explores humanity’s musical responses to disease and pandemics across centuries and cultures, whether mourning the dead, challenging stigma, sharing public health knowledge, and offering hope. By engaging with key musical repertories and testimony from around the world, we explore how different worldviews shape how disease is perceived and received, and how through music we seek upliftment and salvation for humankind in times of momentous crises and suffering.
About Kubatana
Kubatana: Vocal Ensemble, UConn’s exciting global music vocal ensemble directed by Dr. Janie Cole, brings to life the musical cultures of different communities, geographical locations, or time periods from around the world as a means to broaden and deepen knowledge, tolerance, and understanding of people and their wider connections to humanity, history, spirituality, human rights, gender, religion, identity, politics, belief systems, race, and social justice.
Each semester an overarching theme is explored through key music, songs, testimony, short readings, and multimedia talks with guest speakers, to engage with one or more global cultures, historical time periods, or genres in depth with the goal of creating innovative and intentional music programs that open new spaces of dialogue and foster a deeper understanding of our shared humanity and resilience.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT
Enjoy dinner in Downtown Storrs before the performance. With over twenty restaurants serving up cuisines from around the globe, there’s something to fit every budget and please every palate - all within walking distance of von der Mehden! See what’s cooking here.
Pictured: Dog Lane Cafe
PARKING: Parking is available in the Downtown Storrs Parking Garage (33 Royce Circle), which is free for your first two hours and just $1/hour thereafter. The garage is about an easy walk from von der Mehden Recital Hall and conveniently located near over twenty downtown dining options.