Pardon Our Analysis: An All-Star Gathering for Gil Scott-Heron performed by Black Rock Coalition Orchestra / Aloe Blacc / Swamp Dogg - FREE at Lincoln Center Out of Doors

29th Annual Roots of American Music Festival

Soul-jazz pioneer, poetic hip-hop inspiration, and self-proclaimed “bluesologist” Gil Scott-Heron, best known for the unforgettable fury of “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” was a documentarian of the American experience and radical rabble-rouser on par with Woody Guthrie and Lenny Bruce.

Vocalists: Martha Redbone, Sandra St. Victor,... [read more]

29th Annual Roots of American Music Festival

Soul-jazz pioneer, poetic hip-hop inspiration, and self-proclaimed “bluesologist” Gil Scott-Heron, best known for the unforgettable fury of “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” was a documentarian of the American experience and radical rabble-rouser on par with Woody Guthrie and Lenny Bruce.

Vocalists: Martha Redbone, Sandra St. Victor, Alkebulan, Gordon Voidwell

Poets: John Murillo, Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets, Willie Perdomo, Hanifah Walidah Robinson, Carl Hancock-Rux, Sapphire

Band: Brian Jackson, special guest; Aaron Whitby, musical director, keys; Ben Tyree, guitar; Fred Cash, bass; Dave "Smoota" Smith, trombone, keys; Chris Eddleton, drums; Lisette Santiago, percussion; Val-Inc, electronics; V. Jeff Smith, saxophone, guitar, flute



Scott-Heron’s influence is apparent in one of his many hip-hop generation heirs Aloe Blacc, who tempers contemporary social commentary with smooth soulful singing in tracks like “I Need a Dollar” and “Life So Hard.”



Boasting a voice critic Robert Christgau has likened to “an Afro-American air raid siren,” the irrepressible, under-recognized soul genius Jerry “Swamp Dogg” Williams has been recording socially conscious and often downright demented soul music since 1954.



Sponsored by Toyota. Roots of American Music is presented in association with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation. Pardon Our Analysis is presented in collaboration with the Black Rock Coalition and Poetry Society of America In cooperation with the Estate of Gil Scott-Heron

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