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NEWS, MEDIA & UPDATES
Welcome to our news section, where you can learn more about the latest things going on at HGMA and see us in the press!
Please send all media inquiries to Priscila Perez pperez@hamiltongarrett.org
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LIVE WITH JIM & MARGERY
LA HORA DEL CAFÉ
THE BAY STATE BANNER
GBH NEWS
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The HG Drumline is filling the streets of Boston with music that is not so common in the northern part of the country. Read, listen and watch how this ensemble of youth in Roxbury are preserving and celebrating marching style drumming within Black musical traditions.
GBH BOSTON PUBLIC RADIO
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Leave it to HGCMA to bring a drumline to a library! Watch and listen as Gerami Groover-Flores and Dr. Price, Dean of Berklee's Center for Africana Studies, and Khristian Dentley from Take 6 have a chat with Jim and Margery on our upcoming Make Them Hear You fundraising concert. Plus, there's a live performance of our HG Drumline at the Boston Public Radio.
THE BOSTON GLOBE
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Check us out on WCVB 5 Chronicle to hear straight from our students! It is going to be a year since United Parish in Brookline chose our organization to be the recipient of their Negro Spiritual Royalty Project. So much has been accomplished since then to continue the preservation of Black music.
WPKZ FM LIVE
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This year we are honoring Patrice Rushen with our 2023 Make Them Hear You award at this year's fundraising concert! Khristian Dentley from Take 6 and Gerami Groover-Flores from HGCMA talk about their admiration of Patrice Rushen and the impact she has has on Black music, as well as what music means to both of their lives.
THE BAY STATE BANNER
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Our Executive Director Gerami Groover-Flores, Patrice Rushen and Alvin Chea from Take 6 talk about the excitement building up as we near our 2023 Make Them Hear You fundraising concert! Read to learn more about how HGCMA is expanding to continue the work of providing opportunities to youth in the community to learn Black music and succeed in their musical journeys. Listen to their discussion with host Sherman Whitman!
BOSTON WCBV 5 CHRONICLE
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Check us out on WCVB 5 Chronicle to hear straight from our students! It is going to be a year since United Parish in Brookline chose our organization to be the recipient of their Negro Spiritual Royalty Project. So much has been accomplished since then to continue the preservation of Black music.
THE BOSTON GLOBE
BLACK NEWS HOUR
Tiana Woodard and Greg Lee from The Boston Globe's Black News Hour sat down with Gerami to talk about the importance of preserving Black music and how Hamilton-Garrett has been doing so in the Grove Hall community for the past 20 years.
THE BAY STATE BANNER
As the HG Academy celebrates its 20th anniversary and the 100 birth anniversary of its co-founder Ruth Hamilton, our Executive Director Gerami Groover-Flores sat down to talk about HG's history in the Roxbury community.
NEGRO SPIRITUAL ROYALTIES PROJECT
Hamilton-Garrett is excited to be the first recipient of the Negro Spirituals Royalty Project in partnership with United Parish in Brookline. Read below for articles on this journey.
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Learn about what our students have to say about their experience at HGMA and their performances!
JISLEY ARIAS
STUDENT CONCERT
HGMA NEWSLETTERS
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