Guitar, Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

Chic has been a featured performer in the U.S., France, and other parts of Europe, including the Montreux, Paleo, and Bern Jazz Festivals, and the United Nations Human Rights Center in Geneva. Chic composed the music and starred in the off-Broadway hit show Spunk, adapted by George C. Wolfe. He was a contributing author, performer, and musical arranger for the Denver Center Theatre Company’s It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. He composed the score and was the featured performer in the Cleveland Playhouse’s world premiere of Touch the Names—Letters to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He was the Arranger, Musical Director, and Composer for the McCarter and Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of Polk County, where he also won the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Musical Direction. Chic was Professor Slick in Pullman Porter Blues at the Seattle Rep, Arena Stage in DC, and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. He starred in Low Down Dirty Blues at the Milwaukee Rep, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and the Arizona Theater Company and has appeared in the films Triple Bogey and Hangin’ with the Home Boys.

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