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Some 20 years ago, when a musical group known as Bleu Django formed, it needed a bit of a support system to form as well. Violinist Carolyn Dutton of Nashville remembers.

With the Paris Summer Olympic Games just over a month away, the History Channel recalls one of the Olympics’ most stirring stories.

Coming off a just-completed season that saw tickets edge up slightly over the previous season, the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic has announced its 2024-’25 season, “Encore.” The 38th-year schedule under music director Isaac Selya has been trimmed by one concert compared to seasons of past years.

* The Columbus/Bartholomew County Branch of the NAACP’s celebration of “Juneteenth: Jubilee 2024: Healing Our Soul” begins at 11:3o a.m. Saturday along Fourth Street in downtown Columbus. The free event features food for purchase, music, varied arts and clothing vendors, a children’s zone, two Black history tours and more along Fourth Street. Plus, a Black history panel is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. at the nearby Crump Theatre. Moreover, the gathering includes nationally touring culinary historian Michael Twitty. In a pre-Juneteenth address from 10 to 11:30 a.m., he will present “Keeping Family Recipes Alive” at the nearby Bartholomew County Public Library. He will speak again in the same location from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. on “How I Found My Soul In Soul Food.” Information: Facebook page for Black History Columbus.

When the music ends, the metaphor-making begins. The three-part docuseries “Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-14) recalls a rather relentless, ubiquitous and inescapable musical trend through a historical lens.

Now streaming on Hulu, “Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown,” recalls November 18, 1978, one of the darker days in American history.

There are so many new ways to watch a special few people ever watched in the first place!

Netflix ups the discomfort factor in its collection of bingeable docuseries. Produced by British-American journalist Louis Theroux, the U.K. limited series “Tell Them You Love Me” explores the story of esteemed professor Anna Stubblefield and raises a basketful of troubling questions.

For years after the publication of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, the notion of the year 1984 loomed as a fearful vision of the future. Now, some eight decades after the novel and 40 years after the fearful year came and went, some of Orwell’s notions about mass surveillance and not-so-subtle societal control have come to pass.