The Holdout II Presents Revolutions in Rhythm with Will Calhoun

Express Newark invites you to the Holdout II by Derrick Adams for a multimedia experience by rock/jazz/world drummer Will Calhoun. Featuring his groundbreaking and transformative experiments in drumming, Will's photography and digital Afro-futuristic images will be projected with his live performance.

Doors Open at 5:30PM

Program begins at 6:30PM

Performance begins at 7:30PM

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

About Will Calhoun

Will Calhoun is a Bronx Born Two time Grammy winner from the iconic genre bending Rock band LIVING COLOUR; who has been inducted into National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. Will also Graduated from the Berklee College of Music, where he received his degree in Recording and Engineering.

He’s Produced/toured with Harry Belafonte, Pharoah Sanders, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Buster Williams, Bobby Watson, Public Enemy, Lauryn Hill, Yassin Bey (aka Mos Def) Herb Alpert, Mic Jagger, Oumou Sangare and many others.

Will has invested over 25 years of personal research in the Outback of Australia, Mali, Morocco, Senegal, Belize, and Northern Brazil to document and study the true History of the drums, rhythm, sonic vibrations and their impact on modern music. Will is an inventor and avid user of technology and its unique role in creating music.

On April 24th, 2023 Will received the "Cultural Vangaurd Award" from The Bronx Museum for outstanding performance, interdisciplinary cultural research, and reinvesting his talents/knowledge in the Bronx.

Will fearlessly blends African sounds with urban grooves, a bit of Jazz with a pinch of electronica, presenting music for the World.
Visit: Willcalhounart.com and Kliment.com to witness Will’s extraordinary and unique “Rhythm Art” canvas pieces, and his moving digital art images.

About the Holdout II

With “The Holdout II,” Adams revisits a social sculpture by Derrick Adams that he initially debuted at Alijira: A Center for Contemporary Art in Newark in 2015. Now, using a house-like structure and the format of a pirate radio station, “The Holdout II” is hosted by Sister From Another Planet (Andrea Rose Clarke, SFAP) and welcomes creatives and cultural practitioners to engage in conversation about gentrification, economic development, and land ownership, set to the curated sounds of SFAP.

About Blues People

“Blues People has always meant a great deal to me. It was a dramatic self-confirmation, as a personal intellectual and artistic ‘presence,’ but also as the expression of a set of ideas and measures that I have carried with me for many years. Most, even until today.” —Amiri Baraka

Inspired by the 60th anniversary of “Blues People: Negro Music in White America”,—the acclaimed book by writer, poet, political activist and Newark native LeRoi Jones, who later renamed himself Amiri Baraka—visual artists Derrick Adams, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Adebunmi Gbadebo, Cesar Melgar, and Accra Shepp have reimagined pivotal works of theirs to create five newly commissioned art installations at Express Newark that explore what it means to be a “Blues People” in the twenty-first century.

Host or Publisher Express Newark