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Instead of just one weekend, the Broadway Center is expanding the hugely successful Tacoma Fall Free For All to offer many free events throughout the year! Come enjoy your theaters, support regional artists, dine out, and explore Tacoma's vibrant Theater District.
Linda Tillery is a Grammy nominated vocalist, producer, arranger, speaker, and self-taught ethno-musicologist. For the past 16 years she has dedicated her artistic life to the research, teaching, and performance of the great African-American oral tradition of song, stick, and story - the ancestor of today's American popular song. In 1992,Tillery founded the Cultural Heritage Choir to carry out this important mission. She and the CHC tell the story of slavery and its lingering effects from the point of view of the slaves for whom music was often their only voice.
An articulate and provocative speaker, Linda has given lecture-demonstrations on the history of African-American Sacred and Secular music throughout Canada, Europe and the United States. For the Winter quarter of 2007, she was a resident artist at Stanford University and also conducted a residency at Williams College during August of that same year.
Linda has shared the stage with Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Sheila E., Kelly Joe Phelps, Vicki Randle, Narada Michael Walden, Boz Skaggs, Ensemble Tartit, Regis Gizalvo, Eric Bibb, Pauline Oliveiros, Odetta, Richie Havens, Wilson Pickett, Arlo Guthrie, Boz Skaggs,Tom Scott, Danny Glover, Angela Davis, Alice Walker, ODC Dance Company, Tandy Beal Dance Company, Dimensions Dance Theater and Zaccho Dance Theater. She has also appeared on more than 70 recordings.
Opening for Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir is singer-songwriter Naomi Wachira. Wachira was born and raised in a musical family in Kijabe, a small town in Kenya. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Tracy Chapman and Miriam Makeba, she blends elements of African rhythm, American folk, and soul, offering her take on issues affecting society and telling her story as an African woman living in the diaspora.
Please register in advance for your free wristband for admission: http://bit.ly/LindaTillery
