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Spring/Summer Playlist Respirate Pinegrove
Endagered Birds Christian Lee Hutson The Alien Dream Theater hate to be lame Lizzy McAlpine, FINNEAS Actin' Up Miranda Lamber Your House Steel Pulse
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Music festival season has begun, indicating summer is almost here! Turn on your favorite surf-rock anthems and lounge by the pool, enjoying the warm weather. This issue of Rock & Roamer features interviews with Ella Ruby, who is preparing to release her debut EP, baby blue, Bria Elena, who just released her first single "Hotel," and Emily and Betsy Sokolosky, who own the letterpress company, Base Camp Printing and create custom show posters for Mountain Stage with Kathy Mattea. We also explore Harry Styles' third solo studio album, Harry’s House, Maren Morris' Humble Quest, Alec Benjamin's upcoming tour, and look forward to the Hollywood Bowl's Juneteenth celebration featuring the first all-Black symphony orchestra to ever play at the amphitheater. I hope this issue of Rock & Roamer surprises you, moves you, and gives you something to look forward to.
GASLIGHT INJI Booty Call bülow Psycho Maisie Peters All That She Wants Ace of Base HEARTFIRST Kelsea Ballerini The Way You Felt Alec Benjamin Caught in the Middle Alexander 23
LAUREN ELIZABETH CAMPBELL Editor-in-Chief
Waltz (Better Than Fine) Fiona Apple
Cover photo by Mira Horwitz
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SPRING INTO SUMMER Songs to play when soaking up the warm weather.
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BRIA ELENA Twenty-one year old Bria Elena recently released her first single, "Hotel."
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ALEC BENJAMIN Alec Benjamin plans to continue touring with (Un)Commentary.
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ELLA RUBY Twenty-two year old Ella Ruby from Seattle grew up a vocalist. Her earliest performances were with the Seattle Opera.
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BASE CAMP PRINTING Before social media, letterpress posters were used to promote concerts.
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'HARRY'S HOUSE' What fans are saying about Harry Styles' Harry's House.
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'HUMBLE QUEST' Humble Quest details Maren Morris' search for love, family, and career success.
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JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom will celebrate Black Independence Day in America at the Hollywood Bowl.
Photo 1 courtesy of Bria Elena | Photo 2 by Lauren Elizabeth Campbell | Photo 3 by Eliana Dunlap
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SONGS TO SOAK UP THE WARM WEATHER Texas Sun Khruangbin, Leon Bridges
Painted Yellow Lines Dispatch
Hold Back The River James Bay
Why Georgia John Mayer
Saltwater Geowulf
Woodland The Paper Kites
Bluebird Miranda Lambert
Honeypie Jawny
Flowers In The Window Travis
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Vampire Weekend
Nothing Left To Lose Mat Kearney
Get Away Surfclub
Oogum Boogum Song Brenton Wood
I Don't Know My Name Grace VanderWaal
Lovely Day Bill Withers
Flowerbeds Sfven
HEARTFIRST Kelsea Ballerini
Mr. Blue Sky Weezer
Ants Marching Dave Matthews Band
Music For a Sushi Restaurant Harry Styles
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BRIA ELENA:
Interview By Lauren Elizabeth Campbell Editor-in-Chief
Twenty-one year old Bria Elena has a heart for creating music. The Philadelphia native draws inspiration from her hometown and her life experiences. She recently released her first single, "Hotel." Bria describes her music and the process of releasing her first single: How would you describe "Hotel"? "Hotel" is an assemblage of a number of things. I would say it has a pop-country component but it also has a conventional country feeling with the guitar and the pedal, but it also pulls in a folksy singer/songwriter element. It blends a sundry of sonic landscapes coupled with lyricism depicting tangible items that describe how the girl feels she is being treated but also desperately craves being those things to get closer to the person she loves, but cannot seem to reciprocate that love permanently. It has a lot of sad undertones but the narrator is also very aware of his/her place in their temporary fling's life. I am really glad that this is my introductory song and is now running around outside of me. What is something you learned while recording your first single? I learned recording "Hotel" that I always have a say over how I want my music to turn out. At the end of the day, it's my musical creation, and I love being able to enlist some really talented people to help bring my ideas to life. What has influenced your songwriting the most? People! I feel like that is such a cliché answer, but I draw a lot of inspiration from talking to people and learning about people's
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Photo courtesy of Bria Elena stories and perspectives, watching movies, reading books, reading poetry, etc. I'm a big fan of the arts and gather a lot of influence from all different walks of life. Exposing myself to situations I typically am not in, or discovering new genres of music or film, opens up a world of creativity for me. I don't feel as if my life is that interesting, and I don't have a lot to complain about, so I feel like people would be bored if I wrote more personally. I will definitely have more material coming up that's more autobiographical, which I'm excited about as well as nervous about. Where did your love of music come from? Definitely from inside the home! My dad is a big music lover and always had music
playing of some sort throughout the home. He introduced me to the likes of Kelly Clarkson, Shania Twain, The Sound of Music, etc., and we even discovered our newer interest of contemporary country together! I also turned to music a lot in school when I was having a hard time and allotted a lot of time to discovering new music. What's next for you? Writing, writing, and more writing! I am focusing on expanding and building my craft and taking my time making a product that I really love and that I'm really confident in. Keep up with Bria Elena on Instagram @BriaElenaMusic and stream "Hotel" wherever music is available.
