If there’s one thing musician and marketing expert Seanloui knows, it’s how to make connections. His ability to build networks within our artistic community is what gave rise to the Black Renaissance Festival, which is currently celebrating its third year in Tucson and has grown to include an album, a podcast, and a plethora of events, both live and virtual, throughout the month of February. Catch up with Seanloui as he and Chad talk releasing music, building a movement, and the internet. Instagram Link Instagram Link

After a sold out week of performances in November, A Thousand Ways is Back! Analog tools for coexistence  A THOUSAND WAYS is a three-part performance in which your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. With two people, a telephone, a table, and a stack of cards, a new type of performance emerges. Everything we need is already here, just you and me.   Obie Award-winning theater-makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A THOUSAND WAYS. Taking place over the next year, this three-part performance is designed in response to social distancing rules that deliver us from isolation to congregation. Each distinct installment meets participants where they are.     This is an invitation. Will you attend? A THOUSAND WAYS takes a simple premise and turns it into magicTHE NEW YORKER PART ONE / A PHONE CALL — February 27-28, 2021Pick up the phone. Someone is on the line. You don’t know their name, and you still won’t when the hour is over, but as you follow the recorded instructions, a portrait of another person will emerge through fleeting moments of exposure. PART TWO / AN ENCOUNTER —Spring 2021You and a stranger meet on opposite ends of a table, separated by a pane of glass. Using a script and a few simple objects, a simple exercise of working together becomes an experience of profound connection with another person. PART THREE / An Assembly – When it is safe to gatherA public convening made up of you and everyone else from the project’s journey. Together we follow a shared score. This final installment is a chance to feel the power and complexities of group assembly.  Part One / A Phone Call is a one-hour experience for two people calling from their homes. You will need a fully charged phone to participate in this performance, 1 ticket per person. Each ticket holder will be required to connect using their own device. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event. It is recommended that members of the same household choose different times.

Join us to witness Elizabeth Goodfellow’s exquisite songs light up the Centennial stage. As a full-time percussionist, Elizabeth and her marimba are usually on the road, so we were fortunate to catch her during a moment of relative stillness. This set, featuring a collection of new original material written during lockdown, furthers our assertions that, thanks to artists like Elizabeth, a musical renaissance is on the horizon. Elizabeth Goodfellow is a Los Angeles-based drummer, percussionist, and vocalist (Iron and Wine, Madison Cunningham, boygenius, Per Gessle). She grew up in Northern California’s San Joaquin Valley and started playing drums at age eleven at local harvest festivals. Beth’s first professional drumming job was playing in the Air Force National Guard Band of the West Coast while studying classical percussion performance at San Jose State University. In 2003 she was selected to the IAJE’s Sisters in Jazz Quintet which performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival. After spending over a decade in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene, an appearance on America’s Got Talent in 2012 and a recording gig with Swedish band Roxette’s Per Gessle (En Vacker Dag, 2017) inspired her to move to Los Angeles where she sold vintage clothes in order to self-release and produce her first album on cassette: “Silly Sun”, 2018. Shortly thereafter she landed a touring job with folk artist Iron and Wine, where she was required to sing backup vocals and drum at the same time. In summer 2018 Beth recorded drums at Sound City with Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus for their boygenius EP. In 2019 Beth released her digital EP, “Sea Ranch”, and spent several months on the road as drummer with Grammy-nominated artist Madison Cunningham, as well as touring Asia and Europe with NYC jazz group The Hot Sardines. In early 2020 Beth released her digital single, “Milwaukee”. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Elizabeth focused on home recording, including tracking backing vocals for remote collaborations (Calexico). In the fall of 2020, Beth spent several weeks in Tucson, AZ, writing for marimba and vocals and releasing the short songs in a Bandcamp-only album, “Hunting the Silence”. Elizabeth’s latest single, “Terror and Trust”, was released on February 12th, 2021, and will be available on vinyl in summer, 2021 Link Facebook Instagram Twitter Bandcamp YouTube