Yeli was there to play concerts, actually. It wasn't eve. There wasn't even a much o opportunity for like, a back and forth or Yei performed three concerts an a short amount of hours in different sections of the prison. That experience was so, i think, you know, ten years later, i don't even, i still don't really know how to describe it or talk about it. Changed my awareness, opened my eyes. But i also didn't process it for a long time, really. I remember, like, i, i, i knew that i would go back a lot,. Like i left the prison, and i, and i just knew s
In 2010, folk-singer and songwriter Zoe Boekbinder (http://zoeboekbinder.com/) visited New Folsom Prison for the first time. What they thought would be one interesting day turned into a decade-long collaborative project. Boekbinder visited the prison often over the next five years; performing and teaching music workshops quickly turned into the beginnings of collaborations with writers and musicians who were incarcerated within New Folsom's walls. Boekbinder collaborated on the first of these songs with Alex Batriz, and following that, was approached by many more writers about collaborations. This was the seed for the Prison Music Project and the culminating album, Long Time Gone, produced by Ani DiFranco. Out now on Righteous Babe Records, the album features work by nine incarcerated (and formerly incarcerated) writers.
The profits of Long Time Gone (https://amzn.to/31Y5phb) sales will benefit communities impacted by mass incarceration and the funds will be administered by the Southern Center for Human Rights. The contributing writers will decide, collectively, what projects will be funded. The writers own their work and will profit from royalties.
You can find Prison Music Project at:
Prison Music Project Website : https://www.righteousbabe.com/pages/prisonmusicproject
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