TEDxFruitvale - Zoe Ellis, Crystal Monee Hall, and Valerie Troutt - The Trouble I've Seen October 20, 2011

Favorite:

This well-known song started out its life as a traditional African-American spiritual that once brought comfort to this country's first farmworkers.

About Zoë Ellis, Crystal Monee Hall, and Valerie Troutt, singers:
Zoë is the leader of her own quartet as well as an eight-piece ensemble known as Zadell (Zoë and Dave Ellis) with her older brother, a tenor sax player. You can find her album Zoë Ellis Live at Anna's Jazz Island on iTunes. Crystal was a featured vocalist with the Tony Award-winning musical Rent. Her debut album, River Train, was released last year. Valerie is the featured vocalist in Nicole Klaymoon's Embodiment Project, the lead singer in trumpeter Marcus Cohen's soul orchestra The Congress, and a voice instructor at the East Bay Performing Art Center of Richmond, CA. She is also the director of the Divinity Voice music and art series.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event:

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

This performance concluded Session Two: Movement for TEDxFruitvale, which was held on October 14, 2011 at Mills College in Oakland, CA. The conference's theme was Harvesting Change, and it focused on farmworkers, labor and other social justice movements, and fair labor practices in business.
http://www.tedxfruitvale.org/