Our Song, Our Story
Griot String Quartet, Damien Sneed, Jacqueline Echols McCarley, Amyr Joyner, Edward W. Hardy, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Miles Goosby, Justin Austin
Sneed conceived of the album as a kind of quilt, and how, in AfricanAmerican culture, quilts are a 'form of storytelling' which hold history and community identity together through their variety....
Our Song, Our Story
Griot String Quartet, Damien Sneed, Jacqueline Echols McCarley, Amyr Joyner, Edward W. Hardy, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Miles Goosby, Justin Austin
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Sneed conceived of the album as a kind of quilt, and how, in AfricanAmerican culture, quilts are a 'form of storytelling' which hold history and community identity together through their variety....
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Contents and tracklist
Harry Burleigh:
There Is A Balm In Gilead (Arr. for String Quartet, Piano & Voice by Damien Sneed)
Work length3:28
- Griot String Quartet, Damien Sneed, Jacqueline Echols McCarley, Amyr Joyner, Edward W. Hardy, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Miles Goosby
Marsalis, W:
The Abyssinian Mass: The Lord's Prayer (Arr. for Piano & Voice by Damien Sneed)
Work length3:21
- Justin Austin, Damien Sneed
Harry Burleigh:
5 Songs of Laurence Hope: No. 5, Till I Wake (Arr. For String Quartet, Piano & Voice by Damien Sneed)
Work length4:29
- Griot String Quartet, Jacqueline Echols McCarley, Damien Sneed, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Miles Goosby, Amyr Joyner, Edward W. Hardy
Sneed:
Old American Songs, Set 2: No. 1, Little Horses (Arr. for String Quartet, Piano & Voice by Damien Sneed)
Work length2:57
- Griot String Quartet, Damien Sneed, Justin Austin, Edward W. Hardy, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Amyr Joyner, Miles Goosby
Gershwin:
Porgy and Bess: Summertime (Clara) [Arr. for Piano & Voice by Damien Sneed]
Work length2:53
- Jacqueline Echols McCarley, Damien Sneed
- Griot String Quartet, Damien Sneed, Justin Austin, Edward W. Hardy, Miles Goosby, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Amyr Joyner
Puccini:
La Rondine, SC 83, Act I: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Magda) [Arr. for Piano & Voice by Damien Sneed]
Work length2:50
- Damien Sneed, Jacqueline Echols McCarley
Terence Blanchard:
Fire Shut Up In My Bones, Act III: I used to hate the night...When I was just a little boy (Charles) [Arr. for String Quartet, Piano & Voice by Damien Sneed]
Work length9:56
- Griot String Quartet, Justin Austin, Damien Sneed, Jacqueline Echols McCarley, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Edward W. Hardy, Amyr Joyner, Miles Goosby
- Griot String Quartet, Justin Austin, Damien Sneed, Edward W. Hardy, Amyr Joyner, Miles Goosby, Braimah Kanneh-Mason
- Griot String Quartet, Justin Austin, Damien Sneed, Jacqueline Echols McCarley, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Amyr Joyner, Miles Goosby, Edward W. Hardy
trad.:
He's Got the Whole World In His Hands (Arr. for String Quartet, Piano & Voice by Damien Sneed)
Work length2:33
- Griot String Quartet, Jacqueline Echols McCarley, Damien Sneed, Miles Goosby, Amyr Joyner, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Edward W. Hardy
- Damien Sneed, Jacqueline Echols McCarley, Justin Austin
William M. Runyan:
Great Is Thy Faithfulness (Arr. for Piano & Voice by Damien Sneed)
Work length6:52
- Damien Sneed, Jacqueline Echols McCarley
- Jacqueline Echols McCarley, Damien Sneed, Justin Austin
Andrae Edward Crouch:
My Tribute (To God Be the Glory) [Arr. for Piano & Voice by Damien Sneed]
Work length5:09
- Justin Austin, Jacqueline Echols McCarley, Damien Sneed
Awards and reviews
October 2025
Sneed conceived of the album as a kind of quilt, and how, in AfricanAmerican culture, quilts are a 'form of storytelling' which hold history and community identity together through their variety. This clever and imaginative programme does just this.
