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Black Women’s Roots Festival
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The third annual Black Women's Roots Festival celebrates powerful, pioneering Black women of blues, jazz, country and roots music. Showcasing a dynamic lineup of legendary artists, renowned performers, and emerging talent, this intergenerational, interdisciplinary program features the best vocalists, instrumentalists, and poets of roots music that you'll find anywhere in the world! Join us for what is sure to be an historic afternoon of music and culture.
Featuring:
The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol
Mary Stallings
Kito Kamili
Miko Marks
Emerging Artist Alecia Harger
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Freight & Salvage celebrates Black female pioneers of blues, jazz, country, and roots music with The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol leading a talented multi-generational lineup of vocalists, instrumentalists, and poets from jazz artist Mary Stallings, country vocalist Miko Marks, and Kito Kamill, pianist and songwriter, to artist/activist Alecia Harger, who is documenting the history and present of Black art and activism in the Bay Area at UC Berkeley.
Laura Fraenza
SF/Arts Curator
The Freight is a nonprofit community arts organization dedicated to promoting public awareness and understanding of traditional music—music that is rooted in and expressive of the great variety of regional, ethnic, and social cultures of peoples throughout the world.
The Freight is a nonprofit community arts organization dedicated to promoting public awareness and understanding of traditional music—music that is rooted in and expressive of the great variety of regional, ethnic, and social cultures of peoples throughout the world.