Zoom Tunes
Guest artist Aisha Fukushima inaugurates this semester’s Swarthmore College Zoom Tunes performance series on February 21.
The Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College will host a virtual performance series, Zoom Tunes, that brings prominent guest artists to the Swarthmore community over Zoom on Sundays at 1 p.m., beginning on February 21.
This semester’s series focuses on music, activism, and social justice.
Sunday, February 21
Aisha Fukushima
Aisha Fukushima is a performance lecturer, justice strategist, singer/songwriter, and RAPtivist (rap activist). She is a multilingual, multiracial, African American Japanese woman who brings hip-hop, global citizenship, empowerment, feminism, and cultural activism together through storytelling and musical performance.
Sunday, February 28
Martronimous
Martronimous is a West Philadelphia-based trumpet player, producer, and multidisciplinary artist. Mixing jazz, hip-hop, and electronic music, their work uses beats and horns as a way of chasing dreams, healing, and getting free.
Sunday, March 7
Nobuko Miyamoto
Singer, songwriter, and activist Nobuko Miyamoto sees the arts as a means of social change and solidarity across cultural borders. Her Smithsonian Folkways album “120,000 Stories” is named for the number of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. The album explores how her identity as a Japanese American woman intertwines Asian and Black experience, as well as her concerns about climate change.
The performances will be available on the college’s YouTube channel: swat.ink/zoom-tunes.
