Re:Charge
July 18, 2020
At Re:Charge, a concert designed for socially distanced audience and performers, there was an intense instant where the music and the cultural moment intersected profoundly. Pianist Joseph Jevanni Billups and cellist Yamilet Trujillo performed "Duet for Heart and Breath," a piece that calls for the pianist to use a stethoscope to play in time with their heartbeat, while the cellist plays in time with their breath. Billups, a Black man, wore a shirt that read "Get yo knee off my neck." The delicate, plaintive music was given entirely new meaning as the country reeled from the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor while tens of thousands of Americans died alone on ventilators. Painful but cathartic.
Music & Nightlife: Best of Orlando 2020
Music & Nightlife
1st: Will's Pub willspub.org
2nd: Hourglass Brewing hourglassbrewing.com
3rd: Southern Nights Orlando facebook.com/southernnightsorlando
1st: Robbie Kennerney, Throwbacks Sanford, throwbackssanford.business.site
2nd: Shane Williams, Hourglass Brewing hourglassbrewing.com
3rd: Jen Harton, Lil Indie's willspub.org
1st: Angel of Boom
2nd: DJ Chocolate Rain instagram.com/dj_chocolate_rain
3rd: DJ BMF facebook.com/deejaybmf
1st: '80s New Wave Night at Independent Bar, independentbar.net
2nd: Girl the Party at Southern Nights Orlando girltheparty.com
3rd: Mac & Cheese '90s Night at Independent Bar independentbar.net
1st: Lil Indie's willspub.org
2nd: Mathers Social Gathering mathersorlando.com
3rd: The Guesthouse instagram.com/the_guesthouse
1st: Crooked Can Brewing Company crookedcan.com
2nd: Hourglass Brewing hourglassbrewing.com
3rd: Redlight Redlight redlightredlightbeerparlour.com
1st: Independent Bar independentbar.net
2nd: Southern Nights Orlando facebook.com/southernnightsorlando
3rd: Parliament House parliamenthouse.com
1st: Will's Pub willspub.org
2nd: Hideaway Bar facebook.com/hideawaybarfl
3rd: West End Trading Co. drinkatwestend.com
