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Hosts:
Busy Philipps & Sarah Jones
Honorees:
Padma Lakshmi
Shaina Taub
Patti Smith
NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) rocked New York City’s Town Hall on Monday evening with their 20th Annual Sing Out For Freedom profit live performance. The occasion was co-hosted by the hilarious Busy Philipps and Sarah Jones. The night featured performances and appearances by singer/songwriter Desmond Child (Bon Jovi, Katy Perry, Aerosmith), Academy Award nominee Siedah Garrett (Michael Jackson, Dreamgirls), and a particular efficiency by Rock N’ Roll Hall of Famer, National Book Award-winning creator, poet, and music icon Patti Smith, who was additionally one of many evenings honorees.
Tom Hanks made a shock look to current an award to honoree, Padma Lakshmi (Taste the Nation, Top Chef, and Tomatoes for Neela), Emmy-nominated meals skilled, tv host, government producer and The New York Times best-selling creator; The 20th Anniversary occasion additionally honored singer, composer, and musician Shaina Taub; and music icon Patti Smith.
The profit live performance was established to shine a lightweight on social injustices and civil rights points via an unforgettable, curated evening, that includes music, spoken phrase, and different performing arts. Other performers and presenters of the night included comic Alex Edelman (Just For Us), 2022 Tony-Nominee Shoshana Bean, comic Roy Wood Jr. (The Daily Show with Trevor Noah), Tony-nominated actor Ato Blankson-Wood (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Slave Play), performer and founding father of Broadway For Racial Justice Brandon Michael Nase, Kayla Davion (TINA: The Tina Turner Musical), singer and co-founder of the Sing Out For Freedom live performance Liana Stampur, actor/author/advocate Maybe Burke, actor Tomás Matos (Fire Island), and America’s Got Talent choir sensation Sing Harlem.
The night additionally featured particular performances from the forged of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony successful Broadway Musical, A Strange Loop, Roundabout Theatre Company’s present Broadway revival of 1776, and the forged of Broadway’s Moulin Rouge.
This 12 months’s present mirrored on the previous 20 years of historic wins for the ACLU and NYCLU and strategized for the street forward.
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Sing Out For Freedom, was co-founded by Liana Stampur and Erich Bergen together with NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman. Proceeds from the live performance will profit the work of the NYCLU and the ACLU to advertise and defend civil rights and liberties in New York and throughout the nation. For extra info, go to www.singoutforfreedom.com.
The twentieth Annual Sing Out for Freedom profit live performance was produced by Erich Bergen, Michael J. Moritz Jr. and Ari Conte, with Direction by Erich Bergen.
About the New York Civil Liberties Union and Sing Out For Freedom
The New York Civil Liberties Union is without doubt one of the nation’s foremost defenders of civil liberties and civil rights. Founded in 1951 because the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, the NYCLU is a not-for-profit, non-partisan group with 9 places of work, together with seven regional places of work and 155,000 members throughout the state. We work to make sure that the core values and ideas of equality, liberty and due course of are extra absolutely and constantly realized within the lives of all New Yorkers. In pursuit of those ideas we battle for the dignity of all folks, with explicit consideration to the pervasive and persistent harms of racism.
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