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 Presents THE TUNE IN FESTIVAL A convergence of music and poetry in a time of change
Program 3: STAY STRONG Fri, Oct 30 at 4:30-9:30PM 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 9:20PM - Claudia Lennear with Friends
STAY STRONG: Fri, Oct 30
Photo by:Randi Malkin Steinberger 4:30PM - Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely 5:45PM - Dan + Claudia Zanes 6:40PM - Get Lit 7 PM - Ash Grove Alumni 7:30PM - Sweet Honey In the Rock 8:15PM - Perla Batalla 9PM - Tonality
SING OUT: Sat, Oct 31
11AM - Dan + Claudia Zanes 12PM - Nano Stern 3:30PM - 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 Photo by:Randi Malkin Steinberger 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 3 SONG LIST
TOSHI REAGON & GET LIT B I G L O V E LY Salome Agbaroji Songs will be announced from “Insonmia” stage. Tyris Winter “On Twenty” The performance features: Cyrus Roberts Bobby Burke - Drums “The Reprieve of the Shade” Fred Cash - Bass Raul Herrera Adam Widoff - Electric “Newton Was A Hopeless Guitar Romantic” and/or “Culture” Toshi Reagon - Guitar and Christina Miles Vocals “Sugar” Nyarae Francis “How Big Is Your” and/or [new DAN + CLAUDIA voting-related poem] ZANES Marquesha Barbers “That Girl” “Let Love be Your Guide (for John Lewis)”
“Coming Down” ASH GROVE ALUMNI
“In These Troubled Times” “Gotta Be There” Steve Moos (Steve Moos, Joe C, “New Beginnings” Wendy and band) “Reparations is a Must” “People get ready” “The Bridge” Curtis Mayfield (extra rap by Joe Chambers) “For the Long Night” “Green Rocky Road” “Open Windows” Len Chandler (Wendy Waldman)
“Two Different Worlds” “Zion/Tune in” Steve Moos (Steve Moos, backed “Hold On” by Wendy and Joe) All songs by Dan + Claudia Zanes ”Back By Fall” Wendy Waldman (Wendy Waldman)
”Tore Up” PROGRAM 3 SONG LIST
Hank Ballard (Joe Chambers) PERLA BATALLA ”Time Has Come Today” Joe Chambers (Joe Chambers) “Bird on the Wire” “Hallelujah”
SWEET HONEY IN “We Shall Overcome” THE ROCK “Anthem” “Hush” Traditional Spiritual “Suzanne”
“We are one” Barnwell’s Notes TONALITY CHOIR “Living Waters” Thunderhead Music “America the Beautiful”
“Are We A Nation” “Can You See” She-Rocks 5 Publishing and Barry J. Eastmond, Melorie “Sing About It” Music
“The Women Gather” 4Jagadish Music
“Second Lind Blues” Earthtoasha Music
“Ella’s Song” Songtalk Publishing
“I’m Gon’ Stand Songtalk Publishing
“Let There be Peace” Earth to Asha ABOUT THE ARTISTS
TOSHI REAGON & BIGLOVELY — Toshi Reagon is a one-woman celebration of all that’s dynamic, progressive and uplifting in American music. Since first taking to the stage at 17, the versatile singer/songwriter/ guitarist has moved audiences with her big-hearted, hold-nothing-back approach to rock, blues, R&B, country, folk, spirituals and funk. The final live performance of CAP UCLA’s 2019-20 Season was Reagon’s highly acclaimed and sold-out musical theater interpretation of Octavia Butler’s prescient novel Parable Of The Sower. Reagon will be joined by her band, BIGLovely. toshireagon.com/biglovely
DAN + CLAUDIA ZANES — Grammy Award-winning children’s performer Dan Zanes and Haitian American music therapist/jazz vocalist Claudia Zanes have been making music with each other since the day they met in the fall of 2016. Inspired by their artful modern-day all-ages folk music and their commitment to accessibility, the Kennedy Center commissioned Claudia and Dan to create a theater piece for young audiences. Night Train 57: A Sensory Friendly Comic Folk Opera premiered in October 2017 and has been performed numerous times since. Their songbook, Dan Zanes’ House Party: A Family Roots Music Treasury, released in late 2018, has inspired conversations with parents, educators, music therapists and fellow musicians about how to work together to create a healthier, more musical and (ultimately) more festive society. While taking on these projects, Claudia and Dan have continued to bring their music to family shows, school workshops, community singalongs and folk festivals throughout the U.S. and into Canada. They take their commitment to accessibility and inclusion with them wherever they go. danandclaudia.com
PRODUCTION MUSICIANS Xavier M. Plater (X-Media Productions) Amadou Kouyate - Kora - Videographer Conjunto Bruja is Yesenia Mejia - vocal, Chester Gwazda - Sound recording Franca Muller - quijada and dance, Azadeh Ahmedi-Ernes Sarykhalil - Editor Karami - Iranian setar and daf Eduard Slobodianiuk - Sound Editor Prem Raja Mahat - Nepali bansuri flute and Olga Morkova - Production Coordinator vocals Rob Friedman - Sound Editing (Let Love The Smithereens of Pleasant Hope Baptist be Your Guide and For the Long Night), Church are Lily, Kenan, Henriell and Korcoran Vocals, Organ, percussion (Open Smith Windows) The Beatbox Dads are Mr. Root and Mr. Max Fred Moss - Sound recording (Let Love be Your Guide and For the Long Night) 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
