Breathe Love--- Even on a Rainy Day: COMMON: BLUEBIRD MEMORIES: A Journey Through Lyrics and Life! Audible at Minetta Lane Theater, NYC January 10-12, 2020

Saturday, January 11, 2020

COMMON: BLUEBIRD MEMORIES: A Journey Through Lyrics and Life! Audible at Minetta Lane Theater, NYC January 10-12, 2020

Beautiful People,

Last Night Carol Maillard and Louise Robinson, two of the founding and current members of #SweetHoneyInTheRock attended

Common: BLUEBIRD MEMORIES: A Journey Through Lyrics and Life

Audible at Minetta Lane Theater in NYC.

We were blessed to see and speak with Whoopi Goldberg whom we all love and saw many incredible people including Nadine Khan, DJ John Michael, Justin Emeka (the show's Associate Director) Zora Howard, Carmine, Nicole Hegeman, and one of the producers, Audible's Preston Copley.

Visionary Dan Katz (Founder and Executive Chairman of Audible) writes in the exquisite program...

"I'm excited to welcome you to this. Tonight you will experience Common's meditation on the complexities of fatherlessness, art, masculinity and black consciousness....This performance is the latest in a series of pieces written and performed to the intimate Audible aesthetic that millions around the world enjoy everyday.... A heartfelt thanks..."

In BLUEBIRD MEMORIES, Common, speaking to his Father took us on a creative rollercoaster of disappointment, forgiveness, growth, healing, hope, personal relationships and Love.

No one in the audience was prepared for the integrity and truth in this theatrical and musical performance. We sat with baited breath, clapped, cried, danced in our seats and even sang. The lighting and music was phenomenal!

Louise Robinson said "Common spoke from his heart. He connected us to this piece by allowing us to revisit his relationship with his mostly absent father who is now with the ancestors, but whom he loved dearly. Everyone in the audience was enthralled by his storytelling as it touched on the humanness of our shared pain, regrets and Joy."

Carol Maillard said "Just Amazing and Profound." And on a lighter note she jokingly said to Common "What's Your Name? He answered Rashid. And we all laughed!

Later Whoopi Goldberg (who said she loved the show too) asked us had we met Common. Carol, Louise and I said Yes in unison and laughed again!

If you are able, please go see Common's BLUEBIRD MEMORIES at Minetta Lane. Also plan to get it on Audible. It's a Precious Gem of Artistry!

Oh What a Beautiful Inspiring Evening of Hope and Healing!

Live & Love...

Always, Melony 💜

aka Miss Mellie Rainbow 🎊

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Rev.Melony McGant aka Miss Mellie Rainbow

Melony McGant, poet, storyteller, humanist and world lover of children lives on HOPE; works to breathe in love, and exhales fear (false expectations appearing real). She says "Perhaps our current challenges are wake-up calls for our collective awakening to truth." And she believes that the truth is, there is no need for our constant bickering, our disdain for eachother, for wars and killing, for world hunger, massive disease, for discrimination, subjugation, or oppression. She maintains that LOVE, even on a rainy day, is the answer to our dreams, our individual quests, and our future collective identity. "If we can learn to value our children, our elders, ourselves, and our Mother EarthHeart, then surely we have the power to impact society and to create a world filled with JOY."

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About Melony...

Rev. Melony McGant Bio

Rev. Melony McGant, aka Miss Mellie Rainbow loves to travel, explore cultures, connect with people, and dreams of a compassionate World with safe, loving communities, equal opportunity with justice and peace for the next seven generations (and beyond) of All the Earth's children.

She truly believes that "peace is possible through compassion, cooperation, courage, creativity, deep listening, faith, forgiveness, good purpose, healing, hope, humility, integrity, joy, kindness, mercy, patience, respect, understanding and the gift of Love!", and uses social media platforms to inspire others.

She is a storyteller, thought-leader, poet, & compassionate communications professional with more than 30 years’ experience in assisting both people and organizations discover and promote their professional or personal life missions. From business and not for profit CEO's to job seekers, elders, parents and children; through deep listening, Melony has quietly impacted, coached or supported thousands of people on their life journeys.

Currently a resident of New York City, Melony has worked as a marketing professional, owned her own full-service marketing firm and was assistant to cultural icon, choreographer and Oprah Legend, Miss Katherine Dunham. She worked for many years as a Labor Services Representative for New York State Department of Labor where she was able to hone her skills as a career/life coach and personal empowerment workshop facilitator; has a BA in Communications from Marshall University, is a Certified Level One Trainer in Kingian Nonviolence (University of Rhode Island Summer Institute), and is a Vietnam era war veteran (United States Navy).

An avid reader, in 2018 she appeared in two episodes of the Great American Read, an eight-episode national television show on PBS that "explored the many ways in which novels affect, reflect and connect us all."

An ordained Interfaith Minister, and author of the coming of age novel "Sunshine & Olivier: A Parable of Love" (IUniverse), which will be reissued for the 20th anniversary of its publication in the fall of 2019, Melony is also the primary author of "The Healing Adagio: A Love Symphony In Five Parts" and the journal, empowerment workbook "Seeker Dreamer: Amazing, Brilliant, Compassionate YOU!" (both published by Authorhouse). Her books are available on Amazon.

Rev. Melony McGant's writing is also featured in several other books, magazines and newspapers including the first edition of The Poetry Cafe (Art for Awareness), W & Art (an international women's premium art talk magazine), African Voices Magazine, MBE/WBE Magazine, Our Time Press, and the Chicago Citizen. Early in her career she was a columnist for The New Pittsburgh Courier.

Her writing also appears in GLORY: A Life Among Legends by Dr. Glory Van Scott (Water Street Press), "Passing It On: Moving Stories of Activists 1960 to 2000" by Bev Jenai-Myers (Archway Publishing), "Go Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to Michelle Obama" (SUNY Press), "The Book of Hope" and "The World Book of Healing" (both by Beyond Borders Press).

While living in Pittsburgh, PA, Melony served on the boards of Big Brothers and Sisters and the Pittsburgh Branch NAACP. An avid supporter of the Andrew Goodman Foundation VOTE EVERYWHERE program, she strongly believes in embracing the values of good citizenship.

She has received the New Mexico Not Even One Service Award, the 911 Red Cross Volunteer Award in NYC, the Pittsburgh City Council Women's Recognition Award, and the Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund Award for Service (MBELDEF).

To contact Rev. Melony McGant, email: melonymcgant@yahoo.com

Breathe Love--- Even on a Rainy Day

Saturday, January 11, 2020

COMMON: BLUEBIRD MEMORIES: A Journey Through Lyrics and Life! Audible at Minetta Lane Theater, NYC January 10-12, 2020

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