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daintyduck99 · 2 years

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I was talking to @innytoes about a Stranger Things/Julie and the Phantoms Crossover AU, and this is what we came up with:

Reggie disappears after band practice one Friday night. No one notices until he doesn't come to school on Monday, although his friends are a little worried that they haven't seen him since, and he hasn't called. They're hesitant to call the Peters residence, but they finally swing by, only for his mom to tell them he never came home.

Reggie staying away from his parents' house isn't uncommon. Normally, he'd stay with one of his friends, though. He would never just up and leave like that. Julie, Luke, Alex, and Bobby are all worried about him. Ray calls the police, but they haven't heard anything.

Alex and Luke find Willie hunkered behind the diner where Luke works the weekend Reggie disappeared (although they don't know it yet), seemingly starved and mute and having escaped from some sort of hospital where he was horribly treated and forced to shave his head (he doesn't have cancer, as he shakes his head no when Luke tactfully blurts the question). Willie isn't even his name, but he has what looks like two L's tattooed on his wrist, or maybe an 11, but Luke's already started calling him Willie, and he doesn't seem to mind, so Alex lets it go with a weary "okay."

They usher him into the back and get him some food, but they aren't there for long before some lady who's way too overdressed arrives and gives Alex bad vibes (which Luke quickly realizes are real because she has a GUN so they bolt and make a split second decision to hide Willie in the studio).

Caleb is still the Big Bad Evil Guy and he's trying to get Willie back, only here he's a cruel scientist who makes Willie call him Papa, which is probably creepier than it already sounds. He's in charge of the lab at the edge of town. He keeps sending agents after Willie.

Alex and Willie have a grand feast of Hot Dogs and Eggos in the loft since he didn't really have time to eat at the diner, having introduced her to Julie, to whom Luke is currently explaining the situation. Cue Willie nick-naming Alex Hot Dog. Alex decides to call him Eggo in retaliation (is this flirting? he's pretty sure this is flirting).

The police start searching the woods and all around town for Reggie, but hey, it's Hawkins. Either he'll turn up, or he ditched town, it happens all the time. The worst thing that ever happened in Hawkins was when old Ernie Miller, senile and delirious, stumbled into the lake and drowned, and that was decades ago. The 90's are a fairly peaceful time, especially in this sleepy little town.

However, as days go by and he doesn't turn up and government bigwigs get involved, the police become more grim. Either the kid was mixed up in something bad, or he's dead.

Bobby's convinced that Reggie's dead, and he can't handle the grief, or the way that the rest of their friends insist that he's still alive. He calls his grandma and boards a plane for LA as soon as they announce that they've found a body in the quarry. He and Luke get into a horrible argument, and they aren't speaking when Bobby goes.

However, he still answers their questions when they call him needing his expertise. It helps if it's Alex and he tells Bobby that he needs to know how to build a sensory deprivation tank so he can medicate, okay, it's not a sex thing, would would you even ask that Bobby.

Reggie's parents are quick to identify the body, but Luke can't let it go. He wrestles his way into the morgue--his mom is a cop, she's connected to the case, it's fine--and his heart falls out of his body. Something fishy is going on, because that's not his best friend. His best friend has a freckle right above his lip that he definitely doesn't think about too much, and they got the pattern of the freckles on his cheeks wrong. His eyebrows are neater than that. His nose has a little divot in the bridge from where he used to wear glasses as a kid.

That's not Reggie. He lies to his mom, though, that seeing the body gave him peace of mind. He rushes to tell their friends--sans Bobby, which also hurts to think about--but the others believe him. Something feels off to them, too. Plus, they found Willie. Who's to say that Reggie's not stuck at whatever hospital he came from? Alex won't let Luke push Willie into talking, though.

Meanwhile, Reggie’s having a horrible time. All he'd wanted to do was feed the stray dog that's been turning up by the shed out behind his parent's house. Then another dog turned up, all feral and snarling and probably riddled with rabies, only the other dog somehow hurtled him into this hellish dimension and it probably wasn't a dog at all, unless it was a hellhound.

