Returning to NWMF for the first time in many years, Adrienne Torf will perform original piano compositions, and Voices of the Revolution will join her to perform the Freedom Now Suite, a sixteen-minute piece for spoken word, gospel singing and piano by Torf and her long-time collaborator, the late poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan.
Adrienne’s recordings include two solo albums of original compositions for piano and synthesizers, Brooklyn From the Roof (1986) and Two Hands Open (2003), and June Jordan and Adrienne Torf Collaboration: Selected Works, 1983-2000 (2003), and over twenty other commercially released recordings. She toured and recorded with Holly Near, Linda Tillery, Ferron, Cris Williamson, Meg Christian and Kay Gardner, among others. In 2022, Adrienne co-developed the theater piece Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience with Raymond O. Caldwell at Theater Alliance / IN Series in Washington D.C.; the show was awarded the 2023 Helen Hayes Theater Washington Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical Adaptation and was reprised for a four-week run in 2024. Her community-collaboration performance piece “The Awesome Difficult Work of Love” has been produced in Madison, Wisconsin (2008), San Francisco, California (2012) and Sedona, Arizona (2022).