The Kate

If you hear any noise It's just me and the boys Hit me, you gotta hit the band Growing up it was pretty loud. It was loud because my dad being a musician, percussion player he would practice around the house every single day. And on the weekends it was straight partying and sometimes rehearsal with his bands. What are the new inspirations that can knock it out He would bring them to the house. They would just come and play. So like Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Carlos Santana later on in the years would just come to the house and just jam. I was five years old and I was raped by a babysitter. That was pretty devastating, as being five years old, like going from playing with my dad, going to kindergarten, and then, babysitter, he raped me. He was in his teens. I felt like my childhood was taken away. I just didn't understand. I was told to do this and do this. It took me a long time to talk about it. My friend Lynn who's singing with us tonight, we became friends and at one point she said to me, "You need to talk about it, you know, because it "would help you as part of your healing." It was so difficult and I probably cried for like three days. You can't live your fullest life stuck in shame and fear, filth, feeling like, you know, it's your fault. And that's when I said, "I don't want to be like this anymore. "I don't want to be angry." We want to plant this seed in your life with this four letter word, and that word is LOVE. When I played with my dad at 15, that one show that I played with him, that changed everything that I could do. I saw myself playing, like I felt like I left my body and I was looking down, watching myself play. I went in the zone in a place that I felt that it's the closest that I could get to God on earth. I know that that's purpose. That's my purpose, that's my gift, and I know that if that goes away then I'm done, and I hope it never does. (cheering and applause)

MALE VOICE

Our National Anthem. (Scratchy rendition of "Star Spangled Banner" plays) (Music changes to contemporary beat) Sheila E.! Sheila E.! Sheila E.! Sheila E.! Sheila E.! Sheila E.! Sheila E.! Sheila E.! O say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming And the rocket's red glare The bombs bursting in air Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

I have a dream. My four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! Let freedom Ring! And when it happens, we'll be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, Free at last, "Great God a-mighty, We are free at last."

BARACK OBAMA

The true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth but from the enduring power of our ideals-democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.

HARRY TRUMAN

There's more to be lifted up, more cities to be built, and there's a world to be helped.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper." But somewhere I read of a freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Now, somewhere I read that the greatness of America, is the right to protest for right. Got to be free So just as I say we aren't going to let any dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren't gonna let any injunction turn us around.

BARACK OBAMA

We reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope; and where we are met with cynicism and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people- "Yes we can!" Thank you! God bless you! And may God bless the United States of America.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. (applause) So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord! (Martin Luther King Jr speech fades out) (audience applause) So wide you can't get around it So low you can't get under it So high you can't get over it Oh you can't get over it This is a chance, this is a chance to dance your way Out of my constrictions Here's a chance to dance your way out of my constriction Gonna be groovin' up and down Hang-up alley way With the groove our only guide we could all be moved Ready or not here we come Gettin' down on the one which we believe in One nation (come on, come on) under a groove (come on) Gettin' down just for the funk of it one nation we're on the move nothing can stop us now Come on. heeeeeeee Come on. Slap your hands. Here we go. Givin' you more of what you're funkin' for Feet don't fail me now Do you promise the funk the whole funk, nothin' but the funk Come on! Hey! Ready or not here we come Getting' down on the one which we believe in One nation under a groove Get down just for the funk of it One nation and we're on the move Nothing can stop us now One, one. One nation under a groove Seriously yeah. Gettin' down just for the funk of it One nation and we're on the groove Nothing can stop us now Oh oh oh oh Doh doh-di-oh doh Doh di-oh doh Doh-di-oh-doh Doh doh-di-oh doh Doh-di-oh-doh Doh-di-oh-doh Doh doh-di-oh doh Doh di-oh doh Doh-di-oh-doh Doh doh-di-oh doh Doh di-oh doh Doh-di-oh-doh (music tempo change) Come on!

