Meet Our June 2025 Sponsor: Juneteenth LP

29 May 2025 · 3 min

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This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube sponsor announcement titled "Meet Our June 2025 Sponsor: Juneteenth LP" (posted 2025-05-29). The excerpt is a short promotional segment with two speakers: SPEAKER A, who introduces the sponsor, and Dr. Nana Ogboh (SPEAKER B), pianist and founder of Juneteenth LP. Dr. Ogboh describes the collective's mission to celebrate Black classical and diaspora music, outlines Juneteenth Festival Week 2025 events across New York City (including concerts at Reservoir Studios, the Interchurch Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the 10th annual Juneteenth celebration at Joe's Pub), acknowledges supporters (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Aaron Copland Fund, Chamber Music America), and notes Juneteenth LP's sponsorship of Yukimi Song's The Piano Pod (season 5). The content is promotional/informational rather than a multi-party conversational interview.

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I am excited to introduce our sponsor of the month, Juneteenth LP, a powerful ensemble and organization dedicated to celebrating Black artistry, history, and legacy through music. Their generous support makes our June episodes possible.
Hello, I'm Dr. Nana Ogboh, pianist and founder of Juneteenth LP, a Harlem-based collective of Black classically trained musicians dedicated to celebrating the music of the African diaspora through bold, genre-defying performances that redefine what classical music can be and who it's for. At Juneteenth LP, we believe in access, outreach, and community building through music. Whether we're performing a rarely heard music, piece of music by a Black composer, or reimagining soul and gospel classics, or creating immersive education modules for schools, we're always expanding and growing audiences. When we play, we invite listeners into a richer, more inclusive musical world. This year marks a huge milestone for us, 10 years of our Juneteenth celebration at Jones Pop— What started as a single night of music and liberation has blossomed into a full week of concert and events. Thanks to support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Aaron Copland Fund, and Chamber Music America, we are thrilled to invite you to Juneteenth Festival Week 2025, a week of concerts and conversations across New York City. We kick things off with Portrait of an Artist event at Reservoir Studios in Midtown Manhattan and continue on with a noonday concert at Interchurch Center. Followed by date night performances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Finally, on June 10th at 6:30 PM, June 19th, join us for our 10th annual Juneteenth celebration concert at Joe's Pub. It's our signature event where genre-defying performances, powerful storytelling, and a spirit of joy come together in one unforgettable night. We're also so excited to be sponsoring the June episodes of Yukimi Song's The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song, wrapping up season 5. Pianists Dr. Leah Clayborne and Dr. Maria Thompson Corley are incredible artists and educators with truly fascinating lives, and these interviews promise to be absolutely captivating. At Juneteenth LP, we center representation, cultural connection, and musical excellence, whether through performances, education, archival work. Our goal is simple: to make classical music more inclusive and more expansive. We're reimagining what classical music can be by honoring its past, transforming its present, and opening doors for the future. Please join us on the 19th at Jazz Pop for a wonderful, wonderful concert. We know you'll enjoy it. And I'm feeling good.