Vision Festival 25: Breaking Free, Coming Home will display hundreds of artists of various disciplines—free jazz, poetry, visual arts, conversations— as one of the first in-person music festivals to return to New York City.
The Arts for Art sponsored event will take place over seven nights, July 22-23 and 29-30 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and July 24-25 and 31 at The Clemente in the Lower East Side, and all events will be in-person, outdoors and livestreamed.
In 1996 the First Annual Vision Festival took place to bring together luminaries from different avant-garde music scenes and to celebrate the important African American leaders of the music. That first Vision Festival was unique in its multi-arts focus featuring poets in collaboration with the music. Each year since the Vision Festival has brought attention to issues of social justice by curating panel discussions, such as “Decolonizing the Music: Reclaiming the Power of Creative Music in Communities of Color” and “How Funding Affects Creative Choices.”
In-person, outdoors and livestream performances will feature William Parker, Amina Claudine Myers Lifetime Achievement, Elder Ones, Jaimie Branch, Fay Victor, Nicole Mitchell, James Blood Ulmer, David Murray, Cooper-moore, James Brandon Lewis, A Tribute To Milford Graves W/ John Zorn, Andrew Cyrille, and many more. Additional programming will be announced in the coming weeks.
Pianist, vocalist, poet, and actor Amina Claudine Myers will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award on July 23. Arts For Art will acknowledge Myers work including her achievements as a pianist, organist, composer, and singer. Her mentoring of many young musicians around the globe, especially women, for which she has been a shining and all too rare example. She is an extraordinary artist who has added so much to the important tradition of African American extended musical forms.
Myers is a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (A.A.C.M.). She has recorded 11 albums under her leadership. Her recording career combines her gospel and blues inspirations with an improviser’s freedom and includes classic albums like The Circle of Time, Amina Claudine Myers Salutes Bessie Smith and her latest solo piano and voice effort Sama Rou (Songs From My Soul).
As live shows become safer, we’ll gather and share our creative visions to make space for a more compassionate world. Vision’s message this year is about coming home to our strong self. Our home is within. The past year gave us time to listen to ourselves and now we are home.
Arts for Art founder, Patricia Nicholson Parker
ARTS FOR ART PRESENTS
VISION FESTIVAL 25: BREAKING FREE, COMING HOME
JULY 22-31 in NYC
JULY 22-23, 29-30 @ PIONEER WORKS, BROOKLYN
JULY 24-25 & 31 @ THE CLEMENTE, LOWER EAST SIDE
VISION FESTIVAL 25 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
THURS, JULY 22 @ PIONEER WORKS
159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn
6:00pm Opening Healing Ceremony: William Parker – bass / Patricia Nicholson Parker – text, movement / Jean Carla Rodea – voice / Michael T.A. Thompson – drums
7:00pm Music for a Free World Septet: Dave Sewelson – baritone sax / Aquiles Navarro – trumpet / Steve Swell – trombone / Dave Hofstra – tuba / Ava Mendoza – guitar / William Parker – bass / Marvin “Bugalu” Smith – drums
8:00pm Cooper-Moore Solo: Cooper-Moore – piano
8:45pm Dave Burrell & Darius Jones Duo: Dave Burrell – piano / Darius Jones – alto saxophone
9:45pm Matthew Shipp String Trio: Matthew Shipp – piano / Mat Maneri – viola / William Parker – bass
FRI, JULY 23 @ PIONEER WORKS
Amina Claudine Myers Lifetime of Achievement Celebration
6:30pm The Amina Claudine Myers Voice Octet
7:30pm Poet Tyehimba Jess
8:00pm Generation IV: Amina Claudine Myers – voice, piano / Richarda Abrams – voice / Pyeng Threadgill – voice / Luna Threadgill-Moderbacher – voice
9:00pm Reflections: A Portrait of Amina Claudine Myers – Documentary film by Moon Lasso, produced by Arts for Art
9:30pm The Amina Claudine Myers Trio: Amina Claudine Myers – piano, Hammond B3 / Jerome Harris – bass Reggie Nicholson – drums
