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THE TUNE IN FESTIVAL A convergence of music and poetry in a time of change Wed, Oct 28-Sat, Oct 31, 2020 ART MATTERS NOW MORE THAN EVER WELCOME TO UCLA’S CENTER FOR THE ART OF PERFORMANCE UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) is the public facing research and presenting organization for the performing arts at the University of California, Los Angeles—one of the world’s leading public research universities. We are housed within the UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture along with the Hammer and Fowler museums. The central pursuit of our work as an organization is to sustain the diversity of contemporary performing artists while celebrating their contributions to culture. We acknowledge, amplify and support artists through major presentations, commissions and creative development initiatives. Our programs offer audiences a direct connection to the ideas, perspectives and concerns of living artists. Through the lens of dance, theater, music, literary arts, digital media arts and collaborative disciplines, informed by diverse racial and cultural backgrounds, artists and audiences come together in our theaters and public spaces to explore new ways of seeing that expands our understanding of the world we live in now. cap.ucla.edu #CAPUCLA CAP UCLA Presents THE TUNE IN FESTIVAL A convergence of music and poetry in a time of change Program 2: PRESS ON Thu, Oct 29 at 6:45-10PM PDT Video Direction: Carole Kim and Friends The Tune In Festival was made possible by a generous gift from composer Rachel Fuller (Animal Requiem) and her husband, Pete Townshend (The Who). Additional funds provided by the Ginny Mancini Endowment for Vocal Performance, the Royce Center Circle Endowment Fund and the Royce Gala Endowment. FESTIVAL SCHEDULE GATHER UP: Wed, Oct 28 7PM - Auntie Sewing Squad 7:10PM - Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger, with Tehillah Alphonso, Jolie Holland, Lee Knight, Tonoccus McClain, Meklit, and Tonality PRESS ON: Thu, Oct 29 6:45PM - B. Wurtz 7PM - The Small Glories 7:25PM - B. Wurtz 7:30PM - Magos Herrera 8PM - Get Lit 8:30PM - Cambalache 9:15 PM - Claudia Lennear with Friends STAY STRONG: Fri, Oct 30 4:30PM - Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely Photo by:Randi Malkin Steinberger 5:45PM - Dan + Claudia Zanes 6:40PM - Get Lit 7PM - Ash Grove Alumni 7:30 PM - Sweet Honey In the Rock 8:15 PM - Perla Batalla 9 PM - Tonality SING OUT: Sat, Oct 31 11AM - Dan + Claudia Zanes 12PM - Nano Stern 3:30 PM - Get Lit 4PM - Ash Grove Alumni 4:30PM - Carla Canales 5PM - Urban Voices Project 5:20PM - Sunny War 7PM - Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely 8PM - Quetzal 8:30PM - Vijay Gupta and Los Angeles Poverty Department, with Kronos Quartet MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER One of the driving features of CAP UCLA’s 2020-21 Season is The Tune In Festival; a convergence of music and poetry in the time of change. Tune In is a four-day convening of artists, bands, ensembles and soloists from across the U.S., Canada and Latin America performing together in a grand gesture of cross-cultural solidarity that shares the time-honored tradition of music and poetry as a wellspring of resilience, resistance and inspiration. Every generation and era that ushers forth the human need for major change has an anthem or verse that call people to stand up. The Tune In Festival is chock full of song lines and rhymes from some of our most revered voices who speak from the rousing perspective of activating truth. I knew we needed folk singers and poets in the fall of 2020—long before COVID-19, the despicable tragedy of George Floyd and so many others and the escalated tension that befalls us during a “normal” presidential election, let alone this one. I started talking with musicians and poets across genres and generations, with a mind towards re-booting The Tune In Festival I had brought with me to L.A. after presenting it at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. What is the music we want to hear from others’ struggles for human rights and justice? What are the poets of today speaking to? What do we want to remind one another of and inspire us as we look to the future? Not surprisingly, Kronos Quartet was thinking along the same lines and were developing a concert to celebrate the incredible life and music of Pete Seeger for the 100 year anniversary of his birth. “We Shall Overcome” is an anthem for the ages and across the ongoing struggles for civil rights that continue to be sought by successive generations. As Kronos planned their concert for CAP UCLA, I started working on building the festival around these shared aims. Tune In is the voice of right now speaking up and out for the unmet needs and rights of so many in the Black and brown communities in America since our founding. What these music-makers and poets address through their lives and