RIGHTSTARTER will premiere the song cycle Black/Pacific: Dispatches from the Noble Savage on August 14th in San José, as part of the San José Jazz Summer Fest 2021. Co-Presented by Mosaic America.

Sunday August 14, 2022

1pm

Montgomery Theater

271 S. Market Street

San José, CA 95113

Ticket info here

Black/Pacific: Dispatches from the Noble Savage  is a song cycle examining the call of the West, the lure of the Pacific, and distorted  historical views of indigenous Black and Brown humanity.   Vocalist extraordinaire Bryan Dyer (Bobby McFerrin's Motion, SoVoSo) will join RIGHTSTARTER  for this show.  Arlene Biala and Tshaka Campbell (former and current Santa Clara County Poet Laureates, respectively) along with poet Clarissa Mendiola will open the show.