American Mavericks Project Vl. 1: Quest

American Mavericks Project Vl. 1: Quest is pianist Chelsea Randall’s interdisciplinary commissioning project celebrating trailblazing Black Arts Movement poets and the legacy of her great uncle, the poet and editor Dudley Randall, through the lens of new piano music. Chelsea will give the NY premiere of six new piano pieces commissioned for her American Mavericks Project celebrating Black composers, by esteemed composers Carolyn Yarnell, Adolphus Hailstork, Joyce Solomon Moorman, Anthony R. Green, Regina Harris Baiocchi and Jeremiah Evans, inspired by the poetry of Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Naomi Long Madgett and Dudley Randall, who platformed these poets via his Detroit-based Broadside Press. Melba Joyce Boyd, Michigan’s Poet Laureate and Dudley Randall’s biographer and Jon Randall, Dudley’s nephew, will join Chelsea onstage for poetry readings. Quest is dedicated to the memory of Nikki Giovanni. (This concert was rescheduled from Jan. 25th).