Kim Nalley Band "Freedom Songs: the Music of a Movement"

     Song has been an integral component of Black Americans' struggle for freedom, from coded Negro spirituals during slavery, to the explicit demands of the Civil Rights protest songs. Black Freedom songs have not only shaped modern American music across every genre, they have also been adopted throughout the world by countless peoples in their own quests for freedom; protesters from the Chicano Movement to the Egyptian Revolution could be heard singing these Black Freedom songs.

Kim Nalley

     Kim Nalley, widely acclaimed jazz vocalist and PhD candidate in American cultural history at UC Berkeley presents this concert-lecture on Black Freedom songs. Kim Nalley, awarded one of the most influential African Americans in the Bay Area, was the musical director of Stanford's Martin Luther King Institute's 50 year commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington. Joining her will be Tammy Hall on the piano, Michael Zisman on the bass and Genius Wesley on the drums. Repertoire will include hymns, spirituals, jazz, blues, R&B, folk and protest songs from the Civil Rights Era such as the ones performed by the SNCC Freedom Singers. We Shall Overcome

Kim Nalley - Vocals

Tammy Hall - Piano

Michael Zisman - Bass

Genius Wesley - Drums