“What Is Beautiful Never Dies.”
Roxbury Community College Mainstage Theater
Thursday April 5
7:00 – 9:00 pm
A multimedia event featuring live performances
unveiling for the first time songs from the
“What is Beautiful Never Dies” music project
in celebration of the power of the arts to
heal and build community.
Featuring musical performances by:
Dre Robinson, Dl, Letia Larok, BR, Lyrical,
Mann Terror, Prolyphic, The Foundation Movement,
Joey Benjamins, Deon Mose, Bay Holla, 2Face Dejavu,
Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor, J Hoard and The Green House People
and more. Spoken word by Reflect and Strengthen
Within the inner cities we have lost a long list of voices
that once helped harmonize the sounds of our community,
yet violence has tried to silence these voices and hate
has worked to remove them from the rhythm of life.
“What is Beautiful Never Dies” is a music therapy project
that links mothers who have lost their child to violence
with hip-hop artists and performers who will convert their
stories to song. Not only does music afford a more widespread
platform for their message, but it also heals and builds our community.
From the sounds of slaves giving directions of freedom and songs
along the Underground Railroad, to the anthems of “We Shall Overcome,” we have told our stories of success and losses in our music.
We have paired 12 families with recording artists who have spent the past month working with the mothers and siblings to write and record 12 tracks for the album.
There are many messages and lessons in the lives that have been extinguished throughout our inner cities.
The goal of “What is Beautiful Never Dies” is to seek out the message given to us by those we have lost as well as produce solutions that can be said to inform and ultimately save the next generation. Our music is our life-line, no different than the rhythms of a heartbeat that keeps us alive. It is an ongoing harmony in the human thread of all we do. Our music has helped and healed our community and it must do so again.
