In 2010, folk singer and songwriter Zoe Boekbinder (they/them) visited New Folsom Prison for the first time. What they thought would be one interesting day turned into a decade-long collaborative project. Boekbinder visited the prison often over the next five years; performing and teaching music workshops quickly turned into the beginnings of collaborations with writers and musicians who were incarcerated within New Folsom’s walls. This was the seed for the Prison Music Project and the culminating album, Long Time Gone, produced by Ani DiFranco.

Releasing June 5, 2020 (Righteous Babe Records), the album features work by nine incarcerated (and formerly incarcerated) writers. The profits of Long Time Gone will benefit communities impacted by mass incarceration and the funds will be administered by the Southern Center for Human Rights.

Listen and pre-order: righteousbabe.ffm.to/prisonmusicproject
Read more: prisonmusicproject.com

THE PRISON MUSIC PROJECT SESSIONS: LONG TIME GONE ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT

June 12, 2020 at 8pm CDT

Tune in to The Prison Music Project Sessions: Long Time Gone Album Release Concert featuring Ani DiFranco, Zoe Boekbinder, Terence Higgins, free feral, Launa Reed, and more streaming on LivexLive at 8pm Central on Friday, June 12. The performance was filmed at Esplanade Studios in New Orleans before an invisible audience and will feature call-in readings by incarcerated poets and break-away videos of some of the Prison Music Project’s other contributing writers. Profits from this event will benefit Sister Hearts Re-entry Program in New Orleans and the Center for Life Without Parole Studies. The concert can be re-streamed immediately after the original airing and through June 14.

All tickets purchased for the original date of June 5 will be honored and work for the new date.

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The virtual concert is part of the larger Prison Prism Radio Festival on Righteous Babe Radio, a week-long radio festival dedicated to discussions about our criminal justice system, broadcasting from June 1-12. Listen at righteousbaberadio.com

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For more information please visit: Prison Music Project