Celebrate Black History Month!
5 Elm Hill Avenue | Boston | MA 02121
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Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts Presents
Make Them Hear You 2023!
A Gala Fundraising Concert
Featuring
TAKE 6
IN CONCERT!
+ Special Honoree
PATRICE RUSHEN
Plus performances by The Hamilton-Garrett Youth Choir,
The Hamilton-Garrett Drum Line + more!
TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW
SUN | FEB 26 | 6 PM
Berklee Performance Center | Boston
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PATRICE RUSHEN will receive HG's 2023 "Make Them Hear You" Award and
she will also perform a couple of songs!
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CHECK OUT
THE HAMILTON GARRETT
DRUMLINE . . .
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Exclusive VIP Tickets include A Champagne After Party
+ Meet & Greet Take 6 & Patrice Rushen
at Rochambeau Boston
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ROCHAMBEAU BOSTON | 900 BOYLSTON STREET | BOSTON | 02115 |
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TAKE 6 SINGS
"A QUIET PLACE"
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TAKE 6:
Take 6 (Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel Kibble, Dave Thomas, Alvin Chea and Khristian Dentley), heralded by Quincy Jones as the “baddest vocal cats on the planet!,” is the quintessential a cappella group and the model for vocal genius.
Six virtuosic voices unite in crystal clear harmony against a backdrop of syncopated rhythms, innovative arrangements and funky grooves that bubble into an intoxicating brew of gospel, jazz, R&B and pop. With praise from such luminaries as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Brian Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald and Whitney Houston, the multi-platinum selling sextet has toured across the globe, collaborated across genres, and is recognized as the pre-eminent a cappella group in the world.
With the popularity of televised vocal competitions such as the explosive a cappella show The Sing Off and the mania over singing driven comedy-dramas like Glee and Smash, Take 6 is the original torchbearer. Major public and corporate events remind everyone of this as Take 6 has triumphed among a gathering of stars including Celine Dion, Lionel Richie, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Nicks and Ne-Yo at Walmart’s 50th Anniversary celebration as well as at a SOLD-OUT audience and Standing Ovation at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards where Take 6 captivated the audience with their rendition, performing with and honoring legendary singer-songwriter Ben E. King, of his classic “Stand By Me.” As a group that knows no musical bounds, they then brought the house down with their tribute to folk icon Woody Guthrie with “This Land Is Your Land.”
Take 6 has come a long way from their days at Huntsville, Alabama’s Oakwood College where McKnight formed the group as The Gentleman’s Estate Quartet in 1980. The group eventually became known as Alliance but when they signed to Reprise Records in 1987 they found that there was another group with the same name, so they became Take 6. Their self-titled debut CD won over jazz and pop critics and they’ve never slowed down.
What makes the music and the group last this long? The answers are direct and simple: faith, friendship, respect and love of music. From their exceptional Christmas Show, to their innovative Symphony show, these qualities are at the heart of the Take 6 phenomenon.
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Feels So Real: The Complete Elektra Recordings 1978-1984
Re-released October 14, 2022
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After she mixed post-bop, soul-jazz, and jazz-funk with nimble ingenuity over three albums for the Prestige label, Patrice Rushen moved to Elektra, and with labelmates Donald Byrd, Lenny White, and Dee Dee Bridgewater extended the imprint's commercial reach while continuing to obscure the distinctions between jazz and R&B. Elektra VP Don Mizell promoted the term jazz fusion. Musician James Mtume referred to his similar approach as sophisti-funk.
Whatever the category, Rushen was in the top tier. She continually moved forward as a keyboardist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and producer with the five LPs -- Patrice and Pizzazz, which hit the Top Ten of the jazz chart, followed by Posh and the Top Ten R&B albums Straight from the Heart and Now -- expanded and gathered for this boxed set.
Strut Records previously summed up the era with Remind Me: The Classic Elektra Recordings 1978-1984, and while the single-disc set balanced deep quiet storm gems like "Settle for My Love" and "Where There Is Love" with danceable hits such as "Haven't You Heard" and "Forget Me Nots," it left much to explore. "Hang It Up," "Let the Music Take Me," "Don't Blame Me," "I Was Tired of Being Alone," and "Get Off (You Fascinate Me)," just to pick a track off each album, merely hint at the delights here that weren't anthologized.
Feels So Real, packaged fold-out style with an informative and image-rich booklet, also adds well over a dozen bonus tracks -- versions and dubs from the original 12" singles, previously unreleased extended takes, and pioneering New York club DJ Danny Krivit's re-edit of "Music of the Earth" (which Strut issued in 2010).
