Article last updated January 17, 2024. By Nayaba Arinde, Editor-at-Large. Gratefully reprinted from Our Time Press (original article). On the day after the January 15th death of Viola Plummer, friends and family gathered at her Sista’s Place jazz and community venue in Bed-Stuy, to commune, reminisce, and share food prepared by Attorney Esmeralda Simmons […]
The Magnificent Homegoing of Viola Plummer, ‘Matriarch of the Movement’
January 30, 2024, Reprinted from The Final Call – January 30, 2024. https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/30/the-magnificent-homegoing-of-viola-plummer-matriarch-of-the-movement/ By Nayaba Arinde, @NayabaArinde1. NEW YORK—The “People’s Republic of Brooklyn,” sent New York-based international activist Viola Plummer home as if she were a head of state, with a grand four-hour funeral with hundreds of family members, friends, and colleagues celebrating her life’s […]
Homecoming Service Videos: Honoring The LIFE and Legacy of Viola Plummer
The service begins with extended music and at 55:15 minutes the introduction starts: https://www.facebook.com/December12thMovement/videos/399602845890257 (60 minutes) The service continues with drumming by Winard Harper and Baba Neil Clarke: https://www.facebook.com/December12thMovement/videos/670461805268413 (59 minutes) The service continues with remarks by a Cuban representative: https://www.facebook.com/December12thMovement/videos/1383900659180496 (59 minutes) The service continues with Charles and Inez Barron: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=708385201399427 (96 minutes)
Black “Ourstory” Sale with Diaspora Arts Collective
Sat., February 3, 2024, Noon – 6 pm, Edutainment: ~3 pm. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, presents a Black “Ourstory” Sale. Market runs from Noon – 6 pm. Around 3 pm is Edutainment by Ruth Hunt, Historian, Genealogist & Master Storyteller. Artists attending include Art From The Planet, Ashanti Fields, Celestine Collection, Hats […]
Patsy Grant Quartet
Sat., February 10, 2024, $30 per set; Showtimes: Doors Open: 7:30 pm, Show: 8 pm. Doors Open: 9 pm, Show: 9:30 pm. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, Frederick Douglass Square (formerly Nostrand & Jefferson Aves.), where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, is in its 29th year with the […]
Eric Frazier Quintet
Sat., February 17, 2024, $30 per set; Showtimes: Doors Open: 7:30 pm, Show: 8 pm. Doors Open: 9 pm, Show: 9:30 pm. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, Frederick Douglass Square (formerly Nostrand & Jefferson Aves.), where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, is in its 29th year with the […]
Requiem for Malcolm X Tribute Concert
Mon., May 19, 2025, $35 per set; Showtimes: Doors Open: 7 pm, Concert: 8 pm, Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, 201 Lenox Ave, @120th St. Harlem, NYC Sistas’ Place, where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, presents This Monday, May 19th, a Requiem for Malcolm X Tribute Concert with Music, […]
Reggie Woods Sextet
Sat., February 24, 2024, $30 per set; Showtimes: Doors Open: 7:30 pm, Show: 8 pm. Doors Open: 9 pm, Show: 9:30 pm. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, Frederick Douglass Square (formerly Nostrand & Jefferson Aves.), where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, is in its 29th year with the […]
Jazz Tribute to Sista Viola Plummer–SOLD OUT!
SOLD OUT! For more info contact Sistas’ Place at (718) 398-1766 . Sun., February 25, 2024, $35, 3 – 7 pm, Bed-Stuy Restoration Corp. 1368 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY Map/directions. Take A,C to Nostrand Ave. & walk 1.5 blocks. LIRR to Nostrand Av. Sistas’ Place where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture […]
Endea Owens Sextet
Sat., March 2, 2024, $30 per set; Showtimes: Doors Open: 7:30 pm, Show: 8 pm. Doors Open: 9 pm, Show: 9:30 pm. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, Frederick Douglass Square (formerly Nostrand & Jefferson Aves.), where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, is in its 29th year with the […]
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