Broad Statements Festival Brooklyn & Bang on a Can Bogotá!

This Sunday March 12, Leila plays a solo piano and set at Broad Statements mini-festival in downtown Brooklyn, info below. Bang on a Can recently brought their iconic marathon of new music to Bogotá, Colombia and featured Leila’s Black-Crowned Night-Heron for solo electric guitar as part of their festival. The Crossing also brought Adu-Gilmore’s “Colouring-In Book” to the American Choral Director Association Conference, alongside artists like Jennifer Higdon, Edie Hill, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, Ayanna Woods. Leila will present a composer talk at the New Zealand School of Music in April. She is currently collaborating instrumental and electronic compositions for pianist Henry Wong Doe and clarinetist Alicia Lee.

Leila recently appeared as a featured artist on Reverend Billy’s podcast, Earth Riot, alongside Savitri D, Joan Baez, and Sunder Ganglani. Listen to Earth Riot episode 52 here.

Yes, let’s review life again and again, around & around led by the women.  Because why are we passive in the face of the interruption of life by climate violence profiteers?  Our powerful ally is life itself.  So let’s review.  But not Disney’s “Circle of Life”, which has no toxins or Cop Cities.  Revolutionary life comes out of the bright darkness before birth and then with that 13th bullet returns us to the Earth.  – Reverend Billy