Funky journey in African American Oral, Literary, Musical, & Theatrical Tradition.

Onstage. Live. Audience. With The Aural Tradition (Aural = of the ear), we’re bridging the old & the new to create something all our own.  The words of Dubois and the riffs of The Last Poets can hang out in the same room.  Even if we invite a bit of hip hop theatre and Neo-Soul Funk wailin’.  We’re going to put Anna Julia Cooper, Stevie Wonder, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Biz Markie and some local community goodness in one jug for a good shake. And for us, the listening is perhaps more important than the telling.

Does that sound risky? We think it’s just right. You will too.