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When The Dove Enters In

from Remember Me To Harlem by Lara Downes

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As a Black student at Northwestern University in the 1920’s, Margaret Bonds felt like an outsider for all the obvious reasons. As she tells it, when she found the poetry of Langston Hughes, it changed her life: “I was in this prejudiced university, this terribly prejudiced place…. I was looking in the basement of the Evanston Public Library where they had the poetry. I came in contact with this wonderful poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” and I’m sure it helped my feelings of security. Because in that poem he tells how great the black man is. And if I had any misgivings, which I would have to have – here you are in a setup where the restaurants won’t serve you and you’re going to college, you’re sacrificing, trying to get through school – and I know that poem helped save me.” Ten years later, Bonds and Hughes became friends and he convinced her to move to Harlem, where the Renaissance was in full swing. They collaborated constantly - her music revealing new harmonies and rhythms in his poems. When The Dove Enters In is a song about human connection -- about redemption and salvation, about being stronger together.

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from Remember Me To Harlem, released February 5, 2021
Margaret Bonds
Davóne Tines

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Lara Downes has been called “an explorer whose imagination is fired by bringing notice to the underrepresented and forgotten”. Her musical roadmap seeks inspiration from the legacies of history, family, and collective memory, excavating the broad landscape of American music to create acclaimed recordings that serve as gathering spaces for her listeners to find common ground and shared experience. ... more

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