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PRESS RELEASE
Media Contact:
Sue Auclair | 617.359.5771
For Immediate Release:
January 30, 2022
Hamilton-Garrett Center for
Music and Arts Presents
Make Them Hear You 2023
A Gala Fundraising Concert
Featuring
TAKE 6!
+ Honoring
PATRICE RUSHEN
Hosted by Dr. Emmett G. Price III
Sun | Feb 26 | 6 PM
At Berklee Performance Center | Boston
With Showcase Performances By
The Hamilton-Garrett Youth Choir
The Hamilton-Garrett Drum Line
TICKETS & SPONSORSHIPS
ARE ON SALE NOW
Boston, MA—Hamilton-Garrett Center for Music And Arts will present 10 time Grammy® Award Winners TAKE 6 at their “Make Them Hear You 2023” fundraising concert at Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston on Sunday, February 26 at 6 pm. This exciting event will also feature a performance by Patrice Rushen, who will be honored with Hamilton Garrett's "Make Them Hear You Award 2023."
Tickets to this event are available at $32.50, $42.50, $52.50 and $100.00 and are on sale now at this link: TICKETS. A $250.00 donation to Hamilton Garrett Music & Arts offers Front Section VIP seating with an Exclusive Champagne After Party immediately after the show at Rochambeau restaurant (900 Boylston Street) with Take 6 and Patrice Rushen!). Tickets are also available at the Berklee Performance Center box office.
For more information and to check box office hours, contact [email protected] or call 617-747-2261.
Sponsorships and additional VIP seating are available for this event! For information, Contact Nancy McCabe at 617-549-3152 or email her HERE.
“Make Them Hear You 2023” will be a joyous celebration of Boston’s next generation of innovative young artists and the preservation of Black Music.
Hosted by Dr. Emmett G. Price III, Dean of the Center for Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music, the evening will include performances by the Hamilton-Garrett Youth Choir and the Hamilton-Garrett Drum Line. Music Director for this event is Hamilton-Garrett's Executive Director, Gerami Groover-Flores.
This gala event is a fundraising effort for Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts Academy which provides high-caliber formal music instruction to youth throughout Greater Boston, preparing them for a future in music that challenges inner-city youth to see themselves as positive producers of culture, music . . . and the arts as a whole, rather than merely consumers of it.
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QUICK FACTS ABOUT HAMILTON-GARRETT MUSIC & ARTS:
- Hamilton-Garrett Center for Music and Arts celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2022
- In just over 20 years, 100% of the students were accepted by the prestigious Boston Arts Academy and all of those graduates have gone on to college
- 44% of the students have been accepted to Berklee College of Music on full tuition scholarships
- Hamilton-Garrett is the first community-based partner for the Center for Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music
- Dr. Emmett G. Price III was named the Inaugural Dean for Berklee's Center for Africana Studies
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The Hamilton-Garrett Youth Choir!
"That's The Way of the World"
by Earth, Wind & Fire
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Sponsor Hamilton-Garrett!
Stand Up!
- $25k
- 12 VIP tickets + afterparty with Take 6 & Patrice Rushen
- 8 complimentary tickets for HGMA students & parents
I’ll Take You There
- $10k
- 10 VIP tix + afterparty with Take 6 & Patrice Rushen
- 6 complimentary tickets for HGMA students & parents
Shining Star
- $5k
- 6 VIP tix + afterparty with Take 6 & Patrice Rushen
- 4 complimentary tix for HGMA students & parents
Funk it Up
- $1k
- 2 VIP tix + afterparty with Take 6 & Patrice Rushen
- 2 complimentary tix for HGMA students & parents
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For information, Contact Nancy McCabe at 617.549.3152 or email HERE.
Hamilton-Garrett Center for Music and Arts is a 501-C3 non-profit organization.
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Patrice Rushen is an award-winning musician and composer who is also one of the most sought after artists in the music industry. She is a classically trained pianist who originally found success in the 70’s and 80’s with her signature fusion of jazz, pop and R&B. During this era, she composed and recorded the hit song, “Forget Me Nots,” which has been frequently covered and sampled by other artists.
Rushen is also a four-time Grammy nominee who has composed scores for movies and television. She has been the first female musical director for many of the entertainment industry’s top award shows, which include the Grammy Awards, the Emmy Awards, the People’s Choice Awards, the NAACP Image Awards and HBO’s “Comic Relief V.”
Considered one of the world's top jazz pianists, she has performed with many artists. Among them such esteemed names as Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Prince, Nancy Wilson, Ndugu Chancler, Carlos Santana, Christian McBride and Lee Ritenour. She is a record producer and an award-winning composer of symphonic music, some of which was commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Rushen is the ”Ambassador of Artistry In Education” at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, and is the Chair of the Popular Music Program at USC’s Thornton School of Music.
