— Photos by Claudia Ferro

The annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration event, entitled Music: Our MLK Jr. Dream by Song, was be held on Monday, Jan. 19, the East Somerville Community School The event included performances by the Somerville High School World Percussion Ensemble, El Sistema Somerville Youth Orchestra, MLK Jr. Somerville Interfaith Choir, SheBoom, the Center for Arabic Culture Children’s Choir, the Somerville High School Dance Club, and the first official appearance by Somerville’s first-ever Poet Laureate, Nicole Terez Dutton.