Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour
Malcolm X Jazz Festival, Oakland
May 17, 2014
Tentative Order of BAM Myth-ritual poetic/music/dance drama
60 minute max
1. Processional Music: Wake up everybody (music can be recorded or live)
2. Drummers salute
3. Libation dance
4. Words of meditation /introduction
5. Song: I don’t know what you came to do
Mechelle LaChaux with Akestra Linda Johnson dancers, Poets Choir
Words for Mechelle
I don’t know what you came to do but I came to praise His/Her name:
Jesus
Allah
Oludomare/Olofi
Jah
Buddah
Marx/Lenin
Elijah
Garvey
Ida b. Wells
Malcolm
Betty
Sojourner
Harriet
Clara Muhammad
Amiri Baraka
Malcolm X
6. Marvin X reads (with Arkestra) What If, response from Poets Choir; Marvin X reads Amiri Baraka poem DOPE, response from Poets Choir
7.Ayodele Nzinga Woman on Cell Phone. Close out with song by Mechelle
8. Arkestra
Tacuma, Tarika, Earl Davis, Marshall, Zena, Marshall Trammell
Marvin X joins Zena in a duet with Again the Kora poem
9. Poets Choir
Paradise Jah Love
Genny Lim
Ayodele Nzinga
Toreada
Avochja
Aries Jordan
Kalamu Chache’
Umar bin Hasan,
Abiodun,
Lakiba Pittman
Geoffery Grier
10. Linda Johnson dancers present
Second Line processional exit through the audience: Dancers, musicians, poets
End