Music

Allen René Louis - “Standing Strong and Tall in The ‘Why’” (Episode 114)

“I didn't come to the arts for accolades. I'm always talking about the importance of our ‘why.’ I've been working at my ‘why’ since I was...

Sugar Hill: The Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker - "Jazzing Up The Nutcracker " (Episode 103)

After a long hiatus, we are BACK for a special holiday episode! We take you inside the creation of Sugar Hill: The Ellington/Strayhorn...

"Claiming Artistic Freedom" - 5 Artist-Creators Share Their Definitions (Episode 102)

For the season five finale of call and response, we celebrate FREEDOM. In a time where fear and scarcity feel wide-spread, how can we...

Britton Smith - "Making Room for Presence, Vulnerability, and Liberation" (Episode 101)

"There has to be permission for Black men to be vulnerable. Vulnerability wasn't taught to me or to my brother or to my community....

Tali Allen - "Educating for the Win(s)" (Episode 91)

"I work with children who are of a different generation. They are so much more evolved than we are—than their parents are. They are so...

Marty Austin Lamar - "Pivoting With Purpose" (Episode 90)

"In our efforts to give our kids the best, sometimes we completely remove them from their communities, and so what I began to see at...

Kalena Bovell - "Conducting the Music of Something Beginning" (Episode 84)

"I didn’t know a lot of Black conductors who existed. That’s because the education of who they were wasn’t there. Classical education is...

Douglas Lyons—"Pursuing Your Dreams" (Episode 40)

“I am so a black artist, but I am an artist first. When you put “black” you are telling the audience they may only relate to a certain...

Gilbert L. Bailey II—"Chillin' Out, Maxin', Relaxin' All Cool" (Episode 36)

“There is no musical I can get my brother to come to if I’m not in it and that bothers me. There is nothing, nothing, not a single show...

Kenney M. Green— "Healing Through Music" (Episode 30)

“Music is healing...Artists have always been activists. Art is about speaking out. Art is about shining light on social justices, social...

Michael R. Jackson —"Writing Unapologetically Black and Queer" (Episode 4)

“I think diversity in musical theatre means acknowledging there is an entire jewel with endless facets of points of views that need to be...

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