Hannabiell & Midnight Blue fuse together Afro-Caribbean & Latin percussion, Jazz, Afro-beat, Funk, and Reggae to create their unique sound.

Treedrum . Protest Culture

Protest Culture (Featuring Ladies Of Midnight Blue & Climbing Poetree)  

Naima’s Lyrics:
Take a stand, for what you believe in
convene your team, its time to rise up 
decide what you willing to die for,
clock is ticking, world is shifting, alright now times up!
 
you want change? gotta break these chains, yeah!
trade em in for a brand new day
we are the ones we've been waiting to come
the countdown is ON your mark, get set, run
 
we source our strength, straight from the sun
we store the sky, deep in our lungs
our chests are loaded like guns
we spit hymns to the rhythm of drums
 
a grenade is waiting up under my tongue
My throat will self-destruct by the time this poem’s done
in the meantime l'ma speak on what I seen come 
how will we know where we’re going if we don’t know where we’re from?
 
All my women, stand up!
All my queer folk, stand up!
All my allies, stand up!  
All my dreamers, stand up!
All my farmers, stand up!
All my artists, stand up!
All my healers, stand up!
All my people, stand up!

If so much is controlled by so few
Imagine how much your whole crew could do
When you consider the system runs off our fuel
we'll stop running along and see who’s ruling who'
the game don't exist if we don't play by it's rules       
 
WE DEMAND:
government transparency, fairness and honesty
no more corporate hegemony, the abolition of poverty,
gender equality, indigenous sovereignty
bio-diversity, racial harmony
 
common ground open space public property
true participation in a true democracy
respect for the planet's ecology
stop modifying genes microscopically  
 
we demand wealth be distributed properly
strip search the colonists for stolen property
pay back reparations, we demand compensation
fair labor, workers paid what they outta be
 
heads of state give a public apology
G-8 nations stop playing your monopoly 
decolonize our people's psychology
we wanna love who we love, 
wanna be who we wanna be!

Alixa’s Lyrics
The alchemist’s gold
Was never the goal
And the emperor needs new clothing
We were transforming
Growing wings where there was only bone

Cause there is nowhere left to go
These fires long been burning
Bursting seeds wide open
We are no longer condoning
Or paying homage to your violence
That keeps our hearts hostage
I said, this rope is no longer the gate keeper’s bondage

We unraveling your nooses for these sails
We trust the wind will guide the journey
Of a thousand steps
The first is the most important turning

And we’ve been marching
Reigniting the slow riot
The calm storm
Truths be told
Too many lies been bound and sold
From auction blocks to rock and roll
We bringing back that southern stroll
 
Nina Simone was the original home
Where swagger was born
We were born by the river
But never running alone
We’ve been marching
This life was never on loan
So you can try to sell your stolen property
Patten life’s codes for all your profits
Deny the indigenous sovereignty
The last shall be first and the first shall be last
Says the oldest prophecy
 
Be the change that you want to see cause love will triumph over the terror & greed
Our unified power cannot be defeat and the first shall be last as the last take the lead

 Be the change that you want to see cause love will triumph over the terror & greed
Our unified power cannot be defeat and the first shall be last as the last take the lead

Protest Culture . Featuring Ladies Of Midnight Blue & Climbing Poetree

Hannabiell & Midnight Blue feat: Paul Ruddick (sax) & Stephen Oliver Jones (bass)

Vickie's Speech . Protest Culture

Six Eight Fuego . Protest Culture

Hannabiell & Midnight Blue Featuring Brooke MacArthur

Free Yourself . Feat. Brooke MacArthur . Protest Culture

Tumba (Featuring Brooke MacArthur)

Hannabiell & Midnight Blue perform African Blues Live at the Gateshead International Jazz Festival April 2014 at Sage Gateshead, UK. 

African Blues Live At The Sage Gateshead April 2014

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Hannabiell is a bass trombonist, African & Latin hand percussionist, composer, producer, and activist. Midnight Blue Collective is a high energy ensemble fusing together Afro-Caribbean & Latin percussion, Jazz, Afro-beat, Funk, and Reggae to create their unique sound. It has been described as "Afro-psychedelic funk". Ladies of Midnight Blue are an Afro-Latin percussion & brass duet.

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