MALE VOICE

Well, all right Starchild here. Citizens of the Universe. Recording Angels. Whoo! We have returned to claim the Pyramids. Come on! Partying on the Mothership. I am the Mothership Connection. Gettin' down in 3-D. Light year groovin'. Come on! If you hear any noise, it ain't nobody but me and the boys, Sheila E. and the girls. Up the top, come on! Come on! There you go! Put em up. Put em up. Put your hands in the air. If you hear any noise it's just me and the boys Hit me Come on. You gotta hit the band We love to funk you funkers down. If you hear any noise it's just me and the boys Come on! You gotta hit the band Come on! Hey! Whoo! Oh! Yeah, y'all gonna need some protection to listen at this here funk. Come on! If you hear any noise it's just me and the boys You gotta hit the band Here we go! (tempo change) Come on! Ah! What is this new exaltation that I can not explain What are the new inspirations that can not get out my brain How am I gonna sleep with this feelin' rushin' all through my veins Get up, come on, let's do something don't you wanna go get saved Whoo! Come on! Don't you wanna get saved? Come on, yeah Who's gonna save us when them spiders get next to you Spinning their sticky webs around what you do We gotta safeguard against the forked tongue and the treachery of the wicked one Get up, come on, let's do something Come Onnnnnnnnnn! Ain't it funky Come on, come on! Whoo! Look outside your window Tell me now what you see A comin' up that mountain For a new philosophy Every single color, every race and every creed Lookin' for that truth, y'all Go set somebody free Get on the boat Get on the boat, people Get on the boat now We got room for a hundred more Get on the boat (yeh) Get on the boat, people Get on the boat now We got room for a hundred more All across the nation People doing what they can To avoid a tribulation They need help throughout the land Everything in darkness Must come out into the light We must love each other Only way it's gonna be right Get on the boat Get on the boat, people Get on the boat now We got room for a hundred more Get on the boat (yeh) Get on the boat, people Get on the boat now We got room for a hundred more To avoid a tribulation They need help throughout the land Everything in darkness Must come out into the light We must love each other Only way it's gonna be right Get on the boat Get on the boat, people Get on the boat now We got room for a hundred more Get on the boat Get on the boat, people Get on the boat no-o-o-w We got room for a hundred more Come on! Come on! (tempo change) Come on, come on! Dig the puck A funky little thing called Holly Rock It might be a dance, it might be a song It might have you rockin', baby, all night Anybody want to Holly Rock Take a little bit, you just can't stop It's bad, good God Guaranteed to turn you out huh All you little brothas, gather 'round I'm gonna show you what the Holly Rock's about Holly Rock Holly Rock Holly Rock Holly Rock Sheila E.'s my name, Holly Rock's my game Funky as I wanna be Line up a hundred, I swear to God I'm rockin' 'till you just can't see Mass appeal, a little girl's smile I'll make you happy, baby, all the while 'Cause I'm bad, good God And if you got a big enough stick Come on over, baby, to Sheila's house Don't you wanna learn a new trick? Come on! Holly Rock Come on! Holly Rock Got that Holly Rock Holly Rock Come on now! Somebody say, Rock, Rock, Holly Rock Everybody wanna Holly Rock Do it like this. Rock, rock, Holly Rock Everybody wanna Holly Rock Yes! Come on! Rock, rock, Holly Rock Everybody wanna Holly Rock There you go! Rock, rock, Holly Rock Everybody wanna Holly Rock Rock, rock, Holly Rock Everybody wanna Holly Rock Rock, rock, Holly Rock Everybody wanna Holly Rock Woo! Woo! (cheering and applause) This next song we're gonna do is called Bailar. Do you know what that means? What? It means dance. They hand picked eight people. We need some men on the stage, hello! (applause) Alright, we're gonna have some fun. Here we go. So you all come up here. We're gonna dance. Here we go. I just wanna see you on the dance floor And I want all y'all to stand up, come on. If you're not gonna come up, stand up. Just move like, just clap your hands. There you go. I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor Get up. Stand up. There you go. I just wanna see you on the dance floor Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Now you sing this. Here we go. Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Yes. Money and status doesn't matter to me The kinda car you drive doesn't matter to me Uh. Your nationality doesn't matter to me The color of your skin doesn't matter to me Come on, come on! I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor Yeah. I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor (Bailar) Come dance with me (Bailar) Yeah! Come dance with me (Bailar) Yeah! Come dance with me (Bailar) Yeah! Come dance with me (Bailar) Get crazy (Bailar) Get loud Ah! Yeah! Get proud! Yeah! Yeah! (Bailar) Everybody sing Say, oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Yeah! Somebody sing! Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Here we go, here we go! Now we're gonna take it down, get it funky Do it like this, shake it up, make it bumping Pump it up, pump it up Raise your hands Pump it up, pump it up Raise your hands Don't anybody don't stop taking dancin' shakin' like a drum that plays it boom, boom faster I am the boom boom chitty boom master I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor Come on! I just wanna see you on the dance floor Right up here, come on! I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor (Bailar!) Come dance with me (Bailar!) Yeh! Come dance with me (Bailar!) Yeh, come dance with me (Bailar!) Yeh, come dance with me Get crazy! Get loud! Bailar Bailar Hey! Everybody sing. Sing oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Somebody sing! Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Come on! Come on! O-o-o-o-h watch out, watch out! Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Come on! Come on! Oh-oh-oh Somebody scream. Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Come on! Come on! (Bailar!) Come dance with me (Bailar!) Yeh, come dance with me (Bailar!) Yeh, come dance with me (Bailar!) Yeh, come dance with me (Bailar!) Get crazy (Bailar!) Get down, yeah, yeah (Bailar!) Get loud, yeah, yeah Come on! Come on! Everybody sing! Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Yeah! Everybody do the Twist! I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor Do the Twist! I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor I just wanna see you on the dance floor Here we go! Here we go! Somebody scream! (cheering and applause)

