LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Comprised of singers from the Urban Voices Project—a Skid Row choir of artists who have experienced homelessness—and student musicians from the USC Thornton School of Music, the Trailblazers were born during a week of intensive music-making and story-sharing in fall 2018. Channeling strength through adversity and fellowship across divides, their performance will incorporate original creations alongside the Urban Voices repertoire of songs performed in the streets, parks, and missions of Skid Row.