jared marshall

Let us tell y’all something! We felt the loooove at @blackzinefair this past weekend! We greeted and waved to the people, we shared our stories and works, and talked and connected with beautiful folk. We met friends old and new, met a record number of southern/DMV/757 folk (?!?!) — aaaand we had the pleasure of sitting in between the benevolent @thefreeblackwomenslibrary and @vicegrip.archives ! 🖤 Much gratitude to @blackzinefair , the amazing BZF volunteers and @sojourners4justice for having us again this year! We are so grateful to be able to storytell and be inspired by this community. BZF 2026 is one for the booooks! 🩶

is sharing some upcoming (and a couple recent) events to keep folks in the loop! more to share in due time. much love! slide 3: personal sketch of a composition for a @southernproletariatmusic.co collection🪴 slide 4: a recent and sangin’ moment with @harlemgospelensemble slide 8: a throwback snippet of me soloing the 2nd movement of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with @cantatesings + @capitalcitysymphony ! hoping to continue being a healing vessel thru song and critical thought and action in these unjust times. slide 9: continue getting into your local archives and libraries! fun lil’ side quest projects at NY Phil archives 👨🏾‍🔬 📷: my dear guy @wjsandel (slide 1)

OOOOH we’re heading on up to Brooklyn! Come visit and hang out with us this Saturday at the @blackzinefair from 11am to 6pm! We can’t wait to share more of our work and get to know you beautiful people! 🫶🏽 RSVP and check out more info via blackzinefair.org!

YEEEEEEEP! Southern Proletariat Music Company is making their way to @miamizinefair this Saturday! It’s gonna be a beautiful day to come be in community with all the Miami folk! We come bearing our love-labored experiences from the lands of the DMV and the 757 and connect them to our everyday musical lives. Our 1/2 Jared will be sending his love from NYC this weekend, but we can’t wait to share the projects we have been working on. Let’s get down to meeting and getting to know our fellow exhibitors! See you there! 🫶🏽 Check out more MZF info in their bio! 🔗

Greetings again, dear people! We continue to wish y’all a fruitful new year and much celebration for 100 years of Black History Month! It’s been a month since the broadcast of our second @nts_radio episode: Peace Like a River w/ SPMC! We got a chance to listen along and reflect while we took some time away in the mountains of Western Maryland during the New Year’s holiday. For this episode, we wanted to bring works together that can guide us back to having peace in the most unjust and oppressive of times. There is struggle and fight to find again the moments that many can fully say "it is well with our souls." From gospel legend Marion Williams and songful elders Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Linda Perhacs, to Kelela and Joy Guidry, to Leontyne Price and the jazz-practitioner greats, we hope that this 1-hour enthusiast mix will provide even a fraction of peace for our everyday journeys. [NTS Description] Take it from two water signs: If water and soil hold memory, then peace can be found in the riverbed. Southern Proletariat Music Company offers an hourlong mix of peace-on-earth renderings in the fruitful music of our upbringings and influences from the general Afro-American perspective. Consider this ruminating mix as a sonic earthenware for those seeking an inner sanctum for spiritual regeneration with a dash of hope for today, tomorrow and thereafter. Link to our 'Peace Like a River' episode in our bio! Big love and gratitude to NTS Supporter Radio and the people for tuning in! More sharing and gathering to come soon. 🖤

GREETINGS, our dear world. We are happy introduce the Southern Proletariat Music Company, and are proudly announcing out Roots Mix that will be broadcasted on @nts_radio (CH 2) on this Sunday 9/21, 12pm EST! Link in the bio! Our stories from thru music from the 757 and the DMV will speak to the stories that would soon be intertwined from our calling as classical musicians and our connection to the history and recollections of our Black American music experiences. Keep an eye out for our upcoming newsletter and sign-up for our email list! We can’t wait to begin to share these stories with you all. Much love and welcome, welcome, welcome!

may thru august (and april 23rd): slide 01: cum laude! now deal with that! 👨🏽‍🎓 slide 04: Southern Proletariat Music Company hive 🧑🏽‍🌾 slide 06: look at my Messenger family! slide 10: special visitor! slide 14: 2014 backstage shenanigans?? slide 15: forever grateful for these music leaders of our courageous next generation of songfolk! slide 17: Rinaldo crew! 🥊

it’s not too late for a 'season' announcement… right? anyways, i’m so excited to be opening (and closing) my first Handel opera as the title role of Rinaldo TODAY at 5pm and TOMORROW (4/23) at 8pm! please come out to support my amazing castmates! couldn’t have asked for a better group of talented, committed singin’ folk. it’s been quite the journey getting immersed into this great role and i’m very grateful to culminate my time and experiences at MSM with an opera such as this one. link to the livestream and ticket info in my bio! in the meantime, feel free to stay tuned to the other awesome happenings that are happening real soon! happy sprang and earth day, and post-holy week! 🫶🏽 📸: theeeee @wjsandel

whew! I am humbled to present my POSTgraduate voice recital on March 22nd! it's crazy to think that this @msm.nyc ride is almost over! I am excited to sing some standard repertoire that I love to play around with, a couple Afro-Latin Spanish songs, along with Black American tunes that include spirituals and some ever-loving Duke tunes. aaaand my dear sister, @_fisherrrrrr will be narrating words by a few esteemed Black figures who've inspired me and the recital's theme. in this program, I wanted to shed more light on the uplifting material that us everyday folx could use, especially when the efforts to love, to resist, to belong, and to mobilize on this land and other lands alike are constantly being challenged — but not moved. as always, biiiiig shoutouts and blessings to my fellow musician-friends at MSM who graciously agreed to collaborate on this recital! the program will also include another special dedication to my late grandmother JoAnn and my late Aunt Eileen, with a recording of them singing a gospel interlude for a wedding in their community. the livestream link will be available in the bio closer to the date of the recital. sending my best and hoping to see you there! 🖤

my (cont'd) 2024 deep cuts! slide 2: sweet lil baby Elis! slide 10: big (belated) shoutout to theee Marsha LeBoeuf, who is now a costumer director retiree from @washnatopera . as a teen, it was really cool watching her work because she stood 1000 toes on business, and just had fun at the same time! she knew eeeevery costume from eeeevery show in the WNO books, and I was always excited to get a costume fitting from her. the flowers are long overdue! slide 20: impromptu summer headshot on film by @wjsandel 🫶🏽 [part 2/3: summer months]

my 2024 deep cuts! giving thanks! [part 1/3: january-june]

greetiiiiings! the time has come for me to present my graduate voice recital on Sunday, 3/17/24! in over a week's time… what a quick and valuable ride grad school at @msm.nyc has been! i’m so excited to be presenting some Vivaldi, Brahms, Barber, Ravel and Black American music that makes this recital feel quite special. i’m especially thrilled to perform some early tunes by the benevolent @beverlyglenncopeland and one of my favorite works by a hometown hero, Duke Ellington. shoutout and deeeep gratitude to the special musician friends + collaborators who graciously agreed to join me on this program. it’s also a great joy to have the first friend i made in undergrad, my dear sister, @_fisherrrrrr as narrator of the words once spoken + written by the Black women writers who inspired and affirmed my own sentiments of the meaning of home: as a place to love, to belong, to organize, and to resist. i'm humbled under the floor, but so blessed. this recital is a dedication to so many who sent their love + support from home to here and anywhere! this program is a special dedication to the memory of my late grandmother, Jo Ann Marshall, who is one of my earliest reasons to be an artist and who will be featured with a posthumous recorded performance. the livestream link will be available in the bio! sending love, hope to see you there! thinking of words to say to my 14-year-old self right now……