Thankfully, Reggie's good at hiding, at not making a sound and at making himself small, and this dimension looks a lot like his town, only without the people, and it's crawling with a bunch of creepy vines and spores and monsters. He makes it back to the Molina's studio and usually hides in the loft. Either the monster doesn't like the loud music that always echoes in there, presumably from the other side, or it's too lazy to climb ladders. He's not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, as his Nana would say.

He really, really misses his friends, though. He plays the piano sometimes, when they play, assuming they won't notice or hear it--he's surprised it even makes noise on this side--but he scares them, and they--assume he's a ghost? Rude. Carlos reassures them that Reggie's not a ghost, bless the little dude. Then letters appear on the piano, taped and written in Julie's elegant hand. It's the alphabet. He's able to send short messages to them after that, unless he's hiding.

Luke and Julie manage to find a mini portal into what Reggie has dubbed The Upside Down, and Julie, who's small enough to fit, crawls inside before Luke can suggest trying to enlarge it, because he really doesn't like the idea of her going alone. Oops?

Reggie sees her, and nearly runs to her, but then he sees the hellhound, and he's not about to endanger Julie when he's been surviving this shit for days, and he hears Luke calling for her on the other side. She'll be okay if he can distract the monster. He does so from the shadows, making just enough noise to let her get away before he has to barricade himself in the nearest building for a while.

Also, Ray finds out about Willie after a single day, if that. He's an agent of chaos with mind powers and a new love for waffles, and Ray knows that his kids did not eat two boxes of Eggos overnight. They end up having to tell Ray everything, and he's not about to let any of his kids get shot or eaten by hellhounds, Willie included. He considers telling Emily, but he knows that she and Luke have been butting heads, and ultimately decides not to, although it would be nice to have a police officer in the loop.

They try to keep it from Victoria, but she comes over in the middle of a monster attack and calmly deters the hellhound with a homemade flamethrower, which is how they discover that the monster is afraid of fire (and that they might have to change the name Reggie, what kind of hellhound is scared of fire? he pouts via minor chords).

She promptly freaks out after, but she keeps a cool head when it counts. She's able to keep a close eye on all of the kids during the day since she's the high school nurse. She starts carrying a lighter in her purse (the hairspray was already in there).

Eventually, Willie tells the others about the lab. He realizes that he created the gate during the incredibly stressful moment when he was escaping thanks to a look into Caleb's head, and with the ability boosting nature of the tank and encouragement from Alex, he manages to locate Reggie in the Upside Down (he's been forced to move more slowly and cautiously since Julie got away).

Victoria and Ray attempt to break into the lab before the kids can try it, but they get caught. They make a deal with Caleb: they'll tell him where Willie is if he lets them enter the gate and attempt to rescue Reggie. They lie with a kernel of truth, and they manage to get in and save Reggie (who's still where Willie had said he would be).

Meanwhile, Luke, Julie, Alex, and Willie have set a trap for the monster, and they fight it, wounding it with the trap. Willie disintegrates the monster (and the agents that managed to figure out the deception, so--he disintegrates all of the monsters besides Caleb, for now).

Everyone's reunited with Reggie, and he's introduced to Willie, but he can't help but be a little bummed, because Luke and Julie have always been a power couple, and Bobby--left? And now Alex has a cool boyfriend with superpowers, and he's still alone. Luke and Julie have to spell out that they're in love with him too (he could have died! he has to know!), and Julie also pieces together that he saved her.

Then everyone goes out to LA to show Bobby that Reggie's still alive and to tell him the whole story. He reconciles with Luke (and nearly smothers Reggie and maybe cries but no one talks about that). Ray considers moving them all out there to get away from Caleb, as much as he's going to miss the house where they made all of their memories as a family with Rose.

He has a new family to look out for.

