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A right-now story that uses the era of disco music to steep us in testimony and surface our glorious and soulful truths. Hard to resist the joy of a heartbeat pounding, hard to hide when somebody's calling your name. Hard to hide when you are bathed in beautiful light. Hard to be alone when everyone is moving together.
Featuring
Afi Bijou
Neil Dawson
Josette Newsam
Be Steadwell
Toshi Reagon
and others
Musicians
Fred Cash, Bass
Matt Graff, Drums
Kim Jordan, Keyboards
Adam Widoff, Guitar
“You’re Having Too Much Fun…” a work in progress, was developed in residency and commissioned in part by the Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
Toshi Reagon is a multi-talented and versatile singer, composer, musician, curator, and producer with a profound ear for sonic Americana. Her expansive career includes residencies at Carnegie Hall, the Paris Opera House, and multiple festivals and venues nationally and internationally. A highly collaborative artist, she has worked with many musicians, choreographers, film and theater makers, including Meshell Ndegeocello, Urban Bush Women, Dorrance Dance, Nona Hendryx, Carl Hancock Rux, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Robert Wilson, and her band BIGLovely. Toshi co-composed music for two Peabody Award-winning films. She is a 2015 Art of Change Fellow by the Ford Foundation, a 2018 United States Artist Fellow, and an Andrew W. Mellon Creative Futures Fellow at Carolina Performing Arts. In 2021, Toshi received the APAP Award for Merit in the Performing Arts and was a 2021 recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in Music. In 2011, she founded the community festival Word*Rock* & Sword. Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon created the opera Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, on tour Spring/Summer 2023.
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