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
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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. The duo won acclaim at the 2020 International Folk Awards in New Orleans when awarded ARTIST OF THE YEAR, and their highly anticipated sophomore album, “Assiniboine & The Red” (Red House Records) garnered 3 Canadian Folk Music Awards, a JUNO Award nomination (Canada’s GRAMMYs), and the #1 Critics’ Choice for ‘Album of the Year’ in Penguin Eggs Magazine. thesmallglories.com
MAGOS HERRERA — Grammy nominee, singer/songwriter, producer and educator Magos Herrera presents an offering of songs from her 20 years discography to celebrate life, joy and hope after months of isolation. Regarded as one of the most expressive and active vocalists in the contemporary Latin American jazz scene, she is best known for her eloquent vocal improvisation and her singular, bold style which embraces elements of contemporary jazz with Latin American melodies and rhythms. She is also known for championing women’s causes and currently serves as a spokesperson for UN Women, and has contributed to important causes including UNITE, a campaign to end violence against women, and He For She, a promoter of gender equality. She currently serves as an artistic advisor for the National Sawdust and is a recipient of Chamber Music Americas New Jazz works award. magosherrera.com
Magos Herrera - Vocals Michaela Basman Monterrubio - Media Vinicius Gomes - Guitar projection design Benjamin García - Bass Production assistant - Michaela Basman Alex Kautz - Drums Magos Herrera stage attire - Hoja Santa Gonzalo Peniche - Audio recording Alex Venguer - Audio mixing We thank the support of Nexo Audio Oscar Zambrano - Audio mastering Mexico and Teatro Ángela Peralta and Video recording and editing - Espacio 4 Dirección de Cultura y Tradiciones de Audiovisual San Miguel de Allende, Gto.
GET LIT-WORDS IGNITE fuses classic and spoken word poetry to increase teen literacy, cultivating enthusiastic learners emboldened to inspire social consciousness in diverse communities. The Get Lit Players are an award- winning poetry troupe and the most watched poets on the internet. They have performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, opened for John Legend at the Hollywood Bowl and performed at the White House three times. Twenty-seven Get Lit Poets recently penned and starred in the feature film Summertime, directed by Carlos López Estrada, which premiered opening night at Sundance in 2020 and will be seen in theaters in the spring 2021. getlit.org CAMBALACHE (a Spanish word for “exchange”) is a group of musicians from East L.A. who focus on building community and awareness through son jarocho, the traditional music of Veracruz, Mexico, which is a blend of indigenous, African and Spanish influences. Through their performances, Cambalache invites audiences to participate in the fandango, a traditional celebration of music and dance, to erase cross-cultural barriers and come together in the spirit of unity. jarochelo.com/cambalache
CLAUDIA LENNEAR, one of the featured singers of the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, is often described as a pop music pioneer who sang background vocals on stage and on recordings with Ike and Tina Turner, Allen Toussaint, the Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, George Harrison, Elton John, Steven Stills, Taj Mahal and many others. She worked professionally with many of the original producers and sidemen musicians who developed the direction of popular music in both the United States and England during the 70s. Today she writes original tunes and performs with “Friends” to keep alive the messages of many well-loved Americana songs. The repertoire comes from, but is not limited to, the archives of Leadbelly, the front porch of Mother Maybelle Carter, the Appalachian setting of Bill Monroe and the backdoor kitchen of Big Mama Thornton. claudialennear.com
Claudia Lennear - Vocals Stuart Niemi - Vocals, dobro and Elizabeth Hangan - Vocals and acoustic guitar bass guitar Caleb Quaye - Acoustic guitar Jeff Landau - Vocals and slide guitar John York - Vocals, banjo and 12 string guitar THE PEOPLE SPEAK Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 7PM PST
Produced by Anthony Arnove, co-editor with the late historian Howard Zinn of Voices of a People’s History of the United States, The People Speak brings to life the extraordinary history of the people who built the movements that ended slavery and Jim Crow, protested wars and the genocide of Native Americans, created unions and the eight-hour work day, and advanced women’s rights and LGBTQ liberation.
The CAP UCLA presentation will feature Celisse Henderson, Laura Gómez, Marisa Tomei, Morgan Spector, Staceyann Chin, Martha Redbone with Aaron Whitby.
Learn more at cap.ucla.edu/PeopleSpeak MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO Chapter and Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin Sep 15 - Dec 31, 2020
Inspired by the writing of James Baldwin Created by Meshell Ndegeocello; In collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite Featuring the contributions of Staceyann Chin, Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, and others to be announced
A free, multimedia, community-based ritual tool kit for justice in the 21st century. Inspired by The Fire Next Time, Baldwin’s seminal treatise on justice in America, Chapter and Verse has been adapted from its orignial stage version to accommodate the social distancing realities of the world-wide pandemic. This three- part work is an accessible interactive experience.
Learn more at cap.ucla.edu/Baldwin
A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard. Co-Commissioned by Fisher Center at Bard, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, MCA Chicago, and Festival de Marseille. CONSTANCE HOCKADAY Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 Conceived by Constance Hockaday and Commissioned by CAP UCLA in association with Stanford Live Sep 18 – Nov 13, 2020
Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 is an art project inspired by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Depression-era Fireside Chats. Artists, writers, performers and musicians from a wide range of cultural realities have been invited to assume an authority over our collective future and to define what we could become together as a nation. Each artist will create, write and record a “State of the Union Redress” that describes their vision with dramaturgical advice from retired presidential speech writers.
Subscribe to receive weekly artist transmissions! ArtistsInPresidents.com
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