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ALEC BENJAMIN
By Lauren Elizabeth Campbell Editor-in-Chief
Alec Benjamin recently finished his spring tour with Sara Kays on May 15 at the State Theatre in Portland, Maine. His (Un)Commentary album was released on April 15, during the middle of the tour, and consequently, the tour's setlist featured songs predominantly from the album. On June 28, Alec Benjamin will embark on a European tour before returning to the states for the official U.S. (Un)Commentary Tour with stops including Austin, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, plus 23 additional stops. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased following links on www.AlecBenjamin.com.
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Alec Benjamin performing at KEMBA Live! in Columbus, Ohio on May 9, 2022. Photos in this story by Lauren Elizabeth Campbell
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"I APPROACH SONGWRITING ALMOST AS IF I'M SCULPTING" Interview By Lauren Elizabeth Campbell Editor-in-Chief
Ella Ruby is an artist in every form of the word. The 22-year-old singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington, grew up a vocalist, and some of her earliest performances were in Seattle Opera's Carmen and La Boheme. She began playing the guitar and writing her own songs in 2017. After graduating high school, she joined Pomona College's choir and glee club - finding time between studying ancient history to fuel her artistic ambitions. And now, in 2022, she is releasing her first original musical work. From her upcoming debut EP, baby blue, Ruby released the single "baths" on April 12. The indie-folk song addresses Ella's relationship to her body, childhood, and the notion that we all exist alongside all the past and future versions of ourselves. Ella's work as a ceramic artist often mirrors and influences her songwriting. Her Instagram points to how her clay art helps shape her songwriting, as can be seen in the below post showcasing one person laying on another with the caption, "finding joy in the way my clay practice influences my songwriting practice (and vice-versa) - never one without the other!" Photo by Mira Horwitz Her sound is inspired and emulates the work of Billie Marten, Brandi Carlile, Julie Byrne, and Shannon Lay. Ella describes her music and growing as an artist: How would you describe your music and sound? I would describe my music and sound as simple, lyric-centered, and vibrant indie-folk. I also think of it as luxurious and peaceful, relaxing into the shape of words and the
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honest experiences they describe. There's a lot of innocence in my songwriting, both because I've never really approached it in a formal way and also because, at its root, my music has always felt like something that just has to happen: it's a way of understanding an experience I can't make sense of, a feeling I'm having difficulty embodying, or the twining threads of a relationship that can only be unraveled with song. My music is necessary to me. And, I
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hope, comforting and relatable for those who listen. What drew you to release "baths" as your first single? "baths" is the youngest (and oldest!) song on my EP. I often think about it as the most childlike, and it's actually one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's full of longing for simplicity and ease, and as the song unfurls, it seems to struggle against the pressure to be anything that it's not. As time has gone on, its meaning has shifted and grown for me. When I wrote "baths," I was dealing with some health challenges and grappling with how they would impact my relationship with myself and with others. As I've moved past time in my life, I've started to see "baths" as a song sung to my younger self, and I cherish the innocence of the lyrics. In my mind, it almost says, "I see you. I hear you. And I'll hold you as long as you need to be held." As I set out on the journey of sharing my music with audiences more broadly, I hope that that message will cradle me and my listeners. How will "baths" fit with the sound of your debut EP baby blue? "baths" fits almost perfectly in the middle of the sonic landscape of the rest of the EP. It hints at some of the darkness of the other songs – of the collapse of childhood innocence and the longing for things that will never be – while showcasing the more gentle acoustic feel of some of the other songs in the collection. It also really reflects how the recording process developed my sound (which is innately acoustic, usually just me and my guitar) – "baths" is probably the most simple song on the EP, but already it begins to build upon that acoustic structure. The other songs on the EP feature a fuller landscape, also with production by Jon O'Brien, guitar and bass by Eric Cannata, vocals and piano from Gal Musette, drums from Kevin Farzad, and strings from Via Mardot. "baths" draws inspiration from your childhood. What would your childhood self think of "baths" as your first single release? Oh, she would be so incredibly proud. Thank you for asking that question. I honestly think that's what has pushed me to the point of sharing my music, thinking about how proud and excited little Ella would be. I've always dreamed about being a musician – when I was little, I used to sing
