LILI BERNARD Performs SONG OF CHE CHANGO at the 2010 Cuban Music Festival in Echo Park, Los Angeles

On Sunday, May 23, 2010, in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, I performed SONG OF CHE CHANGO at the 17th Annual Cuban Music Festival. It is a fifteen minute-long poem/spoken word piece that I wrote which ends in performance art. The work explores Che Guevara the Icon and Che Guevara his words and deeds. I performed the entire piece at the festival, however this video shows only the second part of the performance, which includes the rap with percussion and the performance art. The piece is part of a larger multimedia work-in-progress which I call CEIBA DE CUBA. As usual, my five young sons accompanied me on percussion.

Poetry and Artwork copyright 2010 by Lili Bernard
(paintings on stage are by Joel Lopez Mazon)

PERFORMERS:

Lili Bernard as Che Chango
Rafael Bernard Ferguson on Conga Drum
Isaiah Bernard Ferguson on Tamborine
Elias Bernard Ferguson on Claves
Uriel Bernard Ferguson on Djembe Drum
Joshua Bernard Ferguson on Bongo Drums

Afro-Cuban Dance by Juan Carlos Blanco, Omo Aché Afro-Cuban Music and Dance and Kati Hernandez
Videotaped and edited by Lili Bernard
With additional videography and photography by Jose P. Rodriguez, Wilki Tom, Maria Elena Gil

Special thanks to: Zion Bernard Ferguson, Franklin L. Ferguson Jr., Roger Guenveur Smith, LeTania Kirkland, my Parents, the Ancestors and God

www.LiliBernard.com

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