Esperanza Spalding, Formwela 4 (live), Fox Theater, August 2, 2024 (4K)

Esperanza Spalding plays her song "Formwela 4-and takes a rare turn at the acoustic guitar-live in concert at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California on August 2, 2024. Formwela 4, featuring singer-songwriter Corey King, was released as a single in June 2021 and then appeared on Spalding's eighth studio album, Songwrights Apothecary Lab (2021). The album-which won the Grammy for won Best Jazz Vocal Album-contains songs created as a musical salve for the grief and isolation of the pandemic. Esperanza Spalding is a Grammy winning singer, songwriter, and bass player from Portland, Oregon. Joining her on stage were Morgan Guerin (keyboards / saxophone), Eric Doob (drums), Antonio Brown (dance / vocals), Tashae Udo (dance / vocals), Kaylin Horgan (dance / vocals), and Christiana Hunte (dance / vocals).
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Esperanza Spalding live tour dates (2024):
Aug. 1 - Los Angeles, CA @ Luckman Fine Arts Complex
Aug. 2 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
Aug. 4 - Seattle, WA @ Benaroya Hall
Sept. 13 - Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre
Sept. 14 - Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre
Sept. 15 - St. Louis, MO @ Music At The Intersection
Sept. 16 - Skokie, IL @ North Shore Center For The Performing Arts
Sept. 17 - Milwaukee, WI @ Marcus Performing Arts Center
Nov. 1 - 横浜市, 神奈川県, 日本 @ ビルボードライブ横浜
Nov. 3 - 港区, 東京都, 日本 @ ビルボードライブ東京
Nov. 4 - 港区, 東京都, 日本 @ ビルボードライブ東京
Nov. 13 - New Orleans, LA @ Orpheum Theater
Nov. 14 - Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre
Nov. 15 - Stillwater, OK @ McKnight Center for the Performing Arts
Nov. 16 - Salina, KS @ Stiefel Theatre
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Esperanza Spalding official bio:
Born in 1984 in Portland, Oregon, Esperanza Spalding (a.k.a. Irma Nejando) is an eaabibacliitoti (European-African ancestored being influenced by American cultures living in Indigenous Territories of Turtle Island) artist, trained and initiated in the North American (masculine) jazz lineage and tradition. Her work interweaves through various combinations of instrumental music, improvisation, singing, composition, poetry, dance, therapeutic research, storytelling, teaching, regenerative agriculture, urban land & artist-sanctuary custodianship, and growing in love as a daughter, sister, cousin, niece, auntie, great-auntie, friend, while collaboratively decolonizing within and through her hometown community. She co-founded and serves as lead curator for Prismid Inc., a non-profit that creates and stewards artist residency, performance, and workshop space in Portland, Oregon.
Esperanza continues to collaborate and perform in new productions of “…(Iphigenia)”, an opera written by Wayne Shorter, for whom she wrote the libretto and co-produced its 2021/2022 premieres // is currently developing a mockumentary in collaboration with brontë velez and San Francisco Symphony // researching and developing liberation rituals in jazz and black dance // and through the Songwrights Apothecary Lab continuing a lifelong collaboration with practitioners in various fields relating to sound, healing, and cognition to develop music with enhanced therapeutic potential.
With her dance company Off Brand gOdds (co-founded with Antonio Brown) and the Songwrights Apothecary Lab she leads multi-week performance, teaching, workshop, and therapeutic-arts research residencies in collaboration with colleges and arts venues across the Americas, and throughout the world.
Her forthcoming installation “I Love Being Black/Quit Saying I’m Black” opens in a near future, commissioned and produced by institutions who do the work themselves of learning about, reaching out to, and offering comprehensive support to eaabibacliitoti (and other ancestored) artists rather than demanding we take on the burden of proving our competency and worthiness to receive the resources required to deliver our medicine-uncontorted & well-rested-to our communities/the world.
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Formwela 4 lyrics:
You wanna be grown and let it go
You really didn’t let it go though
Now we gotta tiptoe around this hole
It’s aching in the ground of my world
You know we all see, and make believe
Please, just, what do you need, babe?
Dare to say it
Dare to say it
And though my home and stone may break
Dare to say it
Dare to say it
I can’t hold any more
Let me allow the beauty from above who made you that way
To be known love and get it made
To know you need it that way is to let me love you, babe
We know you need it that way
Now we know love to get it made
You’re gonna need it that way now we know love
To get it made
You’re gonna need it that way
Now we know
You tell it in the company of
Everyone who brought you in
To carry that river on
Please, just, what do you need, babe?
Dare to say it
Dare to say it
And though my home and stone may break
Dare to say it
Dare to say it
I can’t hold anymore
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[@TheRickHenryChristopherProject]

One of Esperanza’s very best. Beautiful.

[@fongfongb]

This is incredibly beautiful. Thanks for sharing this!

[@denish1]

Thanks so much for posting this. It's beautiful beyond words ❤️