#another great contribution from Inny: the emotional payoff of Willie getting to grow his hair long #stranger things au #peterpatterlina #willex #i forgot how complicated ST gets until i was wracking my brain trying to remember how it ended lol

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newagesispage · 3 years

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OCTOBER 2021

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randomestfandoms-ocs · 5 years

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For the send you a song ask, the entirety of Lover (each song for an OC) 💗 -lorettastwilight

Send me a song and I’ll tell you which OC(s) it fits bestOkay so the entire album gives me super (future) Amy vibes but I’ll try to list others too lmao

1. I Forgot That You Existed

Amethyst Adams in (If Not For The Lure Of) Darker Water - Okay so like I DMed you last night, this is the perfect song for this AU! After the fight with Jughead, Amy joins the Ghoulies and doesn’t see him again until the first day of school, she walks in hot and happy and absolutely killing it and realizes that she hasn’t thought about him in months! - I forgot that you existed/And I thought that it would kill me, but it didn’t/And it was so nice/So peaceful and quiet/I forgot that you existed/It isn’t love, it isn’t hate, it’s just indifference

Bella Baxter to Reggie Mantle about the playbook and people finding out that she’s a Serpent - I forgot that you/Got out some popcorn/As soon as my rep started going down, down, down/Laughed on the school yard/As soon as I tripped up and hit the ground

2. Cruel Summer

The Romeo and Juliet references definitely give me major Aaliya x Jason vibes!!! Especially thinking about the literal gate around Thornhill, with Aaliya sneaking in to spend the night with Jason - And I snuck in through the garden gate/Every night that summer just to seal my fate/And I scream, “For whatever it’s worth/I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?”

3. Lover

While I’ve already made edits for Amy x Sweet Pea and Arianne x Scott (and it is a perfect song for both ships) I think it’s actually most perfect for Selena x Derek!!! - Can I go where you go?/Can we always be this close forever and ever? & My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue/All’s well that ends well to end up with you/Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover

That being said, it’s still absolutely perfect for SweetA and is the song that Amy walks down the aisle to for their second wedding

4. The Man

Amethyst Adams (and Fallon Parris Jones and Astoria Topaz) about being the Serpent King - I’d be a fearless leader/I’d be an alpha type & I’m so sick of running as fast as I can/Wondering if I’d get there quicker if I was a man & They’d paint me out to be bad/So, it’s okay that I’m mad

5. The Archer

Also definitely Amy and Arianne, but Summer Sol!!! - Who could ever leave me, darling/But who could stay? & I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost/The room is on fire, invisible smoke/And all of my heroes die all alone/Help me hold on to you

6. I Think He Knows

Summer Simmons x Archie - Lyrical smile, indigo eyes, hand on my thigh/We can follow the sparks, I’ll drive/“So where we gonna go?”/I whisper in the dark/“Where we gonna go?”/I think he knows

7. Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince

Answered here - it’s pretty long so I won’t copy it all

8. Paper Rings

Arianne x Scott holy shit holy shit holy shit - I like shiny things, but I’d marry you with paper rings/Darling, you’re the one I want, and/I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this

Amy x Sweet Pea, another song from their wedding soundtrack - I’m with you even if it makes me blue & Honey, without all the exes, fights, and flaws/We wouldn’t be standing here so tall & Kiss me once cause you know I had a long night/Kiss me twice ‘cause it’s gonna be alright/Three times ‘cause I waited my whole life & In paper rings, in picture frames, in dirty dreams/you’re the one I want

9. Cornelia Street

Selena x Derek! - And I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends/I’d never walk Cornelia Street again/That’s the kind of heartbreak time could never mend/I’d never walk Cornelia Street again

10. Death By A Thousand Cuts

Fallon x Sweet Pea 100% - Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts/Flashbacks waking me up/I get drunk, but it’s not enough/Cause the morning comes and you’re not my baby/I look through the windows of this love/Even though we boarded them up/Chandelier’s still flickering here/Cause I can’t pretend it’s okay when it’s not

Pandora x Steve Rogers in First Avenger - you said it was a great love/One for the ages/But if the story’s over/Why am I still writing pages?