experience are the anthems that say ENOUGH. Conjoined through successive generations of music, poetry and song, they inspire us all to push forward for the changes we have always known to be urgent. Tune In is also an incredible celebration of the voices of artists who can inspire us to rise up, tune in, resist, keep pushing and support one another as society’s other narratives try to push us in the opposite direction. This is the soundtrack of getting out the vote! This is the soundtrack of now! And it is going to be joyous! Kristy Edmunds Executive and Artistic Director PROGRAM 2 SONG LIST B. WURTZ “What You Do With What You’ve Got” All songs by B. Wurtz Si Kahn Produced by Harlan Steinberger at Hen House Studios “Company Store” Videos by Randi Malkin Steinberger Greg MacPherson “The Shady Road” “Bring ‘Em All In” The Shady Road Mike Scott B. Wurtz: Vocals acoustic guitar Harlan Steinberger: Drums, “One Day I Walk” percussion, bass Bruce Cockburn “Today” B. Wurtz: Lead vocal, piano MAGOS HERRERA Black Lavender: Background vocal Sunny War: Acoustic guitar Micah Nelson (Particle Kid): “Balderrama” Cymbal, electric guitar Manuel José Castilla Aroyn Davis: Bass Gustavo Leguizamón Harlan Steinberger: Drums “Brigas nunca mais” “Start Here” Tom Jobim B. Wurtz: Lead vocal, acoustic guitar “Tu y yo” Micah Nelson (Particle Kid): Magos Herrera Electric guitar, keyboards Fabio Gouvea Harlan Steinberger: Bass Paul Allen: Percussion “La llorona” Public domain “Milonga gris” THE SMALL Carlos Aguirre GLORIES “Eu vim da Bahia” “Sing” Gilberto Gil Original (written by TSG) “El Siquisiri” “Don’t Back Down” Traditional Original (written by TSG) Arranged by Cambalache “Your Daughters and Your “El Buscapies” Sons” Traditional Tommy Sands Arranged by Cambalache PROGRAM 2 SONG LIST “La Manta” GET LIT Traditional Arranged by Cambalache Christina Miles “Sugar” CLAUDIA LENNEAR Raul Herrera WITH FRIENDS “Newton Was A Hopeless Romantic” and/or “Culture” “Will the Circle be Nyarae Francis Unbroken” “How Big Is Your” and/or [new Written by: A P Carter voting-related poem] “Love Takes Time” Marquesha Barbers Written by: Claudia Lennear “That Girl” “Plato’s Cave” Cyrus Roberts Written by: Claudia Lennear “The Reprieve of the Shade” “Casey Jones” Maia Mayor Written by: Furry Lewis “Perfect” “Take This Hammer” Written by: Leadbelly CAMBALACHE “Turn Turn Turn” Written by: Pete Seeger “La Morena” Traditional “Corinna” Arranged by Cambalache Written by: Taj Mahal “El-Colas” “Bury Me Under the Weeping Traditional Willow” Arranged by Cambalache Written by: Kincaid “Gallo Ramiro” “(We’re) Better Together” Music and lyrics by Cambalache Written by: Jeff Landau “El Tilingo Gringo” “This Land is Your Land” Lino Carrillo Written by: Woody Guthrie Arranged by Cambalache “La Bamba” Traditional Arranged by Cambalache ABOUT THE ARTISTS B. WURTZ was born in Pasadena, California and lives and works in New York. He received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1980. For over forty years, Wurtz has transformed the minutiae of daily life into poetic sculptures, drawings, and assemblages. On October 16, he released his debut album, Some Songs via Hen House Studios. He began studying piano as a child and taught himself guitar as a teen. He also drew and painted. Late in high school his piano teacher urged him to consider a musical career but instead he felt compelled to focus intently on his art practice and has remained an artist to this day. His interest in listening to music has never flagged but performing was not part of his life again until recently when his wife gifted him a guitar for their anniversary. While relearning initially proved difficult to uncalloused fingers, a mind sharpened by conceptual art work quickly formed its own refined songwriting approach. YouTube tutorials helped him produce demos on Garageband. He later added lyrics that blended philosophical thought with direct observation; birds and clouds passing outside his windows, signage on New York subways, a clock on his shelf. henhousestudios.com THE SMALL GLORIES are roots powerhouse duo Cara Luft & JD Edwards, a musical tour de-force partnership planted the Canadian prairies. With a stage banter striking a unique balance between slapstick and sermon, these veteran singer/songwriters have a way of making rooms shrink and time disappear. It’s not uncommon for listeners to find themselves laughing, dancing, crying, or caught up in a good ol’ fashioned sing- along. Their material is welcoming in terms of subject, folk-pop melody and instrumentation — songs of love, loss and environment, delivered with soaring, interwoven vocals on various combinations of stomping clawhammer banjo, guitar, and harmonica. Luft, an original member of folk trio The Wailin’ Jennys and whose parents were folksingers influenced by the great activist Pete Seeger, knows that sometimes a song is all you need to bring people together.

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