American Mavericks Project Vl. 1: Quest is pianist Chelsea Randall’s interdisciplinary commissioning project celebrating the potent work of trailblazing Black Arts Movement poets and the legacy of her great uncle, the poet and editor Dudley Randall, through the lens of new piano music. Chelsea will perform six new pieces for solo piano by esteemed composers Carolyn Yarnell, Adolphus Hailstork, Joyce Solomon Moorman, Anthony R. Green, Regina Harris Baiocchi and Jeremiah Evans, inspired by the poetry of Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Naomi Long Madgett and Dudley Randall, who platformed these poets via his Detroit-based Broadside Press. Melba Joyce Boyd, Michigan’s Poet Laureate and Dudley’s biographer, and Jon Randall, Broadside poet and Dudley Randall’s nephew, will read the paired poems alongside Chelsea’s performances. Quest is dedicated to the memory of Nikki Giovanni. 

Details coming soon.