Live

Part gig. Part theater. Part party.

Common People’s work is most alive in rooms where songs can be heard, felt, and shared together.

A Common People show is a concert with theater in its bones and a party in the room.

Live performance is not a promotional exercise. It is where the songs do their deepest work — gathering people, carrying story, making space for joy, grief, movement, memory, and release.

A well-placed song can change the atmosphere in two minutes.

The hope is simple: to comfort the disheartened and embolden the courageous.

Songs that carry weight without losing the party.

UPCOMING

June 19, 2026
Nashville Juneteenth Celebration
National Museum of African American Music–sponsored stage
Nashville, TN

WHERE WE HAVE PERFORMED

Common People has performed in festivals, museums, universities, civic gatherings, justice spaces, churches, and cultural institutions across the country, including:

— The King Center’s Beloved Community Awards — Atlanta
— The Carter Center’s Human Rights Defenders Forum — Atlanta
— Nashville’s Juneteenth celebration — NMAAM-sponsored stage
— The International Black Theatre Festival — Winston-Salem
— 55th anniversary of Dr. King’s anti-war speech — Riverside Church, Harlem
— Festival of Nations — St. Louis
— Kehinde Wiley’s An Archaeology of Silence Exhibition — de Young Museum, San Francisco
— Rush Hour — a Black / Asian Music Festival, Peters Street Station, Atlanta
— Four-part lecture series — University of Pennsylvania
— The Children’s Defense Fund’s annual camp — Alex Haley Farm
— Multi-city tour with Live Free USA

BRING COMMON PEOPLE TO YOUR TOWN

Common People can appear in different formats depending on the setting: intimate, stripped down, full-band, festival, theatrical, civic, museum, university, or movement-centered.

For live bookings, cultural programming, festivals, universities, museums, conferences, justice gatherings, and special events: hello@commonpeople.cc