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*The funds will support the talented musicians who travel from Philly and California.
接觸即興舞醬CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM + MEDICINAL SONGS FOR 15 MINUTES AGO
BRIDGING A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TIME AND LANGUAGE, MEDICINAL SONGS FOR 15 MINUTES AGO IS PREPARED TO WITNESS/WELCOME NEW FEELINGS IN OUR SHARED LANGUAGE OF SONG AND STORYTELLING. AS THE WILD ANCESTORS OF THE FUTURE INDIGENOUS HIP HOP ARTIST, AND CONTEMPORARY DESCENDANTS OF ANCESTOR ARTIST-WARRIORS, MARITRI + PENELOPE WILL CLAP, GREET, HARMONIZE, AND PLAY WITHIN A 3-HOUR FRAMEWORK OF ORIGINAL SONGS.
Maritri is a Southern California native currently living in California after twenty years of being a professional musician in New York. She is a multi instrumentalist, ( piano, guitar , bass, cello and percussion), vocalist, composer ( ballet , film , theater) and educator. She has traveled the world playing and creating music. She has worked with Gladys Knight, Barbra Streisand, Meshell N’Dege Ocello Sekou Sundiata , Ani Di Franco, Michael Amante, Nona Hendryx, Black Rock Coalition, Burnt Sugar Arkestra,Geri Allen, Sekou Sundiata, Corey Glover, Marcus Machado and many others. She currently leads a conglomerate of singer songwriting multi- instrumentalists called the Soulfolk Experience. Their music is available on Spotify, Apple music and youtube.
During the pandemic, she hosted a show from her home five nights a week for an hour playing originals and favorites called Reunion of Souls on facebook at facebook.com/maritrigarrett
Penelope J. Armstead (they/she) is a daughter, queer artist and educator, activist, choreographer and songwriter based in Philadelphia, PA. Their most recent research in youth education has led them to write lesson plans in Hip Hop history and mindful goal setting in Camden, NJ K-12 classrooms. They have performed internationally and locally as a dance artist, including the first African-American musical theatre cast to tour Seoul, South Korea.*
In Winter 2023, Penelope will receive their C2 Certificate in Hip Hop Technique from Rennie Harris University, becoming one of the 1st historical training cohorts to align collegiate standards with the five Pillars of Hip Hop and Street Styles Culture, as mentored by North Philly legend Dr. Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris.
South Jersey bread. They are honored to live and play on Lenapehoking sacred UNCEDED land.
She enjoys visiting the library, laying in the grass, and movement freestyles on a very few special hills in Germantown, West Philly.
*DreamGirls, OD productions 2017.