Toshi Reagon’s Annual Birthday Concerts
Wed-Sat, Jan 22-25
40th Annual Birthday Concerts featuring Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
Sun, Jan 26
The Sacred Music Show featuring The Bernice Johnson Reagon songbook
Toshi Reagon is a multi-talented and versatile singer, composer, musician, curator, and producer with a profound ear for sonic Americana. Her expansive career includes residences at Carnegie Hall, the Paris Opera House, and multiple festivals and venues nationally and internationally. A highly collaborative artist, she has worked with many musicians, choreographers, film and theater makers, including Meshell Ndegeocello, Alsarah, Lizz Wright, Urban Bush Women, Dorrance Dance, Ananya Chatterjea, Nona Hendryx, Carl Hancock Rux, Rhiannon Giddens, Robert Wilson, her band BIGLovely and many more.
Toshi co-composed music for two Peabody Award-winning films. She is a 2015 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, a 2018 United States Artist Fellow, an Andrew W. Melon Creative Futures Fellow Carolina Performing Arts. She is currently a Met Museum Civic Practice Fellow and a Bowdoin College Joseph McKeen Visiting Fellow. In 2021, Toshi received the APAP Award for Merit in the Performing Arts and was a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in Music.
In 2022 Toshi received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Emerson College. In 2011 she founded the Community based festival Word*Rock*& Sword. In 2018 she created the production company Wise Reagon Arts which produces the opera Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower Created by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon w/ Music and Lyrics by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon. As of 2023 the opera has been presented on 4 continents and has been seen by over 40,000 audience members.
Ongoing projects include Songs of the Living Community Choir, Sacred Revolution (A Song Cycle), The Bernice Johnson Reagon Songbook. LongWaterSong- Marine Mammal Meditations w/ Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Octavia’s Parables Podcast w/ adrienne maree brown and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Toshi continues produce, present and collaborate with artist and practitioners of all kinds. She continues to tour as a solo artist and with her band Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely. Her music can be found on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
Photo credit: Erin Patrice O'Brien
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Pricing
$36 for Wed-Sat shows (inclusive of $6 advance phone/web service fee; door price)
$42 for Sun show (inclusive of $7 advance phone/web service fee; door price)
Doors Open
6PM for 7PM performances
9PM for 9:30PM performances
For last-minute tickets, please visit our Box Office at 425 Lafayette Street. Web sales and phone sales end when doors open, and tickets may be available for in-person, walk-up sale right before the show begins.