Sun Ra Arkestra & William Parker's Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield at The Town Hall

Arts for Art celebrates 25 years of programming with Songs of Justice, a night of intergenerational FreeJazz/AfroFuturism, on March 4th at NYC’s historic The Town Hall. Both the Sun Ra Arkestra under direction of Marshall Allen and William Parker’s Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield are steeped in a commitment to the ideals of music and art as agents of social change, exemplifying the very ethos of Arts for Art. This boundary-breaking blend of FreeJazz, funk, R&B, and soul aesthetics looks both back and into the future, bridging time and space to share warnings, hope, and inspiration.

Leena Conquest: lead vocals; ...

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Arts for Art celebrates 25 years of programming with Songs of Justice, a night of intergenerational FreeJazz/AfroFuturism, on March 4th at NYC’s historic The Town Hall. Both the Sun Ra Arkestra under direction of Marshall Allen and William Parker’s Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield are steeped in a commitment to the ideals of music and art as agents of social change, exemplifying the very ethos of Arts for Art. This boundary-breaking blend of FreeJazz, funk, R&B, and soul aesthetics looks both back and into the future, bridging time and space to share warnings, hope, and inspiration.

Leena Conquest: lead vocals;
Leila Adu-Gilmore:vocals;
Raina Sokolov Gonzalez: vocals;
Ronald Peet: vocals;
Thomas Sayers Ellis: voice.

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