GLIDE Annual Holiday Jam: Still We Rise

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GLIDE is proud to announce the GLIDE Annual Holiday Jam: Still We Rise, a live, in-person and livestreamed benefit on Thursday, November 18 at The Masonic in San Francisco. After a year and a half of upheaval and distancing, the GLIDE Annual Holiday Jam: Still We Rise returns as an in-person event bringing the community together for music, storytelling and celebration to support GLIDE’s mission. Musical guests include 10-time Grammy winner and legendary artist Bobby McFerrin, three-time Grammy awardee and NPR Tiny Desk contest winner Fantastic Negrito, and the renown and uplifting GLIDE Ensemble and Change Band under the direction of Vernon Bush.  As is tradition, the evening’s Mistress of Ceremonies will be the voice of San Francisco, Renel Brooks-Moon. 

 

Please note: GLIDE is closely monitoring re-opening guidelines and is planning an event that aligns fully with San Francisco health and safety guidelines. Proof of full COVID-19 vaccination is required. The program will be livestreamed for those who prefer to watch from home.   

  

This year’s GLIDE Annual Holiday Jam: Still We Rise is dedicated to GLIDE co-founder and Holiday Jam creator Janice Mirikitani who passed away recently.  

  

 "GLIDE is looking forward to bringing people together safely to celebrate and recognize our collective service after a long time apart. This year is particularly special as we dedicate this event to our late and beloved Co-Founder Janice Mirikitani,” said GLIDE President and CEO Karen Hanrahan.  “The event will be celebratory while also highlighting how GLIDE continues to adapt and innovate to find solutions to address poverty, homelessness, and racial and social inequities.“  

 

The past 18 months have been devastating for individuals and families most marginalized in San Francisco, as the COVID crisis has exacerbated economic, health, and racial disparities. Throughout it all, GLIDE has remained steadfast. The 2021 GLIDE Annual Holiday Jam: Still We Rise will both celebrate and raise awareness of GLIDE’s ongoing, results-oriented work to reduce poverty, homelessness, and inequity. The event’s honorary co-chairs are Guy Johnson, a writer and Maya Angelou’s son, and Alicia Garza, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter.    

 

Each year, the GLIDE Annual Holiday Jam raises funds for GLIDE’s comprehensive services that provide opportunities to help more people off the streets and support policy reform and advocacy efforts to disrupt cycles of intergenerational poverty to realize a more equitable city.  

 

During COVID, GLIDE expanded services including greater mobile outreach across San Francisco, COVID testing and vaccines in the Tenderloin, more than 10,000 free, nutritious meals weekly, and expanded access to health, housing, legal, and other resources for individuals and families.  

 

Tickets are $50 - $100 for the in-person performance and include complimentary tasty bites. For tickets, and more information, including how to join our generous sponsors, with opportunities starting at $500, please visit glide.org/holidayjam, call 415.674.6145 or email festival@glide.org. Details of the livestream are coming soon. 

 

About GLIDE:  

GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. GLIDE’s integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community empower individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of the most pressing issues including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social injustice.  

  

  

WHAT:  

GLIDE Annual Holiday Jam: Still We Rise  A live, in-person and livestreamed benefit concert featuring Bobby McFerrin, Fantastic Negrito and the GLIDE Ensemble to support GLIDE’s services that address poverty, homelessness, and racial and social inequities.

   

WHERE:    

The Masonic in San Francisco at 1111 California Street (at Taylor)  

Or online: Visit glide.org/holidayjam for more information.   

  

WHEN:   

Thursday, November 18, 2021  

Doors 5:30 pm; Show 7:00 pm

   

WHO:   

Bobby McFerrin  

For decades Bobby McFerrin has broken all the rules. The 10-time Grammy winner has blurred the distinction between pop music and fine art, goofing around barefoot in the world’s finest concert halls, exploring uncharted vocal territory, inspiring a whole new generation of a cappella singers and the beatbox movement. Considered a music-industry rebel who singlehandedly redefined the role of the human voice with his a cappella hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” McFerrin has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea, the Vienna Philharmonic, and more. His latest album “Circlesongs” with his improvising call-and-response 12-voice choir Voicestra was hailed as “music … touched with magic.” by The Washington Post.  

  

Fantastic Negrito  

When you listen to Fantastic Negrito, you’re invited to hear the story of life after destruction. Each song is a real story about a musician from Oakland who experienced the highs of a million-dollar record deal, the lows of a near fatal car accident that left him in a coma, and is now in the midst of a rebirth that took him from the streets of Oakland to the world stage.   

  

The narrative of this man is as important as the sound, because the narrative is the sound. Songs born from a long hard life channeled through black roots music. Slide guitar, drums, piano. Urgent, desperate, edgy.   

  

Negrito burst onto the national radar by winning the inaugural NPR Tiny Desk contest in 2015, and has since won Grammys for all three of his albums: The Last Days of Oakland (2017), Please Don’t Be Dead (2019), and Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (2021), which includes features from fellow Tiny Desk winner Tank (Tank and the Bangas) and Bay Area legend E-40. His latest singles are “Root City,” an anthem for the Oakland Roots Sports Club, and “Rolling Through California”, a rallying cry that calls for collective action in the wake of drought, accelerating climate change, and the growing calamity of California’s annual fire season.  

  

The GLIDE Ensemble and the Change Band  

From its humble beginnings on Christmas Day, 1966, when it was only 10 singers and jazz legend John Handy, the GLIDE Ensemble and Change Band has grown to include more than 100 voices and eight musicians. Beginning with the first choir director, Faith Winthrop, and currently under the direction of Vernon Bush, the GLIDE Ensemble and the Change Band has benefitted from the direction of such talented leaders as Donnell Hickman, Ronald Sutherland, John F. Turk, Jr., and Clifford Coulter, and has teamed up with a host of notable musicians such as Sammy Davis Jr., Leonard Bernstein, Marvin Gaye, Bono, Bobby McFerrin, Maya Angelou, and Joan Baez.  

   

TICKETS/INFO:  

Tickets are $50 - $100 for the in-person performance and include complimentary tasty bites. For tickets, and more information, including how to join our generous sponsors, with opportunities starting at $500, please visit glide.org/holidayjam, call 415.674.6145 or email festival@glide.org. Details of the livestream are coming soon. 

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