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

Courtesy of Arts for Art | Posted on January 15, 2020

Where

The Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street
New York, NY
Map
(212) 997-6661

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

When

Wed, March 4, 2020
7:00 pm

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Musicians

Sun Ra Arkestra
band / ensemble / orchestra
Steve Swell
trombone
James Brandon Lewis
saxophone, tenor
Rob Brown
saxophone, alto
Darryl Foster
saxophone
Lewis Barnes
trumpet

About

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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