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SPRING/SUMMER 2022 with my dad and my older sister all the time – on the way to preschool, before going to sleep, at the Passover table; the examples are endless. As I've grown up, that dream has shifted and grown and wiggled around all over the place, but something has kept pulling me back to singing, to writing, to sharing my voice. So to have my first single be a song that is so meaningful to me and delves deeply into what it feels like to hold myself along all the points of my journey is just beyond magical. Do you believe being a college student and studying ancient history has impacted your music? Most definitely! But maybe more on the side of my wordiness in songwriting… In all seriousness, I think my work in clay probably impacts my songwriting in a more direct way. There's this grounded quality of clay that I think lends an earthiness to my songs and to my songwriting process as a whole. I approach songwriting almost as if I'm sculpting like my voice is an instrument guiding the sound and shape of my words in the same way that my fingers and palms guide the direction of my
ceramic pieces. Saying that sounds backwards, in a way – you'd think that it might go the other way around. But I like the lack of control that I consciously have over both of those processes – my body knows a lot more than my brain (even though it's hard to remember that sometimes!). What inspires you most as a songwriter? I would say I'm mostly inspired by being out in nature. I'm from the Pacific Northwest, and I go on a two-hour walk pretty much every day, rain or shine. I am constantly in love with the movement of trees, the stillness of mountains, the feeling of the sun on my cheeks and my nose. I'm the most alive when I'm outside adventuring. It helps me feel the most deeply and see (both myself and my environment) the most clearly. Of course, a lot of my songwriting also tends to happen when I'm heartbroken or about to be – I'm someone who tends to hold onto love perhaps longer than I should. I was listening the other day to Brené Brown's interview with Susan Cain about Cain's book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, and at one point,
Susan Cain said, "We are creatures who are born to transform pain into beauty." I think that that statement, in many ways, summarizes my songwriting. There's something beyond beautiful in the power we each individually have to honestly share our stories, let alone share them through music. Keep up with Ella Ruby on Instagram @__EllaRuby, on TikTok @EllaRubyMusic, and on Facebook, SoundCloud, and YouTube.
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LOVE YOURSELF
CREATE YOUR OWN HAPPINESS Girl On Fire Alicia Keys
Truth Hurts Lizzo
Scars To Your Beautiful Alessia Cara
Lose You To Love Me Selena Gomez
baths Ella Ruby
BTS Cypher, Pt. 4 BTS
Freckles Natasha Bedingfield
Lettin’ Go! Janelle Monáe
Confident Demi Lovato
Joan of Arc Little Mix
Oh No! MARINA
Extraordinary Machine Fiona Apple
Good As Hell Lizzo
Love Myself Hailee Steinfeld
Broken & Beautiful Kelly Clarkson
Feel Special TWICE
Pushover Etta James
The Way I Am Charlie Puth
ICY ITZY
Beautiful Christina Aguilera
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BASE CAMP PRINTING
Interview By Lauren Elizabeth Campbell Editor-in-Chief
Before social media, concert promoters used letterpress posters to let town folk know a show was coming. While today you won't always find these posters hung around town, you will often find show-specific prints for sale at concert merch tables as a personalized memento to remember the night. These posters generally are the first items to sell out on a concert night, with sought-after posters selling for multiple times their original price at auctions and on eBay. Emily Sokolosky founded the letterpress printing company Base Camp Printing in 2016, bringing her love of the printing technique to her hometown of Charleston, WV. While majoring in Graphic Design at West Virginia University, her professor, Joe Galbreath, introduced her to the university's collection of GramLee early American commercial wood engravings. WVU's GramLee collection is mainly made up of wood blocks that the S. George Company used in Wellsburg, WV, to print agricultural mill sack advertising art. "WVU has a collection of thousands of wood engravings used to print on sacks back in the 1800s. And it's my professor's job to oversee the collection. And so he's been archiving it and figuring out different ways to use it, and in my junior year, he gave a presentation to my class on how to use them. I was just blown away, like, oh my gosh, this is letterpress, printmaking, and graphic design altogether," said Emily. Emily saw the collection as an opportunity that helped influence her career path.