Sheila

Yes! Give it up for the Sheila E. dancers! All the way from Connecticut! (applause) Here's a song I co-wrote with an artist called Mano. His name is Mano Hanes. We hope that you enjoy. (applause) Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-dooooo (vocalization) (vocalization) (cheering) (cheering) (cheering) (cheering and applause)

SHEILA

Karen Carpenter was such an influence in my life as a musician, a drummer, an entertainer as well cause she did it all-singing, everything. Growing up, you never really saw women on, on television playing percussion. And one day we had the television on and this girl was playing drums. I loved that she could play drums but she also sang. So listen very carefully... They would arrange their songs, she wrote music-it's like everything that I wanted to be or want, you know, wanted to be back then, and I'm like, wow, I want to be like her. She's pretty cool. I met Prince at an Al Jarreau concert. I saw him and I went, "Oh my God, who is that? "That's him." I couldn't even breathe. And we both looked at each other and he just stared at me and I stared at him and I'm like, "I have to go say hi to him." The second time we met was at his concert. So I wanted to go see him, and I see this guy with long straight hair just flipping his hair like crazy, has on a g-string with long leg warmers and boots, and I'm like, that can't be the same guy I saw at the Al Jarreau concert. Like really! Ain't it funky! I waited until he went backstage. So I pulled the curtain over, so I just kinda peeked through cause I didn't want to walk in. I peeked through, and he was in the mirror, combing his hair. He saw me in the mirror and he looked like this and he turned around really quickly, and I said, "Hi, I just wanted to meet you. My name is..." and I couldn't even get my name out, and he says, "I already know who you are. "I've been following your career. "I love you. "And me and the bass player, we're, we don't "know who's gonna marry you first." Like all in the same breath! Like bam bam bam bam. Go set somebody free Him watching me and my family play was mind boggling to him. He's like, "I don't even know how you guys are doing what you're doing." Latin jazz music he had never heard before. I valued our friendship more so than being with him and I didn't want to mess that up. And I tried to say no as long as I could, and we couldn't do it, so it was inevitable to be together. Must come out into the light It was always about music. It's, it's a lifestyle. What we wanted to do is continue to create. If that gift that we've been given is to create then you kind of just don't want to stop. I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with the Belle of St. Mark Come on, clap your hands! It tears me apart whenever I hear him cry, yeah Come on! I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with the Belle of St. Mark And if he doesn't love me I think I'll probably die Ow! The Belle of St. Mark was a frail but passionate creature Ebony hair and eyes deep blue-green The belle of St. Mark wore clothes that belonged to his father, mother Even though he was only a mere seventeen Come on! I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with the Belle of St. Mark Come on, clap your hands. It tears me apart whenever I hear him cry Do the jerk, come on. I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with the Belle of St. Mark If he doesn't love me I think I'll probably die The Belle of St. Mark he don't talk to strangers He's so mysterious His erotic persuasion provokes me like no other man The fire I have for him is undoubtedly serious yeah yeah (Oh-oh-oh!) (Oh!) Oh-oh-oh, yea! I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with the Belle of St. Mark Come on! Woo! It tears me apart whenever I hear him cry I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with the Belle of St. Mark And if he doesn't love me I think I'll probably die Ow! Ow! Owwwww! Come Onnnnnnnnn! (cheering and applause) The moon up above It shines on upon our skin Whispering words that scream of outrageous sin We all want the stuff that's found in our wildest dreams It gets kinda rough in the back of our limousine Y'all ready to sing? Come on! If that's what we are, we all want a love bizarre If that's what we are, we all want a love bizarre Yeaaaaaa! A strawberry mind, a body that's built for two A kiss on the spine and do things we never do Swallow the pride and joy of the ivory tower We'll dance on the roof, make love on a bed of flowers Come on! A-a-ow! If that's what we are, we all want a love bizarre Oh-oh-oh If that's what we are, we all want a love bizarre Hey, hey, hey, hey. If that's what we are, we all want a love bizarre Hey, ey yeh If that's what we are, we all want a love bizarre Come on, come on! Band, on the two! Oh, it's like that. Oh. (cheering