OffBeat Magazine
The Contemporary Arts Center has announced that tickets are now on sale for The Prison Music Project hosted by Zoe Boekbinder. This will be a streamed concert of music from Boekbinder’s album
Long Time Gone, which will be available for streaming on March 26, 27, and 28, 2021 on the Eventive platform, featuring Ani DiFranco, Princess Shaw, BL Shirelle, and more. The album released in 2020 on Righteous Babe and was produced in collaboration with Ani Di Franco. It features work by nine incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated writers.
In May 2010, Zoe Boekbinder paid their first visit to New Folsom Prison, a maximum-security penitentiary outside Sacramento, California. 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 wi