11. London Boy

Alissara Baratheon x Oberyn Martell - But something happened, I heard him laughing/I saw the dimples first and then I heard the accent/They say home is where the heart is/But that’s not where mine lives

12. Soon You’ll Get Better

Given the whole story behind this song, i feel very weird assigning it to a character. Stella Beauregard and Brinkley Brant each lose a parent to cancer but that’s as far as I’m willing to go with it at the moment

13. False God

Rosebud x FP - We might just get away with it/The altar is my hips/Even if it’s a false god/We’d still worship this love

14. You Need To Calm Down

Rosalind Flores during the List - And we see you over there on the Internet/Comparing all the girls who are killing it/But we figured you out/We all know now/We all got crowns/You need to calm down

15. Afterglow

Amethyst x Sweet Pea - I blew things out of proportion, now you’re blue/Put you in jail for something you didn’t do/I pinned your hands behind your back, oh/Thought I had reason to attack & Hey, it’s all me, in my head/I’m the one who burned us down/But it’s not what I meant/Sorry that I hurt you

16. Me!

Also Amethyst and Sweet Pea tbh - I know that I’m a handful baby, uh/I know I never think before I jump/And you’re the kind of guy the ladies want

17. It’s Nice To Have A Friend

Nikki x Peter - School bell rings, walk me home/Sidewalk chalk covered in snow/Lost my gloves, you give me one/“Wanna hang out?” Yeah, sounds like fun/Video games, you pass me a note/Sleeping in tents

18. Daylight

In a perfect bookend with I Forgot That You Existed, this is future Amy and future SweetA af. Honestly this is exactly where I plan on ending Wayward Daughter for her arc, learning to leave the past in the past and finally look into the future and at the bright life that awaits - Luck of the draw only draws the unlucky/And so I became the butt of the joke/I wounded the good and I trusted the wicked/Clearing the air, I breathed in the smoke & Maybe I’ve stormed out of every single room in this town/Threw out our cloaks and our daggers because it’s morning now & You gotta step into the daylight and let it go & I wanna be defined by the things that I love/Not the things I hate/Not the things I’m afraid of/Or the things that haunt me in the middle of the night

Send me a song and I’ll tell you which OC(s) it fits best

#ask #answered #lorettastwilight

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ao3feed-jatp · 2 years

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You've Got A Fast Car

by MoonRiver

Carlos never thought life would look like this: losing his mother to cancer, dropping out of college, quitting baseball, moving back home. He definitely never expected to fall in love with Reggie Peters' brother.

Stevie Peters never thought his life would like this: being raised by his brother, his father in prison, his mother just gone. He never thought he'd go to college- or that every day of college would be a struggle as he battled panic disorder and helped his brother through PTSD. He never thought he'd fall in love.

After the semester from hell, Carlos and Stevie were both ready to get out of Los Angeles, but what starts out as their dream road trip leads to them both confronting their past.

Words: 3127, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Relationships: Carlos Molina/Stevie Peters

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Road Trips, Found Family, Driving across america, Reggie Peters Has Bad Parents (Julie and The Phantoms), Reggie Peters Has a Sibling (Julie and The Phantoms), Panic Attacks, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Good Parent Ray Molina, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Grief/Mourning, Siblings, Family, Travel, Angst, Angst and Feels

from AO3 works tagged 'Julie and The Phantoms (TV 2020)' https://ift.tt/Rx8tf7W

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #julie and the phantoms #jatp

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Indie 5-0: 5 Questions with Reggie Harris

A teaching artist in the Kennedy Center’s CETA program (Changing Education Through the Arts) and a fellow for the prestigious Council of Independent College lecture program, Reggie Harris also serves as Co-President and Director of Music Education for the Living Legacy Project—an advocacy group that sponsors Civil Rights pilgrimages throughout the South and online education seminars worldwide. His new album On Solid Ground is about all healing and inspiration in the face of injustice and dissension. From love songs (“Come What May”) to protest songs (“Standing in Freedom's Name”) to the album-closing tribute (“High Over the Hudson”) to his friend and mentor Pete Seeger, On Solid Ground has a little bit of something for everyone. Harris is the 2021 recipient of Folk Alliance International's Spirit of Folk Award and is a DJ on the new program Prisms: The Sound Of Color on SiriusXM’s The Village. He was recently featured on CNN’s Silence is Not An Option with Don Lemon and in The New York Times.

