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Walkenhorst’s sponsors major holiday event

January 10, 2022 by Richard Fernandez

Live music, speakers, giveaways, and spectacular art exhibition bags  During the Holiday season incarcerated people experience many different … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music, Recently Posted Tagged With: music, Packages, Walkenhorst

Aerial dance addresses mass incarceration

December 30, 2021 by Randy Hansen

An aerial dance show that addresses mass incarceration was brought to the public to raise the awareness of life behind bars and the parallels of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Music, Performances, Recently Posted Tagged With: arts, mass incarceration

Nina Simone: legendary singer, songwriter and civil rights activist

February 26, 2021 by San Quentin News

Born Nina Simone Catherine Waymon, Nina was a singer, songwriter and a civil rights activist. She recorded more than 40 albums between 1947 and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts, Music, Profiles Tagged With: Arts in Corrections program, music

Geto Boys in a league of their own in the hip hop genre

February 26, 2021 by Marcus Henderson

“This year Halloween fell on a weekend / Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treating,” sang the rap group Geto Boys on their hit single “Mind Playing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music, Profiles Tagged With: music

Holiday songs for the cells: another COVID-19 victim

January 31, 2021 by Vincent O'Bannon

“We Wish You a Merry Christmas” is one of many songs the incarcerated population at San Quentin will not hear carolers singing this year due to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Holidays, Music, Performances Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas Carols in San Quentin

N.W.A helped set the stage for modern hip hop music

February 13, 2020 by Marcus Henderson

N.W.A – Rap Group (1987-95) The N.W.A rap group was at first criticized as a misogynistic hip hop crew that glorified drugs and crime. But the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: N.W.A.

Showcasing their talent the Soulbillies shake San Quentin

October 23, 2019 by David Ditto

A Bay Area band stirred the souls of a hundred San Quentin prisoners with a high-energy Sunday night concert on Aug. 25. Fliers posted in the cell … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music, Recently Posted Tagged With: Bread & Roses, David Ditto, soulbillies

World class musician returns to SQ after long hiatus

October 23, 2019 by Kevin Sawyer

Blues harmonica player Mark Hummel, 63, returned to San Quentin State Prison in August to discuss his music and to play a few tunes for the men in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music, Recently Posted Tagged With: Country Music at SQ, kevin d. sawyer, Mark Hummel

The sounds of Woodstock filled the Catholic Chapel

August 14, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Kurt Huget’s guitar workshop for San Quentin inmates did it again—this time bringing the music of Woodstock to the SQ Cath- olic Chapel for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music, Performances Tagged With: guitar workshop for San Quentin, sounds of Woodstock

Two Marin professional classic musicians join Zuill Bailey to perform at San Quentin

June 25, 2019 by Kevin.Sawyer

Grammy Award winning cellist, Zuill Bailey, returned to San Quentin State Prison’s Protestant Chapel for a third time to perform for an audience of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music, Performances Tagged With: Marin Symphony, performances, Zuill Bailey

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