Audiences are invited to participate in a unique vocal experience.
Composer/guitarist/improvisor/author Alan Licht will conduct the Digger Choir, augmented by invited guest artists, to perform vocal arrangements of John Stevens’ Sustained Piece (1968), Alan Licht’s Applause for BS (2003) and Yoko Ono’s John Let’s Hope For Peace (1969).
The concert will feature untrained vocalists as well as professional singers performing in various stations in the space, not on stage. The pieces will emphasize equanimity between the performs (and the audience) but also each performer’s individuality. The Stevens and Ono pieces are rarely, if ever, performed, and the Ono piece will be performed in Licht’s new arrangement for multiple voices and pre-recorded guitar feedback. The evening’s title is in homage to the English Civil War-era agrarian movement and the late 60s San Francisco street theatre “life actors” - social activists (which included actor Peter Coyote and the late Emmett Grogan).