Listen to Reggie Harris via Spotify:

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1. At what age did you realize that music was the career you wanted to pursue? What was your ‘ah-ha’ moment? Wow. It came late. I mean, I’ve been singing since I was three or four years old, but I never really had any reason to think of music as a possible career. No one in my family or for that matter, in my social circle, did anything of the sort. People asked that question “What do you wanna be?” all the time but I saw music as just something you did in church or at school or in family sings around the piano. I always loved music and I was always good at it. I learned to harmonize really early and I sang all through high school but never gave any thought to it as a profession. I thought I’d be a teacher. But the “aha moment” came when I heard James Taylors' "Fire and Rain" on the radio one night in 12th grade. Something about his guitar and his expressive voice lit a fire that burned inside until I got a guitar in my hands in 1974. That happened when a young woman I was dating dared me to learn 3 chord on the guitar. That event unleashed something inside of me that had gone untapped in all my years of singing in choirs and groups and at school. I now had the ability to accompany myself with music that I heard from within. I bought the album Sweet Baby James and played the grooves out. That opened the door to Gordon Lightfoot, Don McClean, Cat Stevens, Kenny Rankin and the singer songwriters. I started watching shows like The Midnight Special or Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert and I started going to concerts. And around that same time, I met another young woman named Kim who played guitar and loved the same artists I did. She and I started meeting up and practicing songs, then we began writing songs and quickly became singing partners. Eventually we got married and I’d say, we pushed each other out the door and onto the stage. We were both passionate about making music and helped each other learn and grow and we were both willing to struggle to make it work. We did that for forty years and then separated and I became a solo act in 2016. I love the way it feels to spend hours making music and I really love how it makes other people feel when they hear it. It also gives me a voice to express what I see in the world. My passion for creating music and connecting the dots is stronger than ever. 2. Who are your musical inspirations? What artists inspired you to start your career and find your musical passion? My musical inspiration started early and there have been so many streams. Hearing the “old folks” in my church sing spirituals and hymns was formative and Sunday afternoon church events where 6 or 7 or more church choirs would travel around and have a gospel song fest at another church was exciting and grounding. All those amazing singers covering those great songs. I remember hearing Harry Belafonte, Mahalia Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Sam Cooke and others on my mother's radio in the morning as she got ready for work. Their voices just made you feel emotions like nothing else in the world. Our teachers in elementary taught us the songs of Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan and we sang “Blowing in the Wind” (The Peter, Paul, and Mary version) and "If I Had A Hammer" for 6th grade graduation. I remember standing on the steps of my house in Philly with three of my friends, in the summer of 1964, singing “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” at the top of our lungs. We all took different roles as The Beatles. I thought I was Paul of course! That strikes me funny now… four little black boys in inner-city Philadelphia thinking they were English rockers? Why not The Temps? Or Smokey and the Miracles? There was also Aretha Franklin and The Stones in 1965 with "Satisfaction." Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder fascinated me and all those great Motown artist’s voices came floating down the hall to my room as my sister came of age. I paid attention to the musicians and the arrangements too. Years later, after I discovered the guitar, I met Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton and Ritchie Havens and other folk musicians and started to find a groove that combined what they were doing with other music I loved. My inspiration stream crosses genres, race, decade and style. Stevie Wonder to Pete Seeger, to Bach to Dolly Parton to Joan Armatrading to the Yellow Jackets to Beyonce. Listening across genres gives me more information to process which I can incorporate in melodies, harmonies or language for lyrics. 3. What inspired you to write & record On Solid Ground? I got home on March 8, 2020 after my tour was abruptly ended by COVID-19 shutdowns. For 3 weeks, I sat watching the news, talking with friends, feeling the world come apart as concert dates disappeared from my calendar for months and months into the future. Since concerts, lectures and school programs are the major ways that I get to sow seeds of hope in the world, I felt at a great loss. Like everyone else, I saw tensions building and protests against the various issues of hate and division exploding in the streets and felt that I needed to make sense of it all.

