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This week on Echoes of Indiana Avenue we’ll continue our look back at the Indiana Avenue Jazz Festival — an annual concert series that flourished on the Avenue from 1983 to 1997. Join us as we take a year-by-year look back at the Indiana Avenue Jazz Festival. We’ll listen to music from artists who performed at the festival, with a focus on local musicians - including David Young, Keni Washington and OmniVerse, The Hampton Sisters, Billy Wooten, Cherryl Hayes, Terence Blanchard and more.

Highlighting the former glory of Indiana Avenue’s jazz scene, Freetown Village will present “A Musical Journey of Indiana Avenue” as part of its annual Musical Journey series.

The mural, painted the "wrong way" on Capitol Avenue, was part of an effort to bring 46 murals to Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI.

Indiana University Northwest will stage a play about "The Harlem of the Midwest" as part of its Black History Month celebration.

Meet saxophonist Claude Bartee, one of the unsung legends of the Avenue. In the 1960s Bartee left Naptown, beginning a journey that led to some of the greatest musicians and record labels in music.