Lara Downes: America Again
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(Photo: Rik Keller)
(Photo: Rik Keller)
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Lara Downes and Skip Dillard
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Published Nov. 26, 2016
The NYC launch for Lara's solo album "America Again", inspired by Langston Hughes’s poem "Let America Be America Again".
In
conversation with Skip Dillard of WBLS 107.5 FM, Lara discusses the
role of the American musician as activist and advocate, especially in a
time when the nation is in need of unity and healing, coming together
and moving forward.
About the album: laradownes.com/americaagain/
“Today,
as I write these words, we are living again in troubled times. For too
many Americans, circumstance and skin color still keep the promise out
of reach, the dream deferred. The hard-won rights and long-sought
justice for which our parents and grandparents fought are too easily
slipping away. The rifts and rivalries that divide us as a nation seem
to run deeper than ever. But still, we dreamers keep dreaming our dream.
This music is a tribute to the generations of Americans who dream the
impossible: black and white, men and women, immigrants and pioneers. It
tells the story of their journeys, their loves and longings, their
hardships and their hopes. American music is made of everything we are,
coming from so many different people and places, expressing so many
different dreams.”
— Lara Downes
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Thank you Bill! It was a beautiful evening. I hope you had a good and restful thanksgiving. My best L [Lara Downes]
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