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 4: SING OUT Sat, Oct 31 at 11AM-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 7PM - 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 4 SONG LIST DAN + CLAUDIA ZANES “Let Love be Your Guide (for John Lewis)” “Coming Down” “In These Troubled Times” “New Beginnings” “Reparations is a Must” “The Bridge” “For the Long Night” “Open Windows” “Two Different Worlds” GET LIT “Hold On” Salome Agbaroji All songs by Dan + Claudia Zanes “Insonmia” Christina Miles NANO STERN “Sugar Momma” and/of “Ba Ba Black Sheep” “El Doliente” Cyrus Roberts “Ley de Vida” “The Reprieve of the Shade” “Santiago” Tyris Winter “On Twenty” “Agua Clara” “Festejo de Color” Raul Herrera “Newton Was A Hopeless Ro” “Regalé mis ojos” Maia Mayor All songs written and “Perfect” composed by Nano Stern, except “El doliente”, written by Óscar Hahn and composed by Marquesha Barbers Nano Stern. “That Girl” PROGRAM 4 SONG LIST ASH GROVE ALUMNI CARLA CANALES “Gotta Be There” “Yours is Ours” Steve Moos (Steve Moos, Joe By Gwyneth Herbert C, Wendy and band) “This is what” “People get ready” By Emily Estefan Curtis Mayfield (extra rap by Joe Chambers) “Nana de Sevilla” By Federico Garcia Lorca “Green Rocky Road” Len Chandler (Wendy “Zorongo” Waldman) Federico Garcia Lorca “Zion/Tune in” Steve Moos (Steve Moos, backed by Wendyy and Joe) URBAN VOICES PROJECT ”Back By Fall” Wendy Waldman (Wendy “Still I Rise” Waldman) (Maya Angelou) ”Tore Up” “Walk with Me” Hank Ballard (Joe Chambers) (Maggie Wheeler) ”Time Has Come Today” “Rise Again” Joe Chambers (Joe Chambers) (a UVP original) “Still I Will Love” (Shaina Taub) PROGRAM 4 SONG LIST S U N N Y WA R QUETZAL “All Life’s Worth” “Migra” (Quetzal Flores, Martha “I’m Human” Gonzalez) “Got No Ride” “Grito de Alegria” (Big Frente Zapatista) All original songs by artist. “Pillow People” (Quetzal Flores, Juan Perez, Evan Greer, Martha TOSHI REAGON & Gonzalez) B I G L O V E LY “Hormigitas Divinas” (Tylana Enomoto, Quetzal Songs will be announced from Flores, Martha Gonzalez, stage. Alberto Lopez, Juan Perez, Peter Jacobson) The performance features: “Estoy Aqui” Bobby Burke - Drums (Quetzal Flores, Martha Fred Cash - Bass Gonzalez) Adam Widoff - Electric Guitar “Todos Somos Ramona” Toshi Reagon - Guitar and (Quetzal Flores, Martha Vocals Gonzalez) ABOUT THE ARTISTS 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 Windows) Smith Fred Moss - Sound recording (Let Love be The Beatbox Dads are Mr. Root and Mr. Max Your Guide and For the Long Night) NANO STERN — Political, outspoken and passionate, Chilean singer/ songwriter and activist Nano Stern has created his own musical language— an otherworldly sound that blends the youthful exuberance of folk music mixed with years of classical and jazz training against the powerful force of traditional Chilean revolutionary songs.