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SUMMARY:SONGS OF TRUTH: The Awakening
DESCRIPTION:A Juneteenth Weekend celebration & concert of original blues\, gospel\, jazz and American roots songs from the Broadway-bound musical “Truth”.\n\n\nTRUTH is an original musical theater project inspired by the true life story and spiritual mission of SOJOURNER TRUTH\, a woman once-enslaved in New York’s Hudson Valley\, who grew up to take her own freedom\, free her son\, and become a pioneering champion of emancipation and women’s rights in America.The original songs convey the wide range of feelings\, struggles\, triumphs\, joys\, and revelations of Sojourner’s incredible journey. Sojourner herself is both the musical’s Storyteller and central figure in the Story within a Story\, as she takes us back in time along on her unique soul’s journey through an incredible\, sometimes harrowing\, oft times inspiring\, moving and impactful life.SONGS of TRUTH is a selection of heart and eye opening songs from the full musical. \n“SONGS OF TRUTH: The Awakening” is the second in a series of Richmond concert presentations\, following two sold out concerts in November 2025 at Reveler in Carytown. It will have additional visual elements and dance elements\, as well as a stage full of legendary and up-and-coming Richmond talent. \nRichmond’s own Desirée Roots will headline once again as Sojourner Truth\, with a cast including Sir Rome\, Carla Jackson\, Dale Heiskill\, Reyna Pannell\, Keni B Fine\, Milani Hopkins and Stacie Brown. \nThe Band will be led by Weldon Hill\, with Mike Hawkins\, James “Saxmo” Gates and other stellar Richmond musicians. \nSONGS of TRUTH will be directed by Tanya Birl-Torres\, a New York City-based\, Director choreographer and theater artist\, currently Artist in Residence at New York’s The Shed. \nSONGS of TRUTH is presented by Craig Martin\, Keni B Fine and Shockoe Records.
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LOCATION:The Hippodrome\, 528 N 2nd St\, Richmond\, VA\, 23219\, United States
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SUMMARY:Stanley Clarke
DESCRIPTION:Four-time Grammy Award Winner Stanley Clarke has attained “living legend” status during his over 50-year career as a bass virtuoso. He is the first bassist in history who doubles on acoustic and electric bass with equal ferocity and the first jazz-fusion bassist ever to headline tours\, selling out shows worldwide. A veteran of over 40 albums\, he won the 2011 Best Contemporary Jazz Album Grammy Award for The Stanley Clarke Band. Clarke co-founded the seminal fusion group Return to Forever with Chick Corea and Lenny White. In 2012 Return to Forever won a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album\, Forever. \n\n\n\nClarke’s creativity has been recognized and rewarded in every way imaginable. In 2022 Clarke was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of its four new Jazz Master honorees. This is the highest honor that the United States bestows on jazz artists. He was Rolling Stone’s very first Jazzman of the Year and bassist winner of Playboy’s Music Award for ten straight years. Clarke was honored with Bass Player Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award and is a member of Guitar Player Magazine’s “Gallery of Greats.” In 2011 he was honored with the highly prestigious Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival for his entire body of work. Clarke has won Downbeat Magazine’s Reader’s and Critics Poll for Best Electric Bass Player for many years. In September 2016 he became a part of the permanent collection displayed at the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC. \n\n\n\nIn 2023 It was announced that Clarke will partner with Santa Monica\, CA’s\, BroadStage as its Artist in Residence. This multi-year partnership includes performances\, curation\, and mentorship for Santa Monica College Music Department and Santa Monica High School Jazz students. The cornerstone of the residency is the launch in three years’ time of an intergenerational jazz festival in Santa Monica. \n\n\n\nUnable to tour most of 2020\, Clarke’s Pandemic work involved developing a web series\, Stanley Clarke’s Bass Nation. The project is about the dynamics of the music industry\, recording and performing\, and include Stanley’s conversations with noted musicians\, gear reviews\, play-throughs and performances. \n\n\n\nAn accomplished film and TV composer of well over 70 projects\, his credits include Boyz N The Hood\, the Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got To Do With It\, Romeo Must Die\, The Transporter and Best Man Holiday. He has garnered three Emmy Nominations and a BMI Award for his scoring. In 2014 Clarke was invited to become a member of the exclusive Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. \n\n\n\nBorn in Philadelphia\, Clarke has been a constant force of nature in American music since the early 1970s with the success of the jazz-fusion group Return To Forever. That accomplishment gave way to a number of extremely successful solo albums for Clarke. Along the way\, he has collaborated with Quincy Jones\, Stan Getz\, Art Blakey\, Paul McCartney\, Jeff Beck\, Keith Richards\, Aretha Franklin\, Stevie Wonder\, Chaka Khan\, The Police\, Herbie Hancock and many more\, and has shared the stage with Bob Marley and Miles Davis. \n\n\n\nHe believes in giving back to help young musicians hone their skills. He and his wife Sofia established The Stanley Clarke Foundation eighteen years ago\, which offers scholarships to talented young musicians.
URL:https://theculturalcurrent.com/event/stanley-clarke/
LOCATION:CarMax Park\, 2929 N Arthur Ashe Blvd\, Richmond\, Virginia\, 23220\, United States
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