Musical Soulmates: Passion

532 Center Street,Santa Cruz CA 95060

20 November, 2022

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This evening featured the song cycle" Songs of Passion, by Richard Thompson, songs by Jeremiah Evans,songs from the American songbook, original settings by Tammy Lynn Hall. Musical Soulmates continues raising funds anw awareness for Musicin May, for Harmony Youth Choir, and this year, for Santa Cruz County Black Health Matters Initiative. Leberta Lorál possesses a clarion voice that has been described as both Mezzo and Soprano (Zwishenfach), as well as artistry that are both technically impressive and emotionally intense. Recent career highlights include, being asked to return to the Exploratorium once again for the opening night of their exhibit, "Glow", being presented in concert with Ms. Tammy L. Hall for two performances of their show, "Classical Broadway", featured in appearances at the Cinnabar Theater, San Ramon Public Library's Jazz Series, and SandBoxSandCity, being interviewed with Ms. Hall for John Michael's Rock Box, appearing again at Monterey County Composers' Forum at Hidden Valley Music, being invited to sing during the 25th African-American Art Song Alliance (she will sing a song that is based upon a poem she wrote in 2020 - she commissioned the wonderful Maria Thompson Corley!), being a part of the 2022 Christmas celebration at Grace Cathedral with Destiny Mohammed, singing Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Longmont Symphony in Colorado, being chosen to sing with others on Zoom in the 2021 Presidential Inauguration post-celebration with pop great Demi Lovato, travelling to Los Angeles where she performed compositions by Duke Ellington in a celebration of Black History Month at Forest Lawn, offering songs composed by Florence Price, HT Burleigh, Jeremiah Evans and Antonin Dvorak in “Musical Soulmates” produced by pianist Kate Alm, collaborating with 2022 Grammy winner, pianist/accompanist/composer, Tammy L. Hall in performances for the Ross McKee Foundation, Hall’s production, “A Time for Love” at the Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma, “To Nina Simone, With Love” in the Flower Piano series at the Botanical Gardens San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in September and at the Exploratorium in San Francisco for the opening of Museum of the Moon exhibit and the Christmas Tree Lighting concert at the beautiful Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. GrammyTM award winning pianist, composer, arranger, lecturer and musical director Tammy L. Hall began playing the piano at age 4 and is still devoted to that instrument, Music and its calling. Tammy has worked with and accompanied numerous vocalists and instrumentalists, including: Etta Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Melba Moore, Darlene Love, Linda Tillery, Holly Near, Alive!, Barbara Dane, Kim Nalley, Ph.D., Tiffany Austin, Queen Esther Marrow, Rhiannon, Mary Wilson, Denise Perrier, and the vocal trio of Brown, Sturgis & Brown; saxophonists Houston Person and David “Fathead” Newman, Kristen Strom, Tia Fuller, James Carter; guitarists Greg Skaff and Mimi Fox, Grammy award winning violinists Regina Carter, Laurie Anderson and Mads Tolling, “Harpist from the Hood” Destiny Muhammad, NEA Jazz Master and three-time Grammy award winning drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, Bassist/Bandleader Marcus Shelby, three-time Grammy award winning Bassist Ruth Davies and Dr. Angela Davis and most recently has begun a new collaboration with the sublime classical vocalist, Leberta Lorál. Tammy directed (and conducted) the Morgan State and Texas Southern University Gospel Choirs, along with Bay Area and Monterey Bay Area artists Brown, Sturgis & Brown, Valerie Joi Fiddmont and Leberta Lorál in celebration of the Monterey Jazz Festival’s 65th year. Kate is a lifelong musician with extensive and multifaceted experience: She is a pianist, organist, composer, collaborative keyboardist and accompanist, a director and founder of choirs, a concert series programmer ("Chamber Music at Lincoln &Center", 1995-1998, and "Musical Soulmates", since 2019), a producer, and performer. She has a special heart for a chamber music, which has been a part of her family for generations. Her creative focus includes her teaching and related acquired skills to ensure the continuing success of her thriving Suzuki Piano studio. She has a vocation for church music which has informed her entire adult life both in the Episcopal church as an organist and published composer, and in her long term immersive experience in Black Gospel music as a keyboardist, director, writer and singer. Her current Harmony Youth Choir ,serving BIPOC and ,under her directorship, mentored by BIPOC coleaders, and her Musical Soulmates concerts integrate her musical life and, alongside her Juneteenth Collective, represent an upswell in her radical collaboration with her community, especially with the BIPOC community in Santa Cruz, which has made her who she is. Her work is infused with vision, integrity, and skill. Her calling is to bring joy through the experience of music.