Freedom's Ring

The Team

Performers

Arts for Art
Conduction, led by Warren Smith and Joe McPhee
9-10 PM in the Johnson Theater

Alto Sax
Rob Brown
Patrick Brennan
Avram Fefer
Henry Warner
Saco Yasuma

Flute
Diana Wayburn

Tenor Sax
Adrian Cunningham
Darryl Foster
Seth Meicht
Ras Moshe

Bass Clarinet
Gunter Hampel

Bari Sax
Dave Sewelson

Trumpet
Lewis Barnes
Jesse Selengut

Vocals
Mossa Bildner
Ellen Christi
Jean Carla Rodea

Trombone
Steve Swell

Violin
Rosi Hertlein
Jason Kao Hwang

Guitar
Cristian Amigo
Bradley Farberman
Clifton Hyde
Juan Quinonez

Cello
Daniel Levin

Bass
Michael Bisio
Hilliard Greene
Zak Sherzad

Drums
Whit Dickey
Andrew Drury
Gunter Gruner

Dance
Patricia Nicholson: Dance Conduction
Ruomi Lee Hampel
Jason Jordan
Members of Wendy Osserman Dance Co.

Poetry
Eve Packer
Steve Dalachinsky
Poets from A Gathering of the Tribes

Visual Art
Amir Bey

Middy Streeter
Juggling performance
5-7 pm

Open Music Ensemble
Improvised acoustic music performance - Dawoud Kringle (sitar & dilruba), Richard Carr (violin & viola), Stan Grzes (drums), & Philip Foster (shruti box).
8:30-9:30 pm in the Theater lobby space
The Open Music Ensemble, established in 2006, is a cooperative of versatile, professional musical improvisers and a pioneer in the development and performance of "Open Music". The Ensemble musicians allow the music they create to come through them rather than try to create the music they play. The notes, rhythms, and sounds in an Ensemble performance are intuitively created by the members as they listen to each other and permit themselves to respond spontaneously to what they hear. In this way, the Ensemble's sounds and rhythms can move to a deeper level and offer the audience a more profound musical experience.

Theater for the New City (TNC) presents: "A DREAM MACHINE"
Curated by Mary Tierney | Co-Hosted by Fitz & Mary Tierney

Introduction: "A Hunger for Art"
      Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director, TNC

Kenny Lockwood's Band, RED ROAD
      Joe O'Brien, piano | Karen Bauer & Chris Gofreddo, vocals
      Soloman, guitar | Kenny Lockwood, singer/songwriter
      "With These Hands" sung by RED ROAD

"I Too Have A Dream" | A Dance Theater piece by Crystal Field
      The Mother: Elizabeth Ruf Maldonado
      The Child: Clara Ruf Maldonado
      The Grandmother: Crystal Field

Richard West: "MTV Song"

Vinie Burrows, "Backward & Forward"
      A Tribute to Martin Luther King & Barack Obama
      with selections from Walt Whitman & Langston Hughes

Rod Rodgers Dance Company, Excerpts from "The Legacy" Voice, March, Wish to be Free" and "Langston Lives," "Wayfaring Stranger"

Yvonne Roen: "Song for 1/19"
      Performers: Zero Boy, Reverend Billy, Sabura Rashid

"Jack's Last Farewell" by Patrick Fenton
      directed by Mary Tierney with Ron Ryan as Jack Kerouac

"Pugh's Dream"
      written & performed by Anna Lisa McClelland

Oration from "Victims of the Zeitgeist" by Ellwoodson Williams

Shakespeare's Dreams, compiled by Dick Reilly

"A Doorman's Dream"
      written and performed by Julian Piemento

"El paso del Norte" by Juan Rulfo
      directed by German Jaramillo
      with Wilmar Saldarriga, Jorge Luis Vera, Pedro Espinosa, Saul Peres