and applause) I love being amongst people. You are so warm and kind, and I can feel it. We feel it from the stage, we really do. So thank you so much. (applause) He's a small town man in a big, big world Handsome like a King, with eyes of pearls An angel from heaven (Somehow I lost him in the crowd) He's the one for me, gave up everything Just to find that man, tell me if you can Where he might be, cause I'm runnin' out of places You are my baby Cuz everybody dreams of being a rock star I don't care at all, my music, that's all You can have the money and the paparazzi Somebody help me find my honey I'm runnin' in circles, got me goin' crazy Anybody know, he loves me, maybe Where is my baby Thought I saw your face in a crowd I called you but you didn't turn around I can see it's a game we will play (I get discouraged that you'll never be found) He's the one for me, gave up everything I wanna be with you, will you say I do I'll be searching but I'm runnin' out of places You are my baby Cuz everybody dreams of being a rock star I don't care at all, my music, that's all You can keep the money and the paparazzi Somebody help me (somebody help me). I'm runnin' in circles, got me goin' crazy Got me going crazy ah ah Where is my baby Cuz everybody dreams to being a rock star I don't care at all, my music that's all You can keep the money and the paparazzi Somebody help me try to find my baby I'm runnin' in circles, got me goin' crazy Anybody know, he loves me, maybe Where is my baby You're the one for me You have everything (you have everything) I'll be searching Oh tell me have you heard I'm running out of places You are my baby Ow! Cuz everybody dreams of being a rock star Cuz everybody dreams of being a rock star Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh (cheering and applause) Are you havin' fun? (cheers) Are you havin' fun? (cheers) Awesome! We're gonna keep the party goin'. I don't even know why you sat down. Water! Just kidding. Okay, here we go. Woo! Ha, ha! Free! Heh heh heh Heh heh heh Heh heh heh Aristocrats on a mountain climb Making money, losing time Communism is just a word If the government turned over Be the only word that's heard America, America God shed his grace on thee America, America Keep your children free Little sister makin' minimum wage Livin' in a one-room jungle-monkey cage Can't get over, she's almost dead She may not be in the black But she's happy she ain't in the red America, America God shed his grace on thee America, America Keep your children free Come on. Freedom Love Joy Come on! Free! Hey, look me over Tell me do you like what you see Hey, I ain't got no money But honey, I'm rich on personality Hey, check it all out Better look now, just might be too late (just might be too late) My lucks going to change tonight Gonna lead a better life Take a picture sweetie, I ain't got time to waste Oh, baby I'm a star Ooh. Might not know it now Baby but I are, I'm a star Come on! Baby! (Baby!) Baby! (Baby!) Baby! (Baby!) Come on We are the star Give me some horn! Come on! We are the star I'm not done! Is there a party over here Connecticut, over here? What? Come on, up there! Is there a party over here? Come on! Somebody scream! (music change) She wears a long fur coat of mink Even in the summer time Everybody knows from the coy little wink The girl's got a lot on her mind She's got big thoughts, big dreams And a big brown Mercedes sedan What I think this girl She really wants, to be in love with a man She wants to lead the glamorous life She don't need a man's touch She wants to lead... Come on, Connecticut, sing! Without love it ain't much Ah, yeah! They made haste in the brown sedan Drove to 55 Secret Street They made love and by the seventh wave She knew she had a problem She thought real love is real scary Money only pays the rent Love is forever, that's all your life Love is heaven sent, Come on! Glamorous, lead the glamorous life She don't need a man's touch She wants to lead the glamorous life Without love it ain't much, it ain't much Lead the glamorous life She don't need a man's touch She wants to lead the glamorous life Without love...Come on! Eddieeeeeee! (cheering and applause) Thank you, we love you, God bless you! (cheering and applause) (cheering and applause) Eddie M. on saxophone. Joel Behrman on trumpet. Wes McVicker on drums. Raymond McKinley on bass. Mychael Gabriel on guitar. Miss Lynn Mabry on vocals. Miss Rebecca Jade on vocals. Mr. Bertron Curtis on keys. And thank you all so very much. Thank you to our sound, Harry, Damien. God bless y'all. Thank you! (cheering and applause) Funding for this program was provided by Whelen Engineering Company. Whelen is a proud sponsor of The Kate and wishes to voice its ongoing support for Connecticut Public Television, the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.