Live music, speakers, giveaways, and spectacular art exhibition bags During the Holiday season incarcerated people experience many … [Read more...]
Aerial dance addresses mass incarceration
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...]
Nina Simone: legendary singer, songwriter and civil rights activist
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...]
Geto Boys in a league of their own in the hip hop genre
“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...]
Holiday songs for the cells: another COVID-19 victim
“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...]
N.W.A helped set the stage for modern hip hop music
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...]
Showcasing their talent the Soulbillies shake San Quentin
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...]
World class musician returns to SQ after long hiatus
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...]
The sounds of Woodstock filled the Catholic Chapel
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...]
Two Marin professional classic musicians join Zuill Bailey to perform at San Quentin
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...]