ASH GROVE ALUMNI — It has been over 47 years since Ed Pearl’s legendary Ash Grove club closed after its third fire. This legendary club brought roots music out west and poured it into the culture, forever changing our musical landscape. Countless musicians who performed there and future musicians who learned their craft watching the masters work are still paying this musical heritage forward. Wendy Waldman, a critically acclaimed recording artist and songwriter in nearly every musical genre, is also one of the first distinguished female record producers. Joe Chambers, fabled American singer and songwriter for The Chambers Brothers, co-wrote and sang the legendary “Time Has Come Today.” Together with multi-instrumentalist Steven Moos, the Ash Grove Alumni band looks back to our roots and tunes in. ashgrovemusic.net
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK — Grammy Award-nominated and globally renowned a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock has stayed true to their mission to educate, entertain and empower their audience and community through the dynamic vehicles of a cappella singing and American Sign Language interpretation. The magnificent beauty and power of their voices and inspired messages engage the ear, lift the soul and stimulate the mind in a positive journey you will not soon forget. Touching on the culturally complex relevance of our times—social justice, human and civil rights—their work integrates many complex sounds of the African American musical tradition such as blues, spirituals, gospel hymns, rap, reggae, African chants, hip-hop, ancient lullabies and jazz improvisation, all of which have contributed to Sweet Honey’s core and patented style. sweethoneyintherock.org
PERLA BATALLA — Grammy- nominated singer-songwriter Perla Batalla earns critical acclaim for her distinctive voice, emotional honesty & culture-merging compositions. She was born in L.A. to a family immersed in music. Her dad, a Mexican mariachi and an Argentine mom who ran the family record shop called “Discoteca Batalla”, where Perla was exposed to an education of non-stop music that cut across genre & language. After singing with numerous groups, including Leonard Cohen, Perla launched her solo career with Cohen’s encouragement. Since then she has recorded seven albums, staged two one-woman shows and performed in some of the most prestigious venues around the world. Batalla’s mission of introducing youth to the beauty of music & Spanish language is ongoing in her outreach throughout the poorest communities in the U.S.. She has been honored with two U.N. awards: The Earth Charter Award for extraordinary devotion to social and economic justice and The Environmental Peacebuilding Award- advancing social justice through music. Perla is also the recipient of New Mexico’s Premio Fronterizo Award for healing work in the world. Piano: Michael Sobie, Oud and Guitar: Dimitris Mahlis. perla.com
TONALITY, established in 2016, is an award-winning ensemble led by founder and artistic director Alexander Lloyd Blake. An ensemble that represents the diverse cultures and ethnicities found throughout Los Angeles, Tonality is best known for creating choral concerts that focus on issues rarely presented in choral music. Their mission is to use their collective voices to present concerts on themes of social justice to encourage empathy and community activism. Concert themes have included gun violence, homelessness, refugees, climate change, mental health, women’s rights and exercising democratic rights. The group premiered its first album, Sing About It, in 2019 and received the Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming in 2020. In addition to performing with Kronos Quartet, Tonality will present a separate program of three choral works—”America the Beautiful” (their own rendition and reimagining of the work, redefining its meaning in today’s world); “Can You See” (an observation of values in today’s society); and “Sing About It” (a song about empathy and reaching out). ourtonality.org 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, and others.
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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