Rushen also spends time working with the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, NARAS “Grammy In The Schools” program and other organizations dedicated to establishing music education and mentorship programs for underprivileged youth.
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Gerami Groover-Flores, Executive Director
Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts
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Music producer, educator, scholar, and entrepreneur, Gerami Groover-Flores began her musical journey as one of the charter students of the Ruth Hamilton-Elta Garrett Music and Arts Academy. At the Academy, she gained a strong musical foundation that later prepared her for acceptance into the Boston Arts Academy, Boston's only school for the performing and creative arts. At Boston Arts Academy (BAA), she made history as the first female pianist accepted into the school. In 2008, her senior year at BAA, Groover continued giving back to Hamilton-Garrett by creating the project, Save The Music. This fully-funded grant provided full-tuition scholarships to students from the Martin Luther King K-8 School in Dorchester, MA, to attend the Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts Academy.
After BAA, Groover continued to advance in her musicianship by matriculating to the esteemed Berklee College of Music as a full-tuition scholarship recipient. At Berklee, she earned her Bachelors in Contemporary Writing and Production with a minor in Latin Music Performance Studies, as well as her Masters in Music Technology and Innovation. During her studies at Berklee College of Music, Groover began to work heavily in many musical genres, primarily focusing on Latin music. She worked as an assistant producer, composer, and music director for many of Berklee's Concerts and recording projects. Gerami has had the privilege of sharing the stage with many musical giants, including Brazil's finest, Ivan Lins; "El Príncipe de la Salsa”, Luis Enrique; Cuba's legendary pianist/composer, Chucho Valdes; world-renowned tenor and conductor Placido Domingo; and Grammy award-winning artist and producer Patrice Rushen, to name a few.
IAs an arts activist and educator, Groover is a scholar in the music of the African diaspora, primarily in North and Latin America. In 2016, she founded Gerami Groover Presents, Inc, a collective of global artists with a mission to preserve and present the music of the African diaspora through education and innovative technology.
Gerami is a firm believer in the power of music and arts education, always allowing herself time to give back to the current and preceding generations of youth. For years, she has traveled and worked tirelessly to provide excellent music and arts education programs to youth in the Dominican Republic, Southern Africa, and the USA. In 2016, Gerami was selected by President Barack Obama's administration as the first American fellow for the Mandela-Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Reciprocal Exchange. As a fellow, Gerami traveled to the Kingdom of Eswatini to work with YALi fellow Miliswa Mamba and the U.S Embassy, award-winning musicians, and government leaders to create an initiative called Emandla Emculo (The Power Of Music), which served as the first formal music education program in Eswatini.
Today, Groover serves proudly as the Executive Director of Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts and looks forward to realizing the organization's mission to developing Boston's next generation of innovative artists through the celebration and preservation of Black music.
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Emmett G. Price III is an internationally-recognized expert on Black Music & Culture, Afro-Diasporic sacred and secular expressions and Christian Worship. He has spent much of the past few decades writing, lecturing and conducting cutting edge research on bridging the generational divide. A well-regarded scholar and educator, Dr. Price has the unique ability to capture the hearts and minds of the most diverse and versatile audiences with his compassionate sense of humor, his amicable intellect and his quick wit. He is a noted print and broadcast media expert, as well as a widely sought-after keynote and motivational speaker.
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About Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts: |
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Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts Academy is named after two prominent members of the historic Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church [located across from the school at 551 Warren Street in Dorchester, MA], Ruth Hamilton and Elta Garrett.
Ruth Hamilton was a world-renowned contralto singer who was a proponent of Negro Spirituals. Ms. Hamilton passed away in 2001 and it was her desire for a community-based youth program to be created to preserve, educate and celebrate Black music and culture.
Elta Garrett, a well-known soprano, dedicated more than 50 years of her life as a music teacher in the Boston Public Schools. After retirement, Mrs. Garrett served as the founding director of the Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts Academy. Retiring after serving twelve years as the Director of the Arts Academy, Mrs. Garrett still actively supports the Hamilton-Garrett by serving as an active member on the Board of Directors of the Hamilton-Garrett Center for Performing Arts.
Hamilton-Garrett Music & Arts is honored to have been affiliated with the Historic Charles Street A.M.E Church for twenty years of service. An historic African Methodist Episcopal congregation, the Charles Street AME Church began in 1818, when a group of formerly enslaved people began meeting in a house on Beacon Hill and established the First African Methodist Episcopal Society. Leading up to the Civil War, the church served as a major meeting place for abolitionists and a key organizing site in the Boston abolitionist community’s fight against the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law.
Hamilton-Garrett Center for Music and Arts is a 501C3 non-profit organization.
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