Tickets: Advance $30 | Day of Show $35
WMI Member Prices: Advance $24 | Day of Show $28
The Sacred Sounds of Healing series is made possible with the generous support of Chandrika Tandon.
The Sacred Sounds of Healing series highlights artists, cross-cultural collaborations, and interactive ancillary events that celebrate and promote the transformative power of music and sounds from diverse spiritual and ethnic traditions. This initiative aims to heal and foster peace, joy, and unity through the universal language of music.
Performers:
Samora Pinderhughes – piano and vocals
Nio Levon – vocals and choir director
Elliott Skinner – vocals
Dani Murcia – vocals
Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson – vocals
Nina Moffitt – vocals
Vuyo Sotashe – vocals
From the Healing Project Choir:
A chorus comprises a multiplicity of voices, moving in harmony while retaining their own characteristics, identities, and experiences. The Healing Project Choir is a dynamic and growing village of singers and musicians connected and mobilized to a specific purpose: using songs to dismantle structural violence and heal from systemic oppression. We share a belief that music should be used as a truth-telling device in service of the people. Living in the legacy of Sweet Honey in the Rock, AACM, the Nueva Canción movement, and others, and founded/directed by composer Samora Pinderhughes, The Healing Project Choir uses collective singing and vulnerable lyricism to shape and hold space for community engagement, collective exchange, and participatory action. In these tender places, we invite people to experience what freedom sounds like and feel their way into a more compassionate society. We are the healers that we’ve been waiting for.
Samora Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist known for striking intimacy and carefully crafted, radically honest lyrics alongside high-level musicianship. He is also known for using his music to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change, and for working in the tradition of the black surrealists throughout the African Diaspora, who bend word, sound, and image towards the causes of revolution. Pinderhughes is a prison and police abolitionist, an anti-capitalist, and an advocate for process over product.
As an artist, Pinderhughes’ goal is that people will LIVE DIFFERENTLY after experiencing what he makes—that it will affect how they think, how they act, how they relate to others, how they consider their daily relationships to their country and their world.