Watch: Sacramento’s Empire Arts Collective performs live on The Bee’s Band Together
Watch tonight’s performance in the video below.
We’ve had poets and hip hop artists, guitarists and a cellist. For this week’s Band Together performance at 6 p.m., we’re mixing it up with some theater.
The Empire Arts Collective, a Sacramento non-profit performing arts incubator, has organized a show for The Sacramento Bee’s weekly live concert series.
Empire will put on a performance of “A Familiar Feeling,” a “new production about families, ghosts, and cycles of triumph and trauma that reverberate through generations.”
According to the group, the play is “a devised work of theatre, which means that the performers are creating the piece together in rehearsal, under the guidance of director Lily Tanner.” There isn’t a production date for the performance yet, but the collective has been hosting regular virtual rehearsals.
To support Empire Arts Collective, check out their donation page here.
WHERE TO WATCH TONIGHT AT 6 P.M.
Right here on sacbee.com.
On The Bee’s Facebook page. (RSVP here.)
On our YouTube page.
Here’s a list of tonight’s performers, along with their bios:
Tresa Edmunds
Tresa Edmunds is an award winning activist, writer, and performer whose work has been featured everywhere from Bitch Magazine to Better Homes and Gardens. She runs popular lifestyle blog and Youtube channel ReeseDixon, and regularly performs on comedy and storytelling stages around the country. She lives in Davis with her husband, son, and assortment of cats.
Robert Hansen
Robert Hansen has been involved in music and theatre since elementary school. He was most recently seen as a member of the men’s chorus in Sacramento Opera Company’s “Rigoletto” and “Once More, with Feeling!” presented by Empire Arts Collective.
Dani Walsh
An ACT graduate, Danielle has starred in multiple Sacramento short films and recently made her theatrical debut in Once More, With Feeling! (Empire Arts Collective). She spends her free time adventuring with her dog Annie. You can follow along @daniwalsh93 on Instagram.
Sandi Lang
Sandi started her life out as a dancer, but quickly found a love for theater in college. She has her BA in theater from Sac State. After graduating, she moved to Mendocino County and worked with Mendocino Ballet as a dance teacher and a production manager for 4 years. She currently serves on the board of directors for Empire Arts Collective and was recently seen in their production of Tiny Lives, directed by Lily Tanner.
Lindsey Molineaux
Lindsey Molineaux has been on again/off again in the Sacramento Theatre scene since she was 8/9. She was in productions within the community as well as the schools she attended growing up and into college at Sac State. Since Sac State, Lindsey has taken more of a back seat to performing, and in more recent years, has been stage managing or production managing youth theatre shows in Sacramento and teaches Theatre Arts to Kinder thru 5th graders in West Sacramento’s school district. She is very glad to be a part of the crew for A Familiar Feeling, and is excited to help showcase the work the cast has been doing this evening.
Lily Tanner
If you’ve been following Empire Arts, you’ve likely seen Lily’s work, as she directed the 2019 production of OMWF, created/directed/performed in the original devised piece “Tiny Lives,” recently served as a directing mentor for “Once More with Feeling!,” and has shoehorned her way into as many spoken word solos that she can in Pop Choir. Lily would like to thank Emily and Jessilee for all their hard work in creating opportunities for her and so many more artists in Sacramento.
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Watch previous Band Together performances:
PHILHARMONIK, ANDYES & MC RADIOACTIVE
BIRD CONTROL, CASSETTE IDOLS, MEAN MUGGERS
CELLIST SUSAN LAMB COOK
This story was originally published May 15, 2020 at 1:31 PM.