Dana Murray's "negro Manifesto" Album Release - Opener: Poet Gold at The Falcon

A presentation in The Falcon's continuing series - A Celebration of Black American Culture - to include artistic performance and progressive exploration and exchange.

"The purpose of [Negro Manifesto] is to motivate constructive dialogue between people who might otherwise not cross paths. I want to bring people together from different ethnic backgrounds, religions, sex, political affiliation, tax bracket, etc. Most people find that they actually have more in common than they do differences." - Dana Murray

This month, Dana Murray is releasing his socially conscious album "The Negro Manifesto" via Ropeadope Records. ...

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A presentation in The Falcon's continuing series - A Celebration of Black American Culture - to include artistic performance and progressive exploration and exchange.

"The purpose of [Negro Manifesto] is to motivate constructive dialogue between people who might otherwise not cross paths. I want to bring people together from different ethnic backgrounds, religions, sex, political affiliation, tax bracket, etc. Most people find that they actually have more in common than they do differences." - Dana Murray

This month, Dana Murray is releasing his socially conscious album "The Negro Manifesto" via Ropeadope Records.

After attending the Berklee College of Music on scholarship, Omaha native, Murray moved to NYC on the advice of jazz legends Max Roach and Victor Lewis. He toured the world with Wynton Marsalis and began gigging and recording with Donald Byrd, Jimmy Witherspoon, Roy Hargrove, Sherman Irby, Marc Cary and Russell Gunn, among others.

As a producer, he has worked with local and commercial labels as well as Blue Note Records releases. He collaborated with Eric Revis on his 2017 album "Sing Me Some Cry" as well industry heavyweights Aloe Blacc, Caron Wheeler, Orrin Evans, Oliver Lake, Nasheet Waits and more. Murray has held teaching positions at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and founded Dojo Percussion and it's parent company DMgroove Drum Dojo, which reaches the masses through the power of music and percussive art.


Dana brings us "Negro Manifesto", a purposeful album, evocative of artists from Gil-Scott Heron to Hip-Hop activists The Goats, from Coltrane to Philip Glass. Negro Manifesto is a reflection on our world from a man who is comfortable in all scenarios. It is intended to incite dialogue on the subject of social justice.

Blending jazz, hip-hop, spoken word and more, Negro Manifesto seeks the true roots of the system that creates and perpetuates injustice - a noisy and deep chasm of universal struggle. The album stands as a summary of history and a challenging artistic piece, touching on racism and sexism in the capitalist paradigm.

Throughout 2018, Dana will be touring, playing music and holding panel discussions on race, gender, and community, to help us learn and heal.

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