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Freedom Festival with SA-ROC and Fay Victor’s Mutations for Justice
June 8, 2019 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT
SPIRIT OF THE SUFFRAGETTES LAUNCH!
The seventh annual end of the season festivities of free food, art and music, featuring a special performance by Fay Victor and Mutations for Justice to launch our Spirit of the Suffragettes concert series!
Freedom Festival is free. Free music, free food, free art activities. At Freedom Square – 101st Street where 5th and 6th Avenues meet – in North Troy. Rain location is The Sanctuary for Independent Media, nearby at 3361 6th Avenue.
The Spirit of the Suffragettes Summer Festival presents…
SA-ROC & FAY VICTOR’s MUTATIONS FOR JUSTICE
Performing in Freedom Square on June 8th during the Freedom Festival, join us for the opening concert of the Spirit of the Suffragettes Summer Festival and Community Resource Fair!
Sa-Roc will be performing from 3:15PM to 4:30PM, and Fay Victor ‘s Mutations for Justice will be performing from 4:45PM to 6PM.
ACTIVITIES INCLUDE
- Music with Sa-Roc and Fay Victor’s Mutations for Justice
- Launch of Spirit of the Suffragettes concert series and Women’s Resource Fair
- Free hyper-locally sourced food from our Collard City Growers’ garden down the block and Denison Farms, with food from Unity House kitchens
- Bike giveaway courtesy of our 6th Avenue neighbors, Troy Bike Rescue
- Arts n’ crafting table
- Collard City Growers workshop: Getting Grounded: Transplanting Party with Collard City Growers
- Community resource tables
- and much much more!
Check out the video below to see our featured acts perform:
ABOUT SA-ROC
Sa-Roc is otherworldly-figuratively and literally. Since appearing on to the hip-hop scene in 2008, she has upended conventional narratives within the genre, her fiery lyrics peppered with themes of spiritual evolution, social injustice, and messages of empowerment.
An ardent student of the culture, she has crafted, alongside legendary Atlantan producer Sol Messiah, a fresh sound dubbed God Hop. Melding the raw energy and classical precision of the golden era of hip-hop with a lyrical ingenuity and consciousness that sets her light years ahead of her musical peers, Sa-Roc has quickly grabbed the attention of many of hiphop’s established luminaries.
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ABOUT FAY VICTOR
Over a 20 year span, Victor has released 9 albums as a leader to critical acclaim as well as seminal sideperson projects with leaders such as Anthony Braxton, Roswell Rudd, Nicole Mitchell, William Parker and Marc Ribot. Victor’s most recent release as a leader is Wet Robots (ESP Disk, July 2018) with her latest group, SoundNoiseFUNK, featuring Joe Morris (guitar), Sam Newsome (sop. saxophone) & Reggie Nicholson (drums).
Victor was the 2017 Herb Albert/Yaddo Fellow in Music Composition where she composed Faith, The Gift - a piece in tribute to the life of her mother, Faith E.S.Victor. In addition to Wet Robots, Victor also appears on Nicole Mitchell’s Maroon Cloud(FPERecords, August2018) recording and Marc Ribot’s Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 (ANTI-records, September 2018) featuring Victor as well as guest vocalists Tom Waits, Steve Earle and Meshell Ndegeocello among others. Victor is a music educator and vocal specialist of the highest order, giving clinics and workshops at home in New York City and around the world.
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ABOUT MUTATIONS FOR JUSTICE
Mutations for Justice is a rolling diary of the Trump administration using small compositional mantras or ‘memes’. The minimalist framework is built on repetition and developed through improvisation. Chanting protest music as a mutable entity to change how we see.
Conception, words & music written by Fay Victor. The culmination of Mutations For Justice will be a recording project of 45 pieces in 2020.
Some of the subjects covered in Mutations for Justice pieces are on immigration, gun violence, Stormy Daniels, poverty, race, the economy and creative license.
Members: Fay Victor voice and composer, Jaimie Branch trumpet, Mazz Swift violin, Sean Conly double bass, Michael Vatcher drums
ABOUT SPIRIT OF THE SUFFRAGETTES
The Spirit of the Suffragettes is an 8-week summer concert series and Women’s Resource Fair celebrating the history of these radical historical activists through an updated and more racially/economically inclusive lens. We’re presenting female and gender non-conforming musicians (predominantly women of color) alongside a resource fair highlighting the organizations and opportunities that support women and families in our extremely low-wealth neighborhood. Learn more about the series and the supporters
We are committed to lowering the barriers to access for events at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. For people who are hard of hearing or deaf, blind or low-vision, or whose physical limitations can interfere with a satisfying experience, let us know two weeks in advance so we can make appropriate arrangements.
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