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LOOK FOR A ZOOM INVITE IN YOUR EMAIL an hour before the event starts each day.
In celebration of our 35th Anniversary, we're calling friends and family back home. OGs like Vernon Reid, Greg Tate, Konda Mason, Craig Street, Faith, Corey Glover, Maureen Mahon, Stew, The Family Stand, and David Ryan Harris will be joined by relatively newercomers like Van Hunt, Jackie Venson, The 1865, 100 Watt Heart, Blak Emoji, Shelley Nicole's blaKb¨ushe, and more in a musical marathon of conversation, community, and creative freedom. We will also have a 10th Anniversary screening of "Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone" with a Q&A with the filmmakers and Angelo Moore.
FULL DAILY SCHEDULE: (all times Eastern) (artists subject to change)
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FRIDAY, DEC 4
7p. Welcome
7:15p. RARE/RAWK/LIVE: New and classic material from Living Colour, Jackie Venson, Faith, Sophia's Toy, The 1865 and more in video mix
8p. blaXX rock: Black Women In Front with Joi Gilliam, Kat Dyson, and LaRonda Davis, President, BRC
9p. An inside look at "BLACK DIAMOND QUEENS" with author Maureen Mahon in discussion with Honeychild Coleman9:45p BLACK ROCK MASTERS: Some of the Best of BRC Moments on Film
10p DJ Set: DJ Reborn
11p End Day 1
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SATURDAY, DEC 5
7p. Welcome
7:15p RARE/ROCK/LIVE: New and classic material from Van Hunt, 100 Watt Heart [feat. Captain Kirk Douglas (The Roots) and Ricc Sheridan], Militia Vox, Don Byron, Marcus Machado, and more in video mix
8p. WE DID THA DAMN THING: BRC OGs reflect on the Early Years
8:30p BLACK INTO TOMORROW: An Afrofuturist Panel Discussion with Nona Hendryx, Will Calhoun, and more. Moderated by Rob Fields
9:30p CAPTURING COMMUNITY: An Aesthetic Panel Discussion with photographers Petra Richterova, William Helms and Earl Douglas, Jr., Executive Director, BRC-NY10p DJ SET: Special Surprise Guest
11p. End Day 2
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SUNDAY, DEC 6
7p. Welcome
7:15p RARE/RAWK/LIVE: New and classic material from Stew, The Family Stand, Three5Human, Thaylo Bleu, Slapbak and more in video mix
7:30p 10th ANNIVERSARY FILM SCREENING of "Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone"
9:15p POST-SCREENING Q&A with Angelo Moore and Filmmaker Chris Metzler. Moderated by Darrell M. McNeill, Director of Operations, BRC-NY
10p DJ SET: DJ Logic
11p End Day 3
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MONDAY, DEC 7
7p. Welcome
7:15p RARE/RAWK/LIVE: New and classic material from Band Of Gypsys Revisited Band, Screaming Headless Torsos, Shelley Nicole's BlaKb¨ushe, Militia and more in video mix
8p FOUNDER'S DAY Roundtable w/ BRC Founders Konda Mason, Vernon Reid and Greg Tate. Moderated by Earl Douglas, Jr., Executive Director, BRC-NY
9:15p WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: BRC Executive Board Members LaRonda Davis, Earl Douglas, Jr. and Darrell M. McNeill Chat the Future
9:45p THOSE WE'VE LOST: A Reflection
10p DJ SET: DJ Greg Caz
11p End Event
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Why BRC is still going strong 35 years later...
We value music—and the people who create it. For too long, Black musicians have been mined for their gifts and denied their economic rewards for mastering art forms, creating genres, countering oppression, voicing their humanity, uplifting society, and shaping and re-shaping culture. The Black Rock Coalition exists to hold people accountable for that alienation of opportunity. We will not support cultural amnesia or musical gentrification. We will create opportunities of our own. We will stand—as we have for over 35 years—for the complete creative freedom of artists of color. We will cheer them on today. We'll remember them tomorrow.
It’s why every resource we have—every dollar, every hour, every programmatic effort—goes toward giving outsider Black musicians the support they need to assert their right to be heard and create the works that move culture forward. We are volunteers with skin in the game. We do it for the love of our people and their contributions. We do it for everyone who’s ever had arbitrary limits placed against them.
The BRC is community.
The BRC is cultural exchange across genre, gender, race, class, and ability.
The BRC is a network of some of the best and brightest in Black musicianship.
The BRC is historical correction.
The BRC is visibility for disregarded voices.
The BRC is a grass-roots, volunteer-run, member-driven, non-profit, arts support organization.
The BRC is born of social activism.
The BRC has history.
The BRC has been musically outspoken since 1985.
