Jayanthi Rajasa with Deacon Elder Cornbread Harris, John Penny & Scott Soule

Jayanthi Rajasa is Creator of Homies in Harmony music program, Executive Director of Early Childhood Music Education and enhancement, Group music time enthusiast and leader / one on one guided exercise and coaching. A griot specializing in arrivals and departures and other celebrations and struggles of life. 

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​We are honored to have Jayanthi collaborating with pianist and living legend, veteran, and North Minneapolis resident Deacon Elder Cornbread Harris. At 98 years old, Harris is just one year older than Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been. They will be joined by John Penny on guitar and Scott Soule on bass.

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TKO Drum Line & Knock Out Dance Team

TKO Drumline and Knock Out Dance Team under the direction of Byron Hawkins, Director participates in multi-state parades and competitions. We provide services to youth age 5 to 18 and you can catch them at a local event in a City near you or around town in Minneapolis.

Black Poetics

Tish Jones is a poet, emcee, and Hip Hop Theater artist from Saint Paul, MN, with a deep and resounding love for Black people. Her work explores themes of Black love, liberation, politics, and Afro-Futurism. Jones has exhibited her work throughout the United States and abroad as a public performance artist for over two decades. Her writing can be found in We Are Meant to Rise (University of Minnesota Press), A Moment of Silence (Tru Ruts and The Playwrights Center), the Minnesota Humanities Center’s anthology entitled Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press), and more.

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Isha Camara is a Gambian-American poet and visual artist from South Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Masters at Randolph College in Creative Writing. Her work has been featured in MUZZLE Magazine, Poets.org and The Mahalat Review and Southeast Review. She has performed for the Madison Public Library, Walker Art Center and American Composers Forum. Isha seeks to sate her curiosities by layering myths with modern desires, questions, obsessing over these old stories by polishing them inside poetic forms and digital art.

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Photo credit: Digie Made Photography