Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology is an internationally award-winning, Off-Broadway theatrical triumph and an 8-time NAACP Theatre Awards nominee—an electrifying celebration of the life, music and revolutionary voice of Gil Scott-Heron.  Melody Maker called Scott-Heron “The Most Dangerous Musician Alive” and Gil is widely regarded as the forefather of rap music.

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This fierce band of spoken word artists are spittin' fire and blazin' stages in rhythm and the prophetic truth of Scott-Heron’s iconic works—words that resonate today with even greater urgency.

 

Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology features the legends daughter, Gia Scott-Heron and bridges generations through poetry, music, memory, and resistance.  Gil described himself as a “Bluesologist”—an artist whose work fused jazz, blues and spoken word into fearless social commentary. His poetry captures the turbulence, contradictions, humor and humanity of his era with razor-sharp satire in the rich tradition of oral poetry and storytelling.

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Interwoven between the timeless words of Gil Scott-Heron, these electrifying poets, Tuesday Conner, Gia Scott-Heron, Yawo Watts, Conney Williams, Lorenzo Frank, Denise Lyles-Cook aka The ORACLE and Artus Mansoir weave their own personal poetic journeys into the story and ignite a rip roaring fire with guest artists Victor Orlando and Father Amde Hamilton of The Watts Prophets.

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Incorporating songs in rotation from all seventeen of Gil's albums, no two performances are the same.  You'll hear his words again, you'll cry and you'll laugh and your heart light will glow, you'll fight back some tears, you'll sing, you'll know lyrics you haven't heard in a long while and you'll learn about the man...the icon, the legend, Gil Scott-Heron.