Strange Fruit

from Strange Fruit by Naomi Westwater

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This song is a fundraiser for The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Suggested donation is $10.00, or donate what you can.

Naomi Westwater recorded “Strange Fruit” in March 2019 as part of her Post Master’s Fellowship at Berklee College of Music. It is a song Naomi has been singing for over a decade, ever since she saw historic photos of Black lynchings for a college assignment. “It breaks my heart to sing this song. I feel emotionally exhausted after working on it, but it is part of a dark history of racism in the United States, and a story that needs to be retold until Justice has been served.”

Originally written by Lewis Allan as a poem, Naomi is proud to join Billie Holiday, Nina Simon, and many other Black women who have been singing this song since the 1930s. “Strange Fruit” will be released on Bandcamp on Friday, July 17th, and available on streaming services on Friday, July 24th. All money received from the Bandcamp download will be donated to The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the Nation’s first memorial dedicated to “people terrorized by lynching.”

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from Strange Fruit, track released July 17, 2020
Daniel Babai (recording engineer)
Alex Chacon (electric guitar)
Joe Miller (mastering engineer)
Francis Peña (drums)
Dana Roth (electric bass)
Cara Totman (photographer)
Naomi Westwater (producer, vocals)

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Naomi Westwater Brockton, Massachusetts

Naomi Westwater (they/them) is a multimedia artist from Massachusetts. Their work combines music and music production with creative writing, visual art, intuition, and spirituality.

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