Racial Justice Concert Series: Baltimore Boom Bap Society and Baltimore Ceasefire

Description

Please join this first concert with Baltimore Boom Bap Society in support of the Baltimore Ceasefire movement and learn more about the fight for racial justice in the Baltimore community.

Hip hop collective Baltimore Boom Bap Society will present an original performance to address root causes of gun violence in our community and bring healing to people and places affected by loss of life in Baltimore.

DJ/producers Wendel Patrick and DJ Dubble8 will host guest vocalist and emcee J Pope and bassist Jeron White to create a series of live, improvised compositions. Baltimore Ceasefire representatives will also share more about their critical work in the local movement for racial justice and how you can get involved. The performers will be hosted by Creative Alliance in a COVID-19-safe environment.

About Baltimore Boom Bap Society and guest performers

The Baltimore Baltimore Boom Bap Society is a collaboration between DJ/producers Erik Spangler (DJ Dubble8) and Wendel Patrick. Emerging from an eight-year music series at The Windup Space, this collective is conceived as a forum for experimentation and collaboration between local hip hop artists, while placing hip hop in dialogue with other forms of music. Wendel Patrick and DJ Dubble8 invite special guests from Baltimore and beyond to perform with them in diverse combinations, to explore a hybrid of free improvisation and beat-based composition. Baltimore Boom Bap Society has performed at the Kennedy Center, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Goucher College, Salisbury University, and numerous residencies at K-12 schools throughout Baltimore.

J Pope is a Baltimore-based artist who has traveled throughout the country performing as lead vocalist and emcee for the hip-hop soul band, J Pope and Funk Friday. Her work strives to highlight the beauty and tragedies of the lives of those disenfranchised by inequality and oppression.

Baltimore bassist Jeron White has been very progressive on the jazz/avant-garde scene. White leads his own group, Polarity, and is featured on several recordings. His discography includes Jamal Moore's "Organix Trio Ancestral Communion" and Theljon Allen's "Prospective."

About Baltimore Ceasefire

The ultimate goal of Baltimore Ceasefire 365 is for everyone in the city to commit to zero murders. We are starting by calling ceasefire weekends, where we ask everyone to be peaceful and celebrate life. In doing the outreach for ceasefire weekends, residents are:

• helping each other get the resources they need in their lives
• having conversations with each other about how to handle conflict differently
• making commitments to one another to be nonviolent in thoughts, words, and deeds, for at least the ceasefire weekend

By agreeing to sacred weekends without murder, and by receiving the resources needed to help us avoid violent encounters, we all will eventually agree to honor the sacredness of every day and put an end to murder. Throughout the year, this movement serves as a hub for organizations and citizens to support one another, work together, and share resources with the goal of seeing an end to murder in Baltimore City.

About the Racial Justice Concert Series

The Racial Justice Concert Series (RJCS), a collaboration among Johns Hopkins students, faculty, and staff, harnesses the power of music to bring awareness to issues of racism in Baltimore, and to support Baltimore organizations that focus on racial justice work. The RJCS features performances by Baltimore musicians and provides a platform for racial justice organizations to educate audiences about their efforts. The RJCS is cooperatively produced and funded by the Johns Hopkins Program in Arts, Humanities, & Health; Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine; and Johns Hopkins International Arts + Mind Lab.