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The Realness Project, a full-length album from his funk liberation band. Britton Smith performing at Juneteenth Jubilee Brian Russell Carey While theatre is on pause, Britton Smith is pursuing freedom through his music with Britton & The Sting. At the beginning of the song "Drop," Smith exclaims, “If you’re heavy, get light now, now, now, now; this is your chance now, now, now.” It feels like the perfect distillation of the band’s manifesto. Britton & The Sting is more than a funk liberation band, it’s a collective of artists who pr...

WTJU Feb 12th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves The Classics a Day team has celebrated Balck composers before. This time around, I tried to avoid duplication with previous posts. It was easy to do. There is a lot of classical music by persons of color, both in the past as well as the present. A lot. Here are my posts for the second week of #BlackHistoryMonth for #ClassicsaDay. 02/08/21 Florence Price – Ethiopia’s Shadow in America (1932) According to Price, the work’s three movements portray the Negro arriving in America as a slave, his resignation and faith, and finally his adaptation, fus...