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Betsty Sokolosky of Base Camp Printing creates a letterpress poster for Mountain Stage. Photos in this story by Lauren Elizabeth Campbell "It was a light bulb moment for me, just like, how can I do this? I need to see more of this. And so I did. My professor set up an independent study for me, where I got to help him with his projects with that collection. So I helped him print the blocks in black ink, scan them, and organize them in a digital archive. And he's still working on that now. Because the collection is so big," said Emily. During Emily's independent study, she also got to create her own prints with the blocks
and learn the fundamentals of letterpress. "Letterpress is basically like a giant stamp. You set individual letters of movable type for your poster and then carve all of your imagery out of linoleum blocks. Pretty much just like building a template for the final print. Every poster is printed one at a time, one color at a time. So you have to figure that out. If we're doing color separations, you have to think about it in a way that all of these pieces will make up a final image of the final product. So it's a very manual, slow
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just asking if I could shadow or something. I didn't really have much expectation other than just getting in the door and seeing their shop. After talking to them, they offered me a job running their register. So I did that for a year at their old shop in the downtown location," said Emily. When Kin Ship moved to their current, larger location, they offered Emily her shop location rent-free for three years to start her own letterpress company. "They offered me this space rent-free for three years to start my own letterpress shop. Kin Ship was a lot of help," said Emily. After starting Base Camp, Emily's sister, Betsy Sokolosky, began helping her around the shop, and by the end of Base Camp's second year, became a 50 percent partner. "When Emily started the business on her own, I was living in Charleston doing a year with AmeriCorps. And once my year was up, I just started helping her around the fall of the first year. And then Christmas came around, and it was pretty busy. And so I was like, I'm going to help her get through
the Christmas season, and then I'll look for a job. But we really liked working together. And I enjoyed all the stuff that I was learning. And she was teaching me how to print and carve and everything. By the end of the second year, I became a 50/50 partner," said Betsy. Since then, the two sisters have worked on countless commissioned pieces, created poster print artworks hung in homes across the United States, and formed a long-term partnership with Mountain Stage, a music radio show produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed worldwide by National Public Radio. Emily looked back to her internship in Music City and reached out to Mountain Stage, wanting to collaborate with them to create show posters. "I reached out to a friend working there at the time. Hatch Show Print creates posters for every show at the Ryman in Nashville, so I thought, you know what Mountain Stage needs that would be so cool - a poster for every show they do. And so I
Emily (left) and Betsy Sokolosky in their Charleston, WV print shop.
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and this man saw it. He's 91 now. And he came to the shop and started grilling me and asking me all these questions about my intentions and whether I'm legit. He decided I was, and then I found out his father was a printer with his own personal collection. All of it was still in this man's basement, and he said, "I want to give it all to you," said Emily. The large cabinets that line the walls of Base Camp's shop all belonged to the man's father. "All of these cabinets are from him from his father's collection, and are all filled with type. And it's just priceless, beautiful stuff that he has given to us, and over the years, we've become really close with him. He's become our adopted grandpa, and he just loves that someone's using it. And since we've opened, we've had a lot of interactions like that where retired printers, someone who had a printer in their family, or they just know a lot about letterpress come in and want to talk shop or they have little blocks they don't know what to do with and give them to us. We've
had many of those interactions over the years, which has been pretty cool," said Betsy. Currently, Base Camp is working on creating cassette covers for their cousin. "He makes his own synthesizer music and we are creating inserts for his cassette tapes. It's always really fun for me to figure things like that out," said Betsy.
To commission and shop Base Camp Printing's poster inventory, visit BaseCampPrinting.co. Keep up with Base Camp Printing @BaseCampPrinting on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.