SAT, JULY 24 @ THE CLEMENTE, LA PLAZA OUTDOORS
107 Suffolk St, New York
5:00pm Creative Vision Youth Ensemble
6:00pm Composers Workshop Ensemble: Warren Smith – drums, percussion / Rod Williams – piano / Larry Roland – bass, poetry / James Zollar – trumpet / Patience Higgins – tenor sax / Don Slatoff – baritone sax / Lloyd Haber – drums, percussion
7:00pm ElectroFLUTTER: Fay Victor – voice, compositions / Nicole Mitchell – flute / Jamaaladeen Tacuma – bass guitar
8:00pm Morris / Smith Tracie Morris – poetry / Cecilia Smith – vibes
8:30pm Joe Morris & Tomas Fujiwara: Joe Morris – guitar / Tomas Fujiwara – drums
9:30pm Tony Malaby’s Sabino Quartet: Tony Malaby – tenor, soprano saxophones / Ben Monder – guitar / Michael Formanek – bass / Tom Rainey – drums
SUN, JULY 25 @ THE CLEMENTE, LA PLAZA OUTDOORS
107 Suffolk St, New York
6:00pm Whit Dickey Trio: Whit Dickey – drums / Rob Brown – alto saxophone / Mat Maneri – viola
7:00pm Pheeroan akLaff Liberation Unit: Pheeroan akLaff – drums / Adegoke Steve Colson – piano / Michael Gregory Jackson – guitar
8:00pm Raymond Nat Turner: Raymond Nat Turner – poetry
9:00pm Third Landing: Ava Mendoza – guitar / Alexis Marcelo – keyboards / Luke Stewart- bass / Devin Brahja Waldman – horns / Ches Smith – drums / Abiodun Oyewole – spoken word
9:30pm James Blood Ulmer ODYSSEY: James Blood Ulmer – guitar / Charles Burnham – violin / Warren Benbow – drums
THURS, JULY 29 @ PIONEER WORKS
159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn
6:00pm Elder Ones: Amirtha Kidambi – voice, harmonium, synthesizer / Matt Nelson – soprano saxophone, effects / Eva Lawitts – bass, effects / Max Jaffe – drums, sensory percussion
7:00pm James Brandon Lewis Quartet: James Brandon Lewis – tenor saxophone / Aruán Ortiz – piano / Brad Jones – bass / Chad Taylor – drums
8:00pm Julie Ezelle Patton Rock Paper Twister: Julie Ezelle Patton – poetry / Janice Lowe – piano / Paul Van Curen – guitar / William Parker – bass / Nasheet Waits – drums / Special Guest – Vinie Burrows
8:45pm Mara Rosenbloom Presents Flyways: Mara Rosenbloom – piano / Anaïs Maviel – voice, surdo / Rashaan Carter – bass
9:45pm Trio 3 + Special Guest: Oliver Lake – alto saxophone / Reggie Workman – bass / Andrew Cyrille – drums + Special Guest – piano
FRI, JULY 30 @ PIONEER WORKS
159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn
6:00pm Brandon Lopez Trio: Brandon Lopez – bass / Gerald Cleaver – drums / Steve Baczkowski – woodwinds
7:00pm Ingrid Laubrock’s Monochromes: Jon Irabagon – saxophones / Ingrid Laubrock – saxophones / Zeena Parkins – harp / Tom Rainey – drums / performing with pre-recorded tapes
8:00pm fly or die: jaimie branch – trumpet, voice, percussion / Lester St. Louis – cello, voice, percussion / Jason Ajemian- bass / Chad Taylor – drums, mbira, voice
9:00pm Moten / Lopez / Cleaver: Fred Moten – poetry / Brandon Lopez – bass / Gerald Cleaver – drums
9:30pm David Murray Octet Revival: David Murray – tenor sax, compositions / Lakecia Benjamin – alto sax / Terry Greene II – trombone / Josh Evans – trumpet / Mingus Murray – guitar / David Bryant – piano / Dezron Douglas – bass / Russell Carter – drums
SAT, JULY 31 @ THE CLEMENTE, LA PLAZA OUTDOORS
Tribute to Milford Graves
6:00pm Andrew Cyrille: Andrew Cyrille – drum set
7:00pm Joe McPhee Octet Tribute to Milford Graves: Warren Smith – vibes / Jay Rosen – drums/ Brandon Lopez, Michael Bisio– bass / James Keepnews – guitar / Jason Kao Hwang, Rosie Hertlein – violin / Joseph McPhee – reeds, brass
8:00pm Shahzad Ismaily: Shahzad Ismaily – multiple instruments
8:15pm John Zorn: John Zorn – alto saxophone
8:30pm Tribute to Milford Graves: William Parker – bass / Lee Mixashawn Rozie – woodwinds / D.D. Jackson – piano / William Hooker – drums / Francisco Mela – drums9:30pm Drum, Horn, and Dance Tribute to Milford Graves
In Person Tickets: Daily $65 | Full Pass $300 | VIP Pass $750
Streaming Tickets: Daily $15 | Full Pass $75
More information about Vision Festival 25 can be found on the Arts For Art website. Tickets are available now at Eventbrite.
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