“From Gospel to Hip-Hop and All in Between” is a copyrighted historical lineage presentation of African American music from the time of slavery in the United States up to today. This collaborative effort will include some of Boston’s best known talent, with assigned producers for each segment augmented by some of the cast members of the Oscar Micheaux Theater program with its’ intergenerational cast that is well known for their annual performance of “The Harlem Renaissance Revisited With a Boston Flavor” which is performed at the Media and Performing Arts Center at Roxbury Community College over the last five years. 

Boston Renaissance Charter School

TRIBUTES:

Ray Charles, Hon. Milton Wright

Gregory Hines, Shaquan Reed/Joseph Gonzalez

Broadway Tributes:

Tribute to: “Bubblin Brown Sugar, Ain’t Misbehavin and Arms to Short to Box with God.

Hip-Hop: Paige Academy

Is the latest phase of our music’s evolvement.  Never before has a music phenomenon has such an impact and the magnitude of Hip-Hop, once called “music from the gutter,” gangsta as well as thug. Hip-Hop is a statement regarding the conditions that many live and thrive, from the hard core of now deceased Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur to the soft rhymes of LL Cool J, Diddy, Missy Elliott, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and so many others with their social comments known as Hip-Hop. (To include back-up singers and dancers) One male and one female rapper.

Program Conclusion: