Speaker 1: Welcome to woke f with me Danielle Moody. Over the
Speaker 1: last few weeks, I've been featuring a number of fantastic
Speaker 1: artists whose work is being showcased at the Shed Cultural
Speaker 1: Center this summer in New York as part of their
Speaker 1: open Call program. This week, I am proud to present
Speaker 1: the final artists in our series, Troy Anthony, creator of
Speaker 1: the Revival. It is our duty? What is the Revival?
Speaker 1: And why is it our duty? Troy's project centers around
Speaker 1: the true history of Juneteenth and the importance of struggle, surrender,
Speaker 1: and salvation. Through his spoken word presentation, one that he
Speaker 1: refers to as a sermon, Troy urges a return to
Speaker 1: the original significance of Juneteenth, which you will hear him
Speaker 1: explain in our conversation. I wanted to share our entire
Speaker 1: half hour conversation in commemoration of Juneteenth to let you
Speaker 1: hear his passion and insight into this historic remembrance. As
Speaker 1: Juneteenth becomes a federal holiday, one that has rapidly become
Speaker 1: commodified by corporations, I hope you will listen closely to
Speaker 1: Troy's words and become part of the revival. After all,
Speaker 1: it is our duty Troy. You refer to this as
Speaker 1: not a performance but as a service. So let's start there,
Speaker 1: Because when I think about a revival, I keep talking
Speaker 1: about the time that we are living in right now
Speaker 1: as an opportunity to reimagine this country, this world, that
Speaker 1: oftentimes when we're at a space where things are breaking open,
Speaker 1: that it is an opportunity for us to create new space.
Speaker 1: And so talk to us about what the revival means
Speaker 1: and why that title. Yes, so I'm from the South.
Speaker 1: I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and I grew up
Speaker 1: going to these kind of revival services, sometimes actually intense
Speaker 1: in the middle of my neighborhood. And when I was
Speaker 1: looking for something that met this moment, I was trying
Speaker 1: to remember about like times or spaces that I've been
Speaker 1: in that helped me move from you know, point A
Speaker 1: to point B point A being like if I was
Speaker 1: in a place of like deep pain, something that moved
Speaker 1: me to joy, or if I was in a place
Speaker 1: of like not being able to see the way forward,
Speaker 1: that moved me to you know, seeing a clearer path.
Speaker 1: And Church has always been that for me. And also
Speaker 1: like the Christian context that I grew up in does
Speaker 1: not necessarily feed my spirit in the same way. So
Speaker 1: I aim to dissect, like what is a revival service?
Speaker 1: How what is the what is the technology that's being
Speaker 1: used in that service that gets us from point A
Speaker 1: to point B? And I found that like all that
Speaker 1: it really is are these songs that are helping us
Speaker 1: like hold space for our own journey. And so when
Speaker 1: I titled it the Revival, it's about coming back to ourselves.
Speaker 1: It's about finding a path to salvation, and salvation being
Speaker 1: about collective liberation. So there are three parts to a revival.
Speaker 1: There's it's usually about struggle, about surrender and salvation. Those
Speaker 1: are the themes. And so I've said, okay, well, we're
Speaker 1: going to honor our struggle. We've been through so much
Speaker 1: in the past year and a half and beyond and
Speaker 1: beyond and beyond, you know, so we're going to honor that.
Speaker 1: And how do we honor that? That's been a big
Speaker 1: question for me. And then it's like what does it
Speaker 1: mean to be in this moment where we're trying to
Speaker 1: come back, where we are trying to take all the
Speaker 1: lessons that we've learned and apply them somehow to our lives,
Speaker 1: Like what does it mean to honor this moment? What
Speaker 1: does it mean to surrender to this moment? And then
Speaker 1: how do we find a path to salvation through collective liberation.
Speaker 1: That's what the revival aims to do. And I also
Speaker 1: think I harp on this thing that it's not a performance,
Speaker 1: because so much about theater and art has turned into
Speaker 1: like this thing that we consume, yes, other than the
Speaker 1: thing that we like sit with or that helps us process.
Speaker 1: And so I'm just asking people to engage with the
Speaker 1: essentially the concert in a in a different way. You know,
Speaker 1: that's interesting because I think you know to your point
Speaker 1: and understanding your background, having grown up in the South
Speaker 1: and having grown up in the church, is the idea
Speaker 1: that you know, when you go to service, it is
Speaker 1: not a passive experience. You're not just sitting there and
Speaker 1: allowing the preacher and the choir to just wash over you.
Speaker 1: It is a spiritual engagement. It's an entanglement of sorts
Speaker 1: right about how you open up or a close to
Speaker 1: the experience and that you're having. I want to go
Speaker 1: back to the three parts that you laid out, the struggle,
Speaker 1: the surrender, and the salvation. You know, it was funny
Speaker 1: because when you said the surrender piece, like my neurons
Speaker 1: kind of lit up, because every day I post some
Speaker 1: type of like quote on my Instagram, and yesterday was
Speaker 1: about surrender and it was about surrender being not a
Speaker 1: giving in but a letting go. Yes, and you know,
Speaker 1: and I posted it and folks are just like, yes, Amen,
Speaker 1: that's it, this is what we're talking about. And so
Speaker 1: you know, walk me through for you with this piece
Speaker 1: what it means to surrender, because we understand the struggle
Speaker 1: part all too well, right, we understand the generational struggle,
Speaker 1: We understand what the struggle of the past year of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty into twenty twenty one for black people has
Speaker 1: been in terms of struggle. But talk to us about
Speaker 1: the piece about surrender and what that means and what
Speaker 1: comes up for you. Yeah. So there's a big part
Speaker 1: of the piece where I take people through how I
Speaker 1: processed the murder of George Floyd and more specifically, actually
Speaker 1: how I processed Brianna Taylor's death. Brianna Taylor is from Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: She still has not seen justice, and I've been really
Speaker 1: sitting with her as i've been writing this, and so
Speaker 1: there's a part of surrender that is about like, I
Speaker 1: have been through what I've been through, I've seen what
Speaker 1: I've seen. I have control of what I have control over,
Speaker 1: and this kind of like letting go and like and
Speaker 1: letting whatever happens happens. Is that surrender moment and getting
Speaker 1: there actually takes a lot of work. Yes, it's like
Speaker 1: so hard to let go, right, and then when you
Speaker 1: think about all the things that you need to allow
Speaker 1: to happen. One of the things that I had to
Speaker 1: do in this pandemic was I had to allow myself
Speaker 1: to sit in rage. That's not an emotion that I
Speaker 1: allow myself to sit in. But as soon as I
Speaker 1: let myself just be mad, right, as soon as I
Speaker 1: gave myself space to do that, I could continue my
Speaker 1: grieving process. You know, I had to surrender to like,
Speaker 1: oh I have there are some things about myself that
Speaker 1: I don't love, you know, and I just had to
Speaker 1: sit with them and go, Okay, these things are here,
Speaker 1: Like what can I do about them? Or I'm like wait,
Speaker 1: like I've actually been holding onto all this shame, Like
Speaker 1: why am I holding onto that? Like, let me surrender
Speaker 1: and just let go of that, Like what am I
Speaker 1: holding onto it for? So I think for me, this
Speaker 1: pandemic has taught me a lot about how much I'm
Speaker 1: not in control of, how much I actually don't have
Speaker 1: agency over, and when I allowed that to exist next
Speaker 1: to all the other things that I actually can do right,
Speaker 1: when I surrender, that allows me actually to move forward
Speaker 1: to something and to say what tools do I have?
Speaker 1: So the Revival Service kind of asks us to sit
Speaker 1: with that and also kind of provides us some tools
Speaker 1: through music to kind of move us forward in that way.
Speaker 1: You know, I have been talking so often on woke
Speaker 1: app about well, one unlike you, my natural state is rage,
Speaker 1: and so you know there are some people that might No,
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone would actually say that about me.
Speaker 1: My natural state is rage, and I have, you know,
Speaker 1: through the pandemic, have been learning how to let go right.
Speaker 1: That part of the process of trying to break things open,
Speaker 1: and for my work, it is through politics, right, and
Speaker 1: through letting people understand their power and responsibilities citizens of
Speaker 1: this country right to be active and activate themselves. And
Speaker 1: the part of doing that is, like James Baldwin had said,
Speaker 1: is that the more conscious that you become about this
Speaker 1: country the more enraged you are, right, particularly as black people,
Speaker 1: and so, you know, do you feel as an artist
Speaker 1: that in some essence there needs to be some struggle
Speaker 1: and strife and that there is something productive about moving
Speaker 1: through trauma to create something new. Somebody had shared that
Speaker 1: thought on social media earlier this week, and I've been
Speaker 1: sitting with it as a content creator, not as an artist,
Speaker 1: but thinking to myself, can you create without there being
Speaker 1: some type of conflict? I think, you know, conflict drives
Speaker 1: a lot of art, you know, even in music, like
Speaker 1: the way that I compose, like it's all about conflict
Speaker 1: and resolution, tension and resolve. So that just exists, right,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't for me like conflict doesn't have like
Speaker 1: a bad thing, Like yes, sometimes the conflict is the
Speaker 1: catalyst right for us to move through. I think the
Speaker 1: thing that I have been sitting with is, you know
Speaker 1: a lot of art that deals with trauma, especially black trauma.
Speaker 1: It's like if it's a play, it's like you go
Speaker 1: through the whole play. By the end of the play
Speaker 1: you realize that, like, oh, trauma exists. For me, it's
Speaker 1: about starting with the trauma and saying like, Okay, this exists,
Speaker 1: and now I'm going to spend an hour and a
Speaker 1: half on the path to healing, Like, how do we
Speaker 1: work through this? It's the moving through that I'm interested
Speaker 1: in right now, and I feel like we don't do
Speaker 1: that enough. And then just what you said, when you
Speaker 1: start to move through, then you can start to dream
Speaker 1: and hope and build, you know, And it's like sitting
Speaker 1: with trauma at the same time as being able to
Speaker 1: activate our imagination about Okay, what will happen after I
Speaker 1: burn it all down? Right, Like, those two things hand
Speaker 1: in hand is actually what leads to our liberation. And
Speaker 1: it's not one or the other. You have to have
Speaker 1: them both. So I guess the short answer to your
Speaker 1: question is yes, I think that conflict is a major
Speaker 1: part of the equation. You know, I love what you
Speaker 1: just said about being able to activate that kind of
Speaker 1: dream space through the action of burning it all down
Speaker 1: because you know, you realize and what I am starting
Speaker 1: to understand is that when everything is in such complete disarray,
Speaker 1: right when we're looking at we're living through a global
Speaker 1: health pandemic, we are living through racial uprisings, there's like
Speaker 1: a return and a resurgence of white nationalism. There is
Speaker 1: you know, this continuation of black trauma that is played
Speaker 1: over and over again like horrible porn on cable news
Speaker 1: on a regular basis. When you see all of this happening,
Speaker 1: there is like this pit that arrives and you see
Speaker 1: all of the destruction that is happening. But through that
Speaker 1: same time, it's just like, well, what happens if it
Speaker 1: does all burn down? Like then what right? Like then
Speaker 1: what right? Because through the mud comes the lotus flower,
Speaker 1: through the ashes comes the phoenix. It's like, you can
Speaker 1: imagine so much more, I think, in a place of
Speaker 1: devastation because everything that you did know is no longer right,
Speaker 1: everything that we kind of trusted, And I think the
Speaker 1: thing about the pandemic, and you tell me if you
Speaker 1: felt this way as well, is that we were living
Speaker 1: in this false sense of security, right that something's a
Speaker 1: catastrophic global event couldn't possibly ever happen. That's something that
Speaker 1: we see in sci fi. It's something that we read
Speaker 1: in books, or something that happened to Central Ago, right
Speaker 1: with the Spanish flu. So there's something that is very
Speaker 1: unsettling now about collective trauma, Like it's not just black trauma. Yes,
Speaker 1: our community experienced it differently and more so. But there's
Speaker 1: something about the collection of this trauma. How do you
Speaker 1: think that we use that community space to build right
Speaker 1: to move through? Like you're saying, this isn't a play,
Speaker 1: and it isn't a performance. This is all of our lives.
Speaker 1: But there is still a moving through that needs to
Speaker 1: happen from this collective struggle. How do you imagine that
Speaker 1: to come forth? Or does it? You know? I think
Speaker 1: there is something about everyone having to grapple with the thing,
Speaker 1: you know, whether we were talking about racism or police
Speaker 1: brutality or name and name and name, But there is
Speaker 1: something about like, Okay, this is in front of all
Speaker 1: of us and we all see it now, like what
Speaker 1: are we going to do about it? And I think
Speaker 1: there is something that has happened in this pandemic that
Speaker 1: has and I'm not going to say an equalized year,
Speaker 1: because I don't like it when people say that, but
Speaker 1: there is something that kind of like allowed us to
Speaker 1: name everything that we see on the table and agree
Speaker 1: that all of these things are on the table right
Speaker 1: so that now now we can work through together because
Speaker 1: we have a common you know, we we see the
Speaker 1: same thing, you know. Um so I and I think
Speaker 1: that that that is a step, you know. And I
Speaker 1: think now, because this is a collective problem, as you said,
Speaker 1: everyone has a stake, and I think now we're at
Speaker 1: the point we're trying to figure out, like, Okay, what's
Speaker 1: my role? What what role do I play? And you know,
Speaker 1: I worked at a place called Dreamyard, Um the dream
Speaker 1: Yard Project in the Bronx. Actually just had my last
Speaker 1: day a few weeks ago, but we do art and
Speaker 1: social justice education. And when I first got there, the
Speaker 1: first thing that we did as a learning community, as
Speaker 1: a full staff was talk about the civil rights movement
Speaker 1: and like how it worked. And one of the things
Speaker 1: that really jumped out at me was I had this
Speaker 1: narrative in my head that like all the black people
Speaker 1: came together and had like one agenda and then that
Speaker 1: one agenda was pushed through like with all the might,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, actually, there was a lot of discourse,
Speaker 1: Like there were a lot of different ways of going forward,
Speaker 1: which which is actually pretty obvious, Like there was a
Speaker 1: lot of disagreement, but everybody did there. Everyone had a
Speaker 1: common goal, even if they had different paths to getting there,
Speaker 1: and it actually took everybody. There is no Martin without Malcolm,
Speaker 1: you know, like, and so I am interested in how
Speaker 1: is everyone using their tactic toward this common goal to
Speaker 1: tackle this thing that we all see on the table.
Speaker 1: And I think we'll find our way there. That's just
Speaker 1: my theory. You know, I wonder too. You know, the
Speaker 1: ending right is about salvation, right, But everybody's idea of
Speaker 1: salvation doesn't look the same. So when so even when
Speaker 1: you know, I listen to you saying, well, we have
Speaker 1: this common goal, and I think that within the black community,
Speaker 1: the common goal is to get free, right, But everybody's
Speaker 1: idea of how we get free and what that freedom means, right,
Speaker 1: it's different, right, And so I wonder for you with
Speaker 1: this piece, what does salvation mean for you? The goal
Speaker 1: of this piece is for people to go on a
Speaker 1: personal journey in a collective space. Right. So I talk
Speaker 1: a lot about the choir. Why is choir a lot?
Speaker 1: And acquire your training to honor your individual voice and
Speaker 1: also make this beautiful thing for it with everybody else
Speaker 1: around you. And in the revival, we go through a
Speaker 1: series of songs that really are about like what have
Speaker 1: I gone through? How did I get here? What do
Speaker 1: I need to let go of? But the end goal
Speaker 1: is that you are able to see literally see how
Speaker 1: everyone else is moving through their stuff. And my hope
Speaker 1: also is that the takeaway from the revival is I
Speaker 1: can't get free unless you are free, and you can't
Speaker 1: get free unless I'm free. And so if our definitions whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever I think it means for me to be free,
Speaker 1: if it does not include you being free, that's not freedom, period.
Speaker 1: And so it's trying to get people to say, oh
Speaker 1: oh oh, like to move from a personal journey, right,
Speaker 1: which is necessary, like we have to do work on ourselves,
Speaker 1: but to move from what do I need to what
Speaker 1: do we need? And specifically like you might need more
Speaker 1: than I do, you might need something different, um, and
Speaker 1: so how can I honor what you need? And and
Speaker 1: think about what what can I do? And sometimes that
Speaker 1: means what can What do I need to give up? Right?
Speaker 1: What do I need to give up in order to
Speaker 1: make sure you have what you need? Do you know? So?
Speaker 1: I do I think that the Revival is going to
Speaker 1: like solve all the problems? No, it's not. Its purpose.
Speaker 1: The purpose is to to shift our our viewpoint, to
Speaker 1: shift how we are showing up, how we are continuing
Speaker 1: that you don't leave the same way that you came.
Speaker 1: That you're able to do even a little bit of
Speaker 1: work in that space with a bunch of other people
Speaker 1: that hopefully radiates and radiates and radiates and radiates out
Speaker 1: side of whatever happens in that twenty minutes. I love it,
Speaker 1: your service. The revival will take place on Juneteenth. Yes,
Speaker 1: so talk to us. I know the significance, but the
Speaker 1: significance for you, the significance for why this Juneteenth. And
Speaker 1: also I have another question, but I'll let you. I'll
Speaker 1: let you answer this one first. It's about Juneteenth twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and what we saw. What we saw? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so I have actually like Juneteenth has been one of
Speaker 1: those things that I it was like I kind of
Speaker 1: understood it, like growing up. It wasn't something that like
Speaker 1: my family like got together. Like when I think of Juneteenth,
Speaker 1: I think of Texas, like I specifically think of black
Speaker 1: people in Texas who really do the thing. But and
Speaker 1: I did not grow up with like that kind of
Speaker 1: history of Juneteenth. But especially last year when suddenly everybody
Speaker 1: wanted to celebrate Juneteenth, it was just like we've always
Speaker 1: done this, right, Oh yeah, Nike, you know everybody coming
Speaker 1: up with the okay oh, okay um, but I actually
Speaker 1: really focused, I really focused on it. I have a
Speaker 1: really wonderful friend. Her name is Ava Um. She is
Speaker 1: the director of education at BAM and also was like
Speaker 1: my work wife at dream Yard for a period of time,
Speaker 1: and she's joining me as a drama turk on this
Speaker 1: piece she gave. She gives this Juneteenth presentation that like
Speaker 1: literally shifted my everything because at the center of it,
Speaker 1: she questioned all of the narratives that I grew up
Speaker 1: with about Juneteenth about how it was about like, oh,
Speaker 1: we learned of our freedom late, like everybody learned at
Speaker 1: different times. It's like, no, actually, what Juneteenth is actually
Speaker 1: about is how my ancestors lived rated themselves, how they
Speaker 1: used you know, Lincoln's call to join the army to say, okay, great,
Speaker 1: I'm really gonna go and I'm really gonna take over
Speaker 1: Richmond and then I'm gonna go to the outskirts and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get my kids and my and my wife
Speaker 1: or like like and we and that history and lineage
Speaker 1: of like, oh, like our country like needed to free
Speaker 1: enslaved people because rebellions were real and like people were scared,
Speaker 1: like our ancestors weren't just sitting around waiting for people
Speaker 1: to free them, right, and books tell it that. His
Speaker 1: books tell it yes. And I'm sermonizing. I literally give
Speaker 1: a sermon in this piece, and this is what my
Speaker 1: sermon is about, about how our ancestors are actually our
Speaker 1: wildest dreams, Like if we've been looking for like in
Speaker 1: a like people that really showed up for themselves, that
Speaker 1: really figured out what collective liberation was, like what it
Speaker 1: meant to really free yourself, like our ancestors did that,
Speaker 1: and like we can also do that. We don't need
Speaker 1: to wait around for someone to hand us anything. You know,
Speaker 1: we have all of the agency, and I'm just giving
Speaker 1: away the whole people. No, I know, you're making everybody
Speaker 1: want to go show up, because that's what I'm sitting here,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying to myself. You know, I have that
Speaker 1: T shirt that says I am my ancestors wildest dreams,
Speaker 1: and now you just like totally flipped it on its head,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking to myself, Wow, you know when you
Speaker 1: think about the narrative that we have been given, that
Speaker 1: has been force fed to us about our lack right,
Speaker 1: and I think about a people who created their own liberation,
Speaker 1: their own rich rolls, their own everything, moving through bondage,
Speaker 1: physical bondage, but allowing them like being spiritually free. And
Speaker 1: that's the place that we're actually trying to get back to.
Speaker 1: Now you just you twisted, you twisted my mind. Well,
Speaker 1: I have to give credit where credit is due. A
Speaker 1: lot of the things that I don't create anything by myself.
Speaker 1: I like to really tell everybody that I try to
Speaker 1: run away from this whole like the singular genius artists
Speaker 1: like to me, that is ridiculous. And so that all
Speaker 1: came out of intense conversation with Eva, and she was like,
Speaker 1: this has been on my mind, you know, like how
Speaker 1: our ancestors are wildest dreams. I was like, say that again.
Speaker 1: I'm like, please pause, what did you just say? You know? Um,
Speaker 1: So every this whole piece has borne out of community
Speaker 1: around my conversations with people. That's why I was like,
Speaker 1: I need as many people involved in this as possible,
Speaker 1: Like I need, I need, I need a choir of people,
Speaker 1: Like everybody needs to bring their experience to this thing.
Speaker 1: It's not about even like it's not even about like
Speaker 1: just the shed presenting it. It's about like you know,
Speaker 1: who are all the many people that came together to
Speaker 1: make this thing happen, um, even though the shed is
Speaker 1: giving it a beautiful home. UM. So yes, I think
Speaker 1: collective liberation, our ability to free ourselves. Like that's that's
Speaker 1: where we're going, That's what we're touching on. I really,
Speaker 1: I mean I I you know, one, I'm excited about
Speaker 1: your performance kind and I am I'm totally going to
Speaker 1: combine in every single one of you amazing open call artists.
Speaker 1: I'm it's like I'm coming. I'm just gonna live at
Speaker 1: the shed, live at the shed and wait for everybody's
Speaker 1: from here. But there is just something you know, you
Speaker 1: can get caught. And I think from you know, for
Speaker 1: myself in particular, because of the nature of the work
Speaker 1: that is politics that has become so dark that I
Speaker 1: entered it as a very hopeful bride eyed, you know,
Speaker 1: wanting to believe that I could be this change maker
Speaker 1: to now being like I hate all of this and
Speaker 1: I don't want to go like end to my plans
Speaker 1: at like like just you know, listen to Gospel House.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think about you know, the beauty
Speaker 1: of art is to allow us to be able to
Speaker 1: experience our trauma, be able to see it but then
Speaker 1: also find joy and beauty in all of it. And
Speaker 1: so I appreciate you so much. I appreciate this body
Speaker 1: of work that you are bringing to people at a time.
Speaker 1: And I know that it was delayed, right, it was
Speaker 1: delayed because of the pandemic. Do you want to know
Speaker 1: the truth. Yeah, The truth is that this was not
Speaker 1: the original show that I pitched the Shed. I pitched
Speaker 1: a different show called Antioch Mass that it was about
Speaker 1: Peter and Jesus and their relationship and all the stuff,
Speaker 1: and it was delayed actually kind of twice. So the
Speaker 1: first time I was supposed to present in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: but they were like, actually, we've programmed too many. Do
Speaker 1: you want to go to twenty twenty eight? I was
Speaker 1: like sure, we all know what happened in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: And I was also supposed to have the commission in
Speaker 1: the theater, which is like this enclosed you know space,
Speaker 1: and the place where we're presenting is is huge Blaza.
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't do that intimate piece in there.
Speaker 1: And so this piece was born out of what has happened.
Speaker 1: And I'm grateful to the Shed for allowing me that
Speaker 1: flexibility because I was like, I can't, I can't do
Speaker 1: that piece right now. I have to do something else.
Speaker 1: And I also want to say Danielle that I hope
Speaker 1: your inner change maker, that that light that you started
Speaker 1: with it's still there. It is still there, obviously because
Speaker 1: you're still talking. I know exactly so. And it's like,
Speaker 1: we are the crazy. We're the crazy people that believe
Speaker 1: change is possible. And I think that that is everything.
Speaker 1: I think that's actually the thing. It is the thing,
Speaker 1: because you know, if you're not crazy enough or hopeful
Speaker 1: enough to believe that something can happen, then what then
Speaker 1: that you can affect something? Then why would you get
Speaker 1: out of bed? Right? I mean at least for at
Speaker 1: least for me, I need to get out of bed
Speaker 1: on purpose each and every day. And so, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel that you are a kindred spirit. So Troy,
Speaker 1: I could talk to you literally for the remainder of
Speaker 1: the day. Your peace is the revival. It is our duty.
Speaker 1: Tell people how they can follow you, how they can
Speaker 1: see the performance on June nineteenth. Yes, the best way
Speaker 1: to get information about the performance is to go to
Speaker 1: the Shed's website. Um, there's a beautiful Open Call section.
Speaker 1: You can read about all the open call artists that
Speaker 1: are being presented, and also about my piece, the Revival
Speaker 1: It Is Our Duty. It's all free, which I love.
Speaker 1: It's like very accessible, really love free love, We love
Speaker 1: free Love, free ninety nine Yes um. And to follow me,
Speaker 1: go to my Instagram at Try Anthony Music. I get
Speaker 1: yelled at a lot because I have a very minimal
Speaker 1: digital presence, but Instagram is the place that I feel
Speaker 1: comfortable and happy and you'll get the most of me there.
Speaker 1: You can stream Troy Anthony's live presentation of the revival
Speaker 1: It Is Our Duty the evening of June nineteenth at
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