Follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor. The play focuses on the arguments between a brother and a sister who have different ideas on what to do with the piano. The brother, Boy Willie, is a sharecropper who wants to sell the piano to buy the land (Sutter's land) where his ancestors toiled as slaves. The sister, Berniece, remains emphatic about keeping the piano, which shows the carved faces of their great-grandfather's wife and son during the days of their enslavement.
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Fela Kuti: writer, performer
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Song in My Soul |
Mary Lou Williams: writer, performer
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Closer |
Mike James Kirkland: writer, performer
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Scary Times |
Dean Josiah: writer
SAULT: performer
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Obe |
Nigeria 70: performer
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Welcome to the Party |
Nick Kirksey: writer
Har-You Percussion Group: performer
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Gumbo Head |
Erykah Badu: writer, performer
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Closer |
Mink: performer
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Wither |
Frank Ocean: writer, performer
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Let Us Pray |
Charles Holland: writer
Hymes Hollis: writer
Leonard B. Lothlen: writer
Gospel Clouds: performer
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Don't You Make Me High |
J. Mayo Williams: writer
Erykah Badu: performer
Danny Barker: writer
Blue Lu Barker: writer
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Wild Women Don't Have the Blues |
Ida Cox: writer
Erykah Badu: performer
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Washington Post 2 |
John Philip Sousa: writer
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Oh'berta |
Alan Lomax: writer
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Old Dollar Mamie |
Alan Lomax: writer
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Rosie |
John A. Lomax: writer
Alan Lomax: writer
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Hesitating Blues |
W.C. Handy: writer
Diane Louie: messages.music arranger
Matthew Head: messages.music arranger
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The Tempest |
Diane Louie: writer
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