Join the Musicambia family for an evening of food and drink, performances by the Cambia Collective (our all-star ensemble of Musicambia Alumni and Teaching Artists), and an auction—all to support transformative music-making inside prisons.

Event Details

Schedule

6:00 – 6:30 PM: Drinks and light fare
6:30 – 7:30 PM: Cambia Collective performance & program
7:30 – 8:00 PM: Dessert and auction

Attire

We encourage fun and festive cocktail attire!

Tax Information & Sponsorships

All but $25 of each ticket received is tax deductible.

*Please consider sponsoring a seat for an Musicambia Alumnus or family member. We want to ensure our Spring Benefit remains accessible to our community.

About Musicambia

History

Musicambia is an educational program which brings professional musicians inside prisons to teach incarcerated people. Our Flagship Program, which began at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 2014, meets every other Saturday from September to June. Thirty-two incarcerated musicians currently attend morning and afternoon classes for 5 hours, and in doing so, foster teamwork, empathy, and a sense of responsibility to themselves as well as to their fellow students.

Today, we also operate the Jeptha Program (Mental Health Unit) and Summer Songwriting Workshop at Sing Sing. In addition, we now have programs at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, and in Kansas and California. We annually reach 125 incarcerated participants, as well as audiences of some 220 incarcerated people attending our concerts. Previously, we worked in Indiana and South Carolina: all told, Musicambia has created programs in 10 different facilities.

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Teaching Artists

Musicambia's Teaching Artists are among the finest musicians and teachers in the nation. They hold positions in the Attacca Quartet and Imani Winds, and teach at Juilliard, Curtis, Princeton, and Peabody. They have won GRAMMY awards; collaborated with Pulitzer-Prize winners and legendary musicians like Prince; and performed at Carnegie Hall. Their musical backgrounds span Western classical, jazz, hip-hop, and popular genres, as well as Indian classical ragas. One, Kenyatta Emmanuel, is also an Alumnus. He performed a full concert at Carnegie Hall the day he was released.

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Sing Sing Flagship Program

Lansing Biannual Songwriting Workshops

About our Goal

Our goal is to raise $45,000 by June 1, to support our 4 core programs in the 2024-25 season:
$15,000 Sing Sing (biweekly Flagship, monthly Jeptha, one-week Summer Songwriting Workshop)
$14,000 Bedford Hills (weekly)
$7,000 Lansing (biannual one-week workshops)
$9,000 San Quentin (biannual one-week workshops)

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