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What exactly is Juneteenth LP?

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We are a music collective of mostly classically trained musicians of the African diaspora.

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Our mission is to introduce people to classical music by African diaspora composers, but the

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gateway is more familiar music to them.

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So we play music of all genres.

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You know there are these two sort of very distinctly different styles.

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People were really, really receptive to the music that I was playing, but I think that

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they were not just receptive to what we were playing, they were receptive to the fact that

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I talked about the music.

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And I talked about how the music spoke to me and I invited the audience to engage with,

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you know, what did they hear?

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One of the things that people ask me a lot is, what is the impact you want your ensemble

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to have?

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And then what is the impact you think it actually does have?

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I would say that what I want is for it to open people's ears, you know, open people's

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minds and open people's hearts.

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I just want people to feel something and I want people to know that this music that is

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considered very elite and rare and you know all of those things, that actually they have

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a cultural history with it as well.

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Like it is not something that they have to be on the outside looking in.

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The arts sustain us and they sustain us sort of spiritually.

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It's not food and it's not shelter and it's not clothing, but it's pretty darn important

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and we need it in our lives to sort of feel whole.

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Tune in this Tuesday, October 17th at 8 p.m. Eastern for an enlightening conversation with

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concert pianist, educator and founder of Juneteenth LP Dr. Nena Aguo on the Pianopause YouTube

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channel or wherever you listen to your podcast.

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