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Harry Styles' 'HARRY'S HOUSE'
Photos & album art courtesy of Columbia Records | Photos by Hanna Moon "This album is different from his previous work in that it shows off his various musical and vocal abilities. It also shows us who he is as a musician and what he can do with his voice. I’m sure that he doesn’t have everything in his repertoire, but I think that he’s showing us what he can do with his music." - Robin Watkins, 24 "I was very excited for this album, but I just don't like it, it's not that I'm a big fan of his music, and it's not that I don't think that his voice is amazing. Everyone is in love with this album, and I think that his technical skills are great, but I prefer his style of the previous albums." - Mattie Hopkins, 32 "I wish Harry would invite the rest of One Direction over to his house. I'm still not over their split!" - Rebecca Smith, 21 "I was so nervous the first time I heard listened to the album. I wanted to like it so bad. The second time I listened to it, I started to appreciate it more as the album went on. I also started to enjoy the various styles of songs on the album. After watching several YouTube reactions
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to Harry's House, I have now become a huge fan of the album." - Joshua Howard, 21 "Can we just talk about "Cinema" for a minute. My jaw dropped when I read the lyrics. If the artist was anyone other than Harry Styles, I would have said they were too much, but I have to excuse myself every time the song comes on." - Hannah Clark, 23 "Harry could release an album of animals sounds and I'd listen to it. Sorry not sorry." - Rebecca Garcia, 18 "Rerecord "Olivia!" - Olivia Stewart, 22 "The album is very different from his previous work, and it shows that he has grown as an artist. He seems very content and happy with what he's doing, and that's what makes me love the entire album. However, I do think that there are going to be critics out there who will still give him negative feedback." - Kelly Jones, 16 "A lot of songs off this album give me One Direction vibes, especially Made In the A.M. Because of that, I have probably liked and appreciated Harry's House more." - Rachel King, 23
"To my friends who tell me they don't like it, I just keep telling them to keep listening. After so many listens, the album just clicks!" - Daniel Russell, 24 "I'll be honest, I have found and listened to leaked songs that didn't make it on the album and those songs are probably my favorite. I buy into two different theories. The songs were leaked by Harry because he wanted the fans to have them and Columbia gave him a cap of the songs he was able to release on this album, or the songs leaked accidentally and another album is coming quick! I would love to be able to listen to "Anna" and "Baby Honey" on Spotify." - Irene Harris, 21 "The album that I love the most is Harry's House. It's very different from his previous albums, but it's still very satisfying to see him pushing the envelope with his creativity." - Kim Cook, 29 "Harry's House has to be his most cohesive album. It's really exciting playing it all the way through. The whole album gives a summer vibe and I'm going to be living it all summer long." - Sara Hill, 19
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ALBUM REVIEW: MAREN MORRIS 'HUMBLE QUEST' By Sebastian Potter Staff Writer
Humble Quest details Maren Morris' search for love, family, and career success while building a treasure map of how she has found happiness in her life. Humble Quest is the Texas-native's third major studio album release with Columbia Nashville, following 2016's Hero and 2019's Girl releases. The album's lead single, "Circles Around This Town," details Morris' move to Nashville to pursue country music and the ups and downs she has found chasing her dreams in the music industry. Morris met her husband, and one of the album's biggest muses, Ryan Hurd, during a 2013 writing session in Nashville. They wrote "Last Turn Home" for Tim McGraw together. And at 6'3", Hurd is undoubtedly the inspiration for the track "Tall Guys." In 2020, Hurd and Morris welcomed their son, Hayes, who is featured on the album's track "Hummingbird." "I wrote "Hummingbird" on the day I found out I was pregnant with Hayes. By the time we were recording, he was talking so I got to record his sweet voice to add to the top of the track," Morris posted on Twitter. Humble Quest is Morris' most mature album, and as an artist who has already found fame and success, she is now chasing something much more authentic. Something more humble. "That’s why I wanted to name the album Humble Quest, because it was just such a humbling experience to make. I didn't want it to feel heavy. I wanted it to sort of be this
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Photo & album art courtesy of Columbia Nashville | Photos by Harper Smith antidote to this time. I hope it comes across that way because it brought me out of a very heavy place," said Morris. If you are looking for a love song, put on "Detour," a song to listen to with your friends, "Good Friends," a song to play on a long drive, "Detour," or a song that sets the tone of the album, "Humble Quest." Just like Morris herself, Humble Quest does not disappoint.
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HOLLYWOOD BOWL JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION FEATURING AN ALL-BLACK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA By Lauren Elizabeth Campbell Editor-in-Chief
Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom will take place Sunday, June 19, 2022, marking the anniversary of Black Independence Day in America at the Hollywood Bowl. A diverse lineup of Black artists will take the stage to commemorate the day, including the first-ever appearance of an all-Black symphony orchestra onstage at the Hollywood Bowl.
The Re-Collective Orchestra, a 68-piece orchestra, will be conducted by Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra Thomas Wilkins and Derrick Hodge. Adam Blackstone and Questlove of The Roots will serve as the night's Musical Directors. The evening's lineup includes Anthony Hamilton, Billy Porter, the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, Earth, Wind & Fire, Jhené
Aiko, Killer Mike, Lucky Daye, Mary Mary, Michelle Williams, Mickey Guyton, Robert Glasper, and The Roots. More musical guests are to be announced from hip-hop, jazz, gospel, soul, and R&B backgrounds. Tickets can be purchased by visiting the Hollywood Bowl Box Office or at HollywoodBowl.com. Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
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