PaviElle French Presents: I Am SOVEREIGN
Sharolyn B. Hagen Photography
Sunday, August 7, 2022
6 pm Doors // 7 pm Premiere Screening + Performance
$20 Advance // $27 At The Door
All Ages
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Emmy Award-winning musician and composer PaviElle invites the Twin Cities community to join her for an evening celebrating the premiere release of her documentary film I Am SOVEREIGN, an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the making of PaviElle’s newest album, SOVEREIGN.
Following the screening, PaviElle and her full band will perform SOVEREIGN in its entirety, along with other original compositions.
Filmed by Peter Myers, I Am SOVEREIGN chronicles the making of artist and composer PaviElle French's latest album SOVEREIGN. In the film, PaviElle deeply opens up about her thoughts, journey, musicianship, and activism in her art, during this time of racial unrest, the pandemic, and her thoughts on Freedom and Liberation. This documentary is a powerful testament to PaviElle’s courage, perseverance and artistry. This work precedes PaviElle's latest piece, The SOVEREIGN Suite, commissioned by The Schubert Club and performed in May 2022.
Sharolyn B. Hagen Photography
PaviElle is an Emmy Award winning, interdisciplinary artist, hailing from Rondo — a historically Black neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (21-22), as well as a McKnight Artist Fellow (2020), and has received a Sage (Cowles) Award for Dance and Choreography. She is a Global Artists Initiative - Artist In Residence at MacPhail Center For The Arts and an American Composers Forum Grant recipient for her classical composition A Requiem for Zula, (2018), written in celebration of her Mother's life. PaviElle's symphony was featured at the New World Symphony in April 2021, under the direction of Conductor Edwin Outwater and Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas.
PaviElle has performed to acclaim both locally and nationally, and has graced such stages as First Avenue, The Ordway Center, and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, to name a few. She is known for her powerhouse vocals and performing with an equally powerful 6-piece band. PaviElle was voted as City Pages "Best R&B Vocalist of 2015," her band was named one of First Avenue's Best New Bands of (2015), and was a featured artist on TPT's "Lowertown Line'' (2015).
Sharolyn B. Hagen Photography
Growing up in a family steeped in music, she says that she wants to make music that honors and represents the Black Arts aesthetic. PaviElle honed her craft as a youth at Penumbra Theatre, SteppingStone Theatre and with the collective, EduPoetic Enterbrainment. Most recently, she launched a residency through the American Composers Forum funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. She has been commissioned by The Schubert Club to write The SOVEREIGN Suite, which premiered in May of 2022. And she was commissioned by the Sands Family to create a symphony in honor of their 50th Anniversary. Sands Of Time was debuted by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in June 2022.