Side Yard Sounds
Compound Yellow
#244 Lake Street, Oak Park, Il.
Tickets $15, https://www.ticketleap.events/.../improvisation-vol-2...

Join us Saturday, August 10th from 7pm to 9pm in the Compound Yellow Side Yard for: Ephemeral Improvisations vol.3 : David Boykin and Makeba Kedem-DuBose

Experimental improvisational duet between saxophonist and drummer David Boykin and artist Makeba Kedem-DuBose. The duet will be structured by the quote from Eric Dolphy regarding the ephemerality of music: “When you hear music, after it’s over, it’s gone in the air. You can never capture it again.”

David Boykin is one of the most important and enigmatic musicians of Chicago’s creative music scene in the recent era. He is a revolutionary storyteller working in the mediums of: music composition, band leading, saxophone shamanism, afro-electronic soul singing, rapping, beat producing, conceptual art, and film making. He has released over 20 album length recordings while performing in venues large and small from Hong Kong, to Dakar, to Moscow, to Paris, to St Louis in the last 24 years. He has exhibited artwork at the University of Chicago and the Chicago Art Department.

Chicago native Makeba Kedem-DuBose boasts a three-decade career as an artist, jurist, curator, educator, NP creative director, and gallerist. As the former creative director of the now-closed
Chicago Global Health Alliance, she recently traveled to Recife, Brazil, to create paintings for IMIP Hospital, which remain in their collection. Her recent exhibitions include the 2023/2024 solo show; Here Comes the Sun: In My Own Image at Forshey Gallery in the Chicago Temple, and group exhibition; Sapphire and Crystals: Freedom’s MUSE; at the University of Chicago's Logan Center. In spring 2023, she was invited to curate the second iteration of her acclaimed 2015 exhibition; Migrations in Black and
White; opening August 2024, at the Evanston Art Center. Additionally, she is co-curating “In Conversation with Dale Washington,” honoring the late Chicago artist, at the Bridgeport Art Center, opening July 2024.

Noteworthy achievements include a 2021 Field Museum acquisition and a 3Arts Award nomination. Kedem-DuBose studied interior design at Harrington College of Design and
completed a Visual Arts Certification in Curatorial Practices from the University of Chicago’s Graham School, hosted at the Hyde Park Art Center. She has exhibited as an independent
multidisciplinary artist, as well for the past two decades as a member of the Sapphire and Crystals collective.