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Kandia Crazy Horse live in Project Americana @ Symphony Space NYC on October 28

Thanks to my dear friends Ned Sublette & Constance Sublette, I will be performing later this month at an event related to their weighty tome about the domestic, Southeastern slave trade in America during the antebellum era: THE AMERICAN SLAVE COAST

Their book has won the 2016 American Book Award, and we are delighted to help illuminate the dark history about the networks of trading Virginia Africans into the Deep South, the roles of American Presidents Thomas Jefferson & Andrew Jackson aka “Sharp Knife” (known by we of Indian Country as a bane to Native Americans yet most are hardly aware of his ownership of enslaved Africans) in slave trading, and also bringing forth the narratives of the Africans brought to U.S. shores themselves — amongst my portion of performance, I shall be reading a “Letter From Virginia,” to represent ye olde home state.

This event of Project Americana will be at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre of Symphony Space in Manhattan, 28 October @ 8pm. Right now, a limited amount of $10 tickets are available online: PROJECT AMERICANA – THE AMERICAN SLAVE COAST: LIVE

Hope to see y’all out! Here’s the gallery of outlaw artists who I will be performing with:

kandiacrazyhorsephotobycamaradiaholloway (Kandia Crazy Horse by Camara Dia Holloway)

nonahendryx (Nona Hendryx (of Labelle))

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Carl Hancock Rux

 

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Constance Sublette

donaldharrison

New Orleans bandleader/composer Donald Harrison 

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Jonathan Demme

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Lezlie Harrison

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Ned Sublette by Constance Sublette