a collage of performing artists featuring a poet and musicians from the UCLA Global Jazz Studies Department and the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz including Camille Kerani, tenor saxophone; Miles Lennox, piano; Destiny Diggs, bass; Jamiah Lincoln, poet; and Ebs Daramola, drums
Free public programs

Gather Together in My Name

Royce Hall
Camille Kerani, tenor saxophone
Miles Lennox, piano
Destiny Diggs, bass
Jamiah Lincoln, poet
Ebs Daramola, drums
Join us on Saturday, May 8 at 6:30 pm for Gather Together in My Name — a musical installation presented by Student Committee for the Arts (SCA) and featuring a poet and musicians from the UCLA Global Jazz Studies Department and the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. Titled after the Maya Angelou book of the same name, this installation explores the intersection between Blackness, womanhood and creativity. 
 
Opening with a quartet featuring tenor saxophonist Camille Kerani (4th year Global Jazz Studies); bassist Destiny Diggs (2nd year Masters, Herbie Hancock Institute); pianist Miles Lennox (2nd year Masters, Herbie Hancock Institute) and on drums Ebs Daramola (2nd year Masters, Herbie Hancock Institute). For the second half, the quartet will be stripped down to a bass and saxophone, featuring poet Jamiah Lincoln.
 
“We are so often represented by other people’s narratives — they swirl around us, causing us to lose sight of our own,” said saxophonist Camille Kerani. “Through poetry and improvisation, we hold space for self-expression and communal healing. Today, we will tell our own story, in the way we want it to be told.”
 
Gather Together in My Name is a free event open to all, no tickets needed. Make it a full evening of inspiration by staying for the 8 pm performance by Grammy Award–winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant on the iconic Royce Hall stage. Tickets for the concert are on sale now — don’t miss it!
 

Pre-show Director: Nicole Tacher Lois 
Nicole Tacher Lois is a fourth-year UCLA student studying Psychology and Public Affairs. Having been involved with the Student Committee for the Arts (SCA) since her freshman year, her work focuses on art as a form of protest and contestment, honoring voices history has overlooked. As part of SCA’s collaboration with UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), she helps lead student-driven pre-show programs that build community around the artists CAP UCLA presents. Following her curation for Samora Pinderhughes’ Healing Project pre-show that centered student voices inspired by Pinderhughes’ work on mass incarceration and collective healing, she now spotlights the legacy of women in jazz, using Cécile McLorin Salvant’s artistry and student performances to challenge erasure and celebrate resistance through musical storytelling.  

Camille Kerani is a saxophonist, composer, and bandleader from Oakland, California. Her work focuses on both tangible and metaphysical themes, drawing inspiration from cosmology, community-led activism, and DIY spaces. Not limited by genre, Camille plays with a variety of artists, including South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini, Bay Area rappers Larry June and LaRussell, and San Diego sweet soul group Thee Sacred Souls, who she is touring with currently. As a senior in the Global Jazz Studies department, Camille is a UCLA Regents scholar, a Hugh Masekela fellowship recipient, and a 2025 San Jose Jazz grantee. 

 

 

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