Monday, July 20, 2015

AMHERST: 5/3

Music at Amherst, Amherst College, PO Box 5000, Amherst, MA 01002-5000, amherst.edu/go/musicatamherst 

Pinderhughes

FRIDAY, MAY 3 • 7:30 P.M. • GENERAL SEATING

Samora Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist/vocalist, interdisciplinary artist and surrealist whose work delves into all the things our society tries to hide—about its history, about its structures, and about the individual and daily things we all experience but don’t know how to talk about. His primary body of work, "The Healing Project", is an extension of the political commitments that Samora has held throughout his life and work: abolitionist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, internationalist, pro-Black power, intersectional, revolutionary. Pinderhughes has been known in the music world for a while now as somebody who is fiercely committed to the fight for liberation, and as somebody who goes past just making songs about issues and is actively involved in the struggle—it’s an everyday, lifelong commitment for him, not just a moment.