7/29: Toshi Reagon and Friends @ SOUTHPAW!
Photo by Molly Rubin
Intergenerations: Toshi Reagon and Friends
Saturday, July 29, 9–11pm; 8:30pm: Doors
Southpaw, 125 5th Ave. (Park Slope)
The legendary singer and composer Toshi Reagon and her band Big Lovely (Fred Cash, Robert “Chicken” Burke, Adam Widoff, Judith Casselberry) perform with special guests Tamar-kali, Karma Mayet Johnson, Sun Singleton, Stephanie Battle and more. Toshi has invited a new generation of Brooklyn women singers of the African Diaspora to join her in a multi-generational mini-fest of music you won’t want to miss.
This concert is part of Brooklyn Arts Council’s Black Brooklyn Renaissance, Black Arts + Culture, 1960 – 2010, sponsored by MetLife Foundation and presented in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. Visit www.brooklynartscouncil.org/blackbrooklynrenaissnce for more exciting events in this series.