SONGS OF TRUTH 2025 featuring DESIRÉE ROOTS as Sojourner Truth / with DR. WELDON HILL
Schedule
Tue Nov 18 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
3108 West Cary Street, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23221 | Richmond, VA
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A joyous celebration and concert presentation of original blues, gospel, jazz and American roots styled songs from the Broadway-bound musical, “TRUTH” - inspired by the life, words & soul of Sojourner TRUTH.TRUTH is an original musical theater project inspired by the true life story and spiritual mission of SOJOURNER TRUTH, a woman once-enslaved in New York’s Hudson Valley, who grew up to take her own freedom, free her son, and become a pioneering champion of emancipation and women’s rights in America. The original Songs of TRUTH convey the wide range of feelings, struggles, triumphs, joys, and revelations of Sojourner’s incredible journey. Sojourner herself is both the musical's storyteller and central figure in the story within a story, as she takes us back in time along on her unique soul’s journey through an incredible, sometimes harrowing, oft times inspiring, moving and impactful life. SONGS of TRUTH is a selection of heart and eye opening songs from the full musical.
TRUTH invokes Sojourner’s inspiring presence once again, with her dignified wisdom, peaceful presence and majestic simplicity, and through her musical journey, Sojourner, being so compassionate and humorous even with all her scars and searing memories, shows how every human heart has great potential to be contagious in Shining the Light!
TRUTH was first conceived on the shores of Cold Spring Harbor and Huntington, Long Island, which were, by amazing synchronicity, the very first places visited by “Sojourner Truth” when she first began her holy mission to “heal the nation of its sins.” Aligning with the vision to bring Sojourner back to Broadway, where she once lived, TRUTH started its development in New York when the very first songs were presented at the United Nations in a special program on Women and the International Declaration of Human Rights. TRUTH traveled south to Washington DC, where a specially commissioned developmental production was mounted at THEARC Theater Center.Sojourner, who was enslaved in New York and never travelled south of Washington DC, is now coming for the first time ever to Richmond, Virginia - former capital of the Confederacy, a most compelling and profound place for Sojourner to speak to the fundamental issues of freedom and equality. The SONGS of TRUTH Concerts at Révéler are the first step in RVA to bring Sojourner’s musical story fully to life.
PRODUCERS: KENI B FINE is a Broadway and Off Broadway producer, accomplished lyricist, librettist, composer, playwright, director, singer-songwriter, actor, filmmaker, attorney and yogi, dedicated to using the creative and spiritual power of the arts to address vital social issues and to help heal and uplift the world. CRAIG MARTIN is a Co-Host and Producer of “The Good Road” - a nationally broadcast TV Series on PBS. He is a co-founder of Shockoe Records, a multi-faceted producer, content creator, marketing strategist and communications expert, and serves on the boards of many Richmond cultural and arts organizations.
MUSIC + PERFORMANCE: DESIREE ROOTS and DR. WELDON HILL are two of Richmond’s most beloved music and theater icons, who have performed together many times. Together with a band and cast full of Richmond’s most wonderful talent, they will bring the SONGS of TRUTH to life for a unique and unforgettable evening.
SHOW NOTES
Admission: $20 ($10 for students and teachers)
Doors: 6:00pm
Show: 7:30pm
21+ / 16+ must be accompanied by an adult
General admission. Seats are selected upon arrival and cannot be reserved in advance.
TICKETS: https://www.revelerexperiences.com/event/songs-of-truth-2025-11182025
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Where is it happening?
3108 West Cary Street, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23221Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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