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Summer Updates
 

Unapologetic Body by The Francesca Harper Project
June 12-16, select dates & times at New York Live Arts, NYC

Work in Progress showing of Francesca
Harper's latest choreography at Women/Create Festival of Dance. I'm composing an original electronic score that consists of haunting melodies as memories, driving staccato rhythms of breakdowns, breakups and breakthroughs. This work is supported by the Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Initiative.

jessica Care moore's Black Women Rock! 
June 22, 9pm, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Jazz Festival

Join me for this year's #BlackWomenRock it’s a musical tribute to the iconic Betty Davis. I'll be sharing the stage with jessica, Ideyah, Militia Vox, Sate, Nik West, Steffanie Christi'an, Kimberly Nichole & more!

TRI-C JazzFest: Tribute to Bobby Womack  
June 29, 6pm, Playhouse Square, Cleveland, OH

Bandleader and bassist Christian McBride leads Avery Sunshine, Nigel Hall, and myself in a musical tribute for Bobby Womack

Bard SummerScape 2019 
July 19, 8:30pm, Fisher Center at Bard College, Hudson, NY

Don’t miss this one!  I’m performing with my Mamafunk band in Bard's SummerScape at the Fisher Center.  Put on your wig hat, hot pants and high heel sneakers and bounce to the beat!  It’s gonna be a whole lotta shakin’ and funk!

JUNE 12-16TH: WOMEN/CREATE FESTIVAL, NYC
JUNE 22ND: BLACK WOMEN ROCK, PITTSBURGH
JUNE 29TH: TRI-C JAZZFEST, CLEVELAND
JULY 19TH: SUMMERSCAPE, HUDSON

Summer Love Everyone!

It’s a been a jam-packed couple of weeks, well really months if we start with my Berklee College, end of year performance of the 2nd section of A Rose Out Of Concrete (w/Hank Shocklee 2018) an interdisciplinary work in progress.  The 2nd Act; The Digital Forest w/Berklee Students and Faculty presented at Berklee College in Boston at the end of April.  And of course, I have to shout out all the folks who made the month of May so incredible. To the ROCK SOLID WOMEN’S FESTIVAL: We came, we saw, we conquered - Kat Dyson, Divinity Roxx⁣, Shirazette Tinnin, Be Steadwell⁣, Judy Gold⁣, Vivian Sessoms⁣, Ali Caldwell⁣, Betty, Sarah Jaffe⁣, The Ki Ki Experience, Ultra Naté⁣, Liza Colby⁣, Sophia Ramos⁣. So grateful and inspired by all the phenomenal women and men who shared their talents on the Gramercy Theatre stage that night! Thank you to The Shed, LATASHÁ and Carrie Mae Weems, Lela Harper, Ashley August, Imani Nia, Rosangelica Lopez, Monique Letamendi, Bembona, the Illuminator, and the entire POWERPLAY team. And Congratulations to The Limon Dance Company who recently premiered new choreography by Francesca Harper at the Joyce Theater, with an original composition by yours truly. Now let's dive into this season of music festivals, performances in the park and outdoor excursions.

Hope to see you out there!
Nona Hendryx

Pictures above: (1)New York Pops with Cyndi Lauper (2)STREB Action Maverick Award Benefit (3)Tutu performance prep for Harlem Stage Gala (4)Magical hairstyle by Kevin Mancuso (5) Singing 'Try a little Tenderness' at Rock Solid Women Festival (6)Grand finale with the entire RSW crew
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