TO SING AND DISCUSS SONGWRITING AT NORTHWESTERN
Singer-songwriter to tell the secrets of mixing music with social activism
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Singer, songwriter and gay/lesbian/transgender
activist Toshi Reagon has performed with Pete Seeger, Dar Williams and
Ani Difranco. On Thursday, Nov. 12, she will perform original music and
share her thoughts on songwriting and social activism at Northwestern
University.
The free, public event -- titled "So You Want to Write a Song"-- will
celebrate the unique place songwriting holds within the genre of
writing. Sponsored by Northwestern's Center for the Writing Arts, it
will begin at 6 p.m. at the McCormick Tribune Center Forum, 1870 Campus
Drive, Evanston. A question-and-answer session will follow.
Reagon whose mother founded the Grammy Award winning, all-woman a
cappella band "Sweet Honey in the Rock" -- began singing as a teen at
the Womyn's Music Festival in Michigan. She since has been called a
throwback to rhythm and blues artists such as Stevie Wonder and Prince
and to old school rock groups such as Led Zeppelin.
In 2008, Reagon performed with her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon, at
the 2008 Creating Change Conference of the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force Meeting. Elvis Costello has invited her and her band,
BIGLovely, to back him up on a "Late Show with David Letterman." She
left college for a professional music career when rocker Lenny Kravitz
asked her to be his opening act on a world tour.
For more on Reagon, visit her web site http://www.toshireagon.com/about.shtml. For more on "So You Want to Write a Song," visit Northwestern's Center for the Writing Arts at http://www.northwestern.edu/writing-arts/events/index.html or call (847) 467-4099.
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