Celebrating our 10th Anniversary!

January 2025

This year is already off to a great start for the Indiana Music History Project and we have many exciting initiatives to focus on! We invite you to visit our accessible gallery where you can view exhibits covering most genres of music across the state, from the 1920’s through current times.

Indiana Music History Project
1305 Broad Ripple Avenue
(Lower Level of Flanner Buchanan)

Open M-F 9-5 p.m.

Central Library Exhibits

Free and open to the public!

The Indiana Avenue jazz and Indy soul exhibits are still on display at the Center for Black Literature & Culture on the 2nd floor. Those cases will be changed out in late January for exhibits on The Jackson 5/Jacksons and Indiana Hip Hop. The latter exhibits will be on display through April 2025. In April we will launch exhibits in the central library on early rock/rockabilly and country/bluegrass.

Oral History Project Launch

Training & Planning

We are in the early stages of collecting oral histories from Indiana music icons across the state. Indiana Historical Society’s Shannon Powell and Marianne Sheline provided our team with a day of guidance to review and practice oral history interviews at our HQ location in Broad Ripple.

Tucker Fenwick from Image Resources, who will be heading up video production, was on hand to provide instruction on video recording and lighting.

During 2025, we are interviewing 50 or more individuals who have been important to Indiana music, and we plan to continue to do this each year. Suggestions are welcome! Please keep in mind, however, there are thousands of deserving people and we have limited capacity for now. There’s so much more to come on this exciting project!

Featured Memorabilia Donation

Garage Rock Recordings & Posters

Thank you to Kent Baker donating his Garage Rock Reunion 2005/2006 memorabilia, including recordings of the event and signed event posters. Kent is an original 60’s garage rock musician from the Indianapolis band Revengers and put together two years of amazing garage rock band reunions at The Vogue.

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Brent Wallarab Projects

Classic College Fight Songs Reimagined

Following the resounding success of The Gennett Suite record/CD release, Brent’s team continues with outstanding projects. Recently released on digital, streaming and CD is “Across the Field”, 12 classic college fight songs reimagined in a modern jazz context, created and performed by Visions Jazz Ensemble and released by Patois Records. The CD has already received a favorable review from Downbeat Magazine. They appeared on January 10, 2025 on Fox59’s Indy Now Mixtape show.

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Clear Vibes Concerts

Supporting a New Series & Local Artists

Learn More & RSVP

The IMHP works to celebrate and uplift our local artists which is why we have become a sponsor of Clear Vibes Concerts. This intimate concert series features a variety of local talent and we are thrilled to support these events. The first concert is coming up on Sunday, January 26th at 4 p.m. It will be hosted at the home of our communications manager and independent local music promoter, Kati Taylor. Be sure to RSVP if you plan to attend and subscribe to the Clear Vibes Concerts email list for updates and invites. See you there!

Giving Tuesday

Thank You!

Your donations from Giving Tuesday were 100% matched by a generous donation from board member Ted Mau and his wife Maureen.

It’s never too late to donate!

Make a donation today and help fund IMHP 2025 initiatives and support our mission.

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