Experience the mesmerizing journey of Corinne Bailey Rae’s Black Rainbows at Summerstage. With her soulful voice and captivating stage presence, she weaves a tapestry of emotion, blending jazz, garage rock, R&B, and pop into an unforgettable performance. Be transported on a journey of love, loss, and resilience as she brings her acclaimed album to life with intimate storytelling and soul-stirring melodies.

inspired by the objects and artworks collected by Theaster Gates at the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago, the work includes a collection of songs, a book Reflections/Refractions at the Arts Bank photographed by Koto Bolofo, live performances, visuals, lectures, exhibitions and more.
Wide ranging in it’s themes, Black Rainbows’ subjects are drawn from encounters with objects in the Arts Bank. Taking us from the rock hewn churches of Ethiopia, to the journeys of Black Pioneers Westward, from Miss New York Transit 1957, to how the sunset appears from Harriet Jacobs’ loophole. Black Rainbows explores Black femininity, Spell Work, Inner Space/Outer Space, time collapse and ancestors, the erasure Black childhood and music as a vessel for transcendence.

[Verse 1]
Finger tip to finger tip (Ah)
Eye to eye (Ah)
Lay your hip against my hip (Ah)
Feet entwined (Ah)
We are here in this moment (Ah)
And forever more

[Verse 2]
The freedom of this moment
Echoes to eternity
A lightning strike burned into the retina
Dances forever in the memory

[Verse 3]
We honor you
We make a spell, a prayer for you
We long to arc our arm through history
To unpick every thread
To unpick every thread
We long to arc our arm through history
To unpick еvery thread
To unpick evеry thread
We long to arc our arm through history
To unpick every thread
To unpick every thread of pain
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[Outro]
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah

We honor you
We make a spell, a prayer for you
A prayer for you


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