Music is the place I go when I need the world to make sense. So I started doing online concerts and that helped me to see how hungry people were for music and connection. My answer to the desperation and fear that I saw rising all around was to write the song "On Solid Ground." It’s written in the style and frame of the spirituals which are songs I grew up singing and that I still sing now. They are songs composed by people who endured slavery…people who were suffering through devastatingly tough times and still found ways to persevere through music and community. So my message? We can get through this time of challenge and change if we pull together and face ourselves.

Then the floodgates opened. I watched people flood into the streets to protest the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor killings and the growing acts of election suppression and wrote “Standing in Freedom’s Name” and “Let’s Meet Up Early.” I also arranged Malvina Reynolds' “It Isn’t Nice" as a tribute. Inspired by articles about workers who were being put in danger by callous factory owners and government officials, I wrote “My Working Bones.”

In the isolation of missing my girlfriend, who lives 10 hours away, I wrote “Come What May.” Then, watching street scenes on TV in 2020 that mirrored C.T. Vivian’s classic stand-off with Sheriff Jim Clark in Selma in 1965, I was inspired to write “It’s Who We Are.” It’s my challenge to the avoidance of questions of race, inequality and disenfranchisement that we as a nation are still struggling to face. But the protests showed a possible willingness to change?

I wrote the song "High Over the Hudson" about Pete Seeger in 2014 but never put it on a CD. And "Maybe It’s Love" was a fun writing exercise about the nature of romance. Song after song was born as a timely reflection on what was on my mind every day and as I would finish one song, another would rise up.

Soon I had 9 originals and 4 songs that I was inspired to arrange as covers and I thought, ”Looks like a CD to me.” 4. What was the process like bringing the album to life, and who did you work with to create it?

Recording this CD was both supremely challenging, deeply therapeutic and also the most relaxed I’ve ever been in the studio. The project gave me an outlet for stress. We had to be very careful about COVID-19 protocols and close proximity at all times. Travel was weird and in a few impossible moments, we worked remotely. I was also wondering if I’d ever get to go out and perform the songs once they were done or if anyone would ever buy physical music again since that has been decreasing for years. But as I called on musicians who were not only good friends but who I knew would respond to my vision, the way to proceed got clearer. My core co-contributors, Greg Greenway and Dave Schonauer, have been critical collaborators on my last three CDs. Greg and I have known each other for over 30 years and were born three days apart. So we have a language that just flows. We met and did pre-production in August and then hit the studio in September. Dave, the engineer at Morningstar Studios, is just brilliant. He makes things possible that most people don’t think of. Pat Wictor is my improvisational exploration brother as is Tom Prasado-Rao. Pat got up from a bout with COVID-19 and a recovery from tearing a tendon in his arm and played his newly retrained fingers off. Tom came out of a major bout with cancer and simmered with vocal ideas. They were all amazing at helping me chase my vision and “letting me be me" while adding brilliance and calling me on things didn’t quite measure up. We work at a level of trust that transcends words. I met bassist Chico Huff and drummer Matt Scarano when I recorded the CD Ready to Go in 2017-18 and they both play my music like they were there when I wrote it! Eric Byrd is a friend who is an amazing musical force and funny as hell. And Colleen Kattau, Mark Murphy and Ken Ulansey are longtime friends who just find the right temperature and vibe all the time. Everyone did what I love: They came in the door with passion and flexibility, brought their “A” games and didn’t leave until we got it right. And now Kari Estrin, Sarah Bennett and my friend Joann Murdock are helping me get it out to the world. 5. What do you have in store for the rest of 2021? I’m looking forward to continuing to unveil these songs, first during online concerts and then, as things begin to open up, with the start of whatever the new in-person performing landscape will become. I’ll continue to provide education videos for schools and doing lectures and residency work with colleges and universities on my own and through the Council of independent Colleges. The pandemic also gave me the time to work on a memoir which I’m trying to finish with a friend who is co-writing. And I’ll continue my work in civil, voting and human rights with the Living Legacy Project organization as we work to extend awareness and social activism. In my spare time, I hope to go to a few baseball games, see fully vaccinated friends for visits and hugs, watch a few movies and hopefully see my 76ers win the NBA championship. And I think I also need to get some rest.

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