Vision Festival 2024 Announced

Source: ARTS FOR ART.

VISION FESTIVAL 2024
BRIDGES
June 18, 2024 – June 23, 2024

Roulette Intermedium: 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
Films at Anthology Film Archive on June 16, 2024
Conference on June 14
artsforart.org/vision

In addition to a lineup of performers across six nights, Arts for Art is proud to open the festival honoring the spiritual and creative leader in NYC’s FreeJazz movement, William Parker with the Lifetime Achievement Award on June 18, 20243. We will close out the festival on Sunday June 18 with a grand celebration of the 100 year young, Marshall Allen as he leads the Arkestra. In between we have commissioned works by Matana Roberts, Coin Coin, Melanie Dyer’s new large ensemble, and Mendoza/Hoff/Revels. From start to finish this will be a celebration of Hope, Creativity and our community of Multicultural and Black Creative Artists and the beautiful audiences, staff, press and volunteers who participate.

Tuesday, 6/18/24
Honoring William Parker, LifeTime of Achievement Award

6:00 PM Invocation
William Parker – solo bass & poetry

6:30 PM “they tried to kill the sky ” from Parker’s Trail of Tears
vocals: AnneMarie Sandy, Andrea Wolper, Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez
Dara Bloom – cello / Melanie Dyer – viola / Gwen Laster, Jason Kao Hwang – violin
Dave Burrell – piano / Ava Mendoza – gtr / William Parker – bs / Hamid Drake – dr

7:00 PM Raining On The Moon
Leena Conquest – voice / Eri Yamamoto – piano / Rob Brown – alto sax
Steve Swell – trombone / William Parker – bass / Hamid Drake – drums

8:00 PM William Parker & Huey’s Pocket Watch
Isaiah barr, Alfredo Colon – tenor / Dave Sewelson baritone – sax
Rob Brown, Devin Brahja Waldman, Aakash Mittal – alto sax
Masahiko Kono, Colin Babcock – trombone / Diego Hernandez – trumpet
Colson Jimenez – bass / Hans Young Binter piano / Juan Pablo Carletti – drums
Vocals: Ellen Christi, Kyoko Kitamura – voice / Patricia Nicholson – voice, spoken word
Special guests Assif Tsahar tenor sax / Taylor Ho Bynum – trumpet

Wednesday, 6/19/2024

7:00 PM Davalois Fearon Dance

8:00 PM James Brandon Lewis / Chad Taylor
James Brandon Lewis – sax / Chad Taylor – drums

9:00 PM Matthew Shipp Trio CMA
Michael Bisio – bass / Newman Taylor – drums / Matthew Shipp – pianos

10:00 PM Nasheet Waits: Tarbaby
Orrin Evans – piano / Eric Revis – bass / Nasheet Waits – drums

Thursday, 6/20/2024

7:00 PM Jen Shyu: Fertile Land, Fertile Body (1st Movement)
Jen Shyu – composition, voice, violin, gayageum, Taiwanese moon lute /
Layale Chaker – violin, voice / Martha Redbone – vocals / Maeve Gilchrist – celtic harp

8:00 PM Ingrid Laubrock: Lilith
Ingrid Laubrock – saxophones / David Adewumi – trumpet / Yvonne Rogers – piano/
Adam Matlock – accordion / Eva Lawitts – bass / Henry Mermer – drums

9:00 PM Darius Jones Quintet
Darius Jones – alto sax / Christopher Hoffman – cello / Liani Matteo – bass / Nick Saia –
guitar / Jason Nazary – drums

10:00 PM James Blood Ulmer Black Rock Trio
James Blood Ulmer – guitar, vocals / Mark Peterson – bass / G. Calvin Weston – drums

Friday, 6/21/2024

6:30 PM The Isaiah Barr Band
Isaiah Barr – tenor / David Fraizer – drums

7:30 PM Miriam Parker Quartet
Miriam Parker – performance art / Lester St. Louis – cello, electronics /
Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez – vocals/ No Land – poetry

8:30 PM Fred Moten – poet

9:00 PM Trio Plex
Cooper-Moore – piano / TA Thompson – drums / Ken Filiano – bass

10:00 PM Mendoza / Hoff / Revels
Ava Mendoza – guitar, vocals / Devin Hoff – bass / James Brandon Lewis – tenor sax /
Ches Smith – drums

Saturday 6/22/2024

6:30 PM Thollem McDonas / ACVilla
Thollem McDonas – pianos / ACVilla – liveart projections

7:30 PM Amina Claudine Myers
Amina Claudine Myers – piano, voice

8:30 PM Matana Roberts COIN COIN midAtlantic
Matana Roberts – composer, horns, harmonicas, aux percussion, vocal, wordspeak/

Mike Pride – drums, aux percussion, vocal / Matt Lavelle- alto clarinet, trumpet, tin
whistle, vocal / Stuart Bogie – bass clarinet, clarinet, tin whistle, vocal / Cory Smythe –
piano, vocal, tin whistle / Mazz Swift – violin, vocal, tin whistle / Darius Jones – alto sax,
tin whistle, vocal / Ryan Sawyer – drums, aux percussion, vocal

9:30 PM Oliver Lake Poet

10:00 PM Holding Bridges Falling Down
Patricia Nicholson – composer, dancer, poet, vocals / DJ Marcellus / Ellen Christi – vocals / TA Thompson – drums / Devin Brahja Waldman – sax

Sunday, 6/23/2024

5:00 PM MiM & the Intergenerational Ensemble led by William Parker

6:00 PM Watershed Continuum
Rob Brown – alto / Steve Swell- trombone / Alexis Marcelo- piano / Whit Dickey – drums

7:00 PM Melanie Dyer’s Incalculable Likelihood (dedicated to Rebecca Elliott)
Melanie Dyer – Composition, Video & Sculpture / Tape – Voice of Mary Elizabeth Burton
Vox – Carla Cook (alto), Kyoko Kitamura (Soprano), Jason Walker (Baritone)
JD Parran (Woodwinds) / Shanyse Strickland (French Horn)
Charles Burnham & Gwen Laster (Violins) / Melanie Dyer (Viola) / Alex Waterman (Cello) Ken Filiano (Bass) / Alexis Marcelo (Piano) /Malik Washington (Percussion)

8:00 PM Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few
Isaiah Collier – sax / Nat Reeves – bass / Michael Ode – drums

9:00 PM Jason Kao Hwang & Cooper-Moore
Jason Kao Hwang – viola, violin / Cooper-Moore – didley bow, percussion

10:00 PM Marshall Allen & the Arkestra 100th birthday Celebration