Lifting as We Climb: How We Start Again | MUSE's 42nd Season Spring Concert

Name: Lifting as We Climb: How We Start Again | MUSE's 42nd Season Spring Concert
Start: 2025-04-26T16:00:00-04:00
Location: The Carnegie

Schedule

Sat, 26 Apr, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Carnegie | Covington, KY

On April 26, MUSE proudly welcomes Los Angeles-based artist, educator, and composer Ayo Awosika for a powerful collaboration to close our 42nd season. Ayo, whose music blends jazz, R&B, and soul, brings a dynamic presence to our spring concert, How We Start Again. Together, we will premiere her new choral work, written for MUSE and inspired by bell hooks’ Love as the Practice of Freedom. This performance will also feature Ayo as a soloist, alongside MUSE and our community, in a shared musical experience of renewal and collective strength.
How We Start Again is the culmination of Lifting as We Climb, a season inspired by the words of African American activist Mary Church Terrell. A leader in both the suffrage and civil rights movements, Terrell championed the intersectionality of gender and race at the turn of the 20th century. Her legacy reminds us that progress is not solitary—we rise by lifting others.
As we reflect on our past work in Still Ain’t Satisfied and look toward what’s ahead, we ask: How do we define ourselves as a community committed to musical excellence, unity, social justice, and empowerment? How We Start Again is more than a performance—it is a call to rise together.

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Saturday, April 26 | 4:00
The Carnegie, Covington KY
Made possible with the generous support of ArtsWave, The Haile Foundation, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, The Ohio Arts Council, Community Shares, and Friends of MUSE.