Drop into Dream Feed, the latest electro-acoustic vocal work from two-time Grammy Award-winning theatrical family band The HawtPlates. Can we remember our own dreams? Can we share the dreams we have in common? Can we awaken ourselves to the origin of our aspirations? In this shared dream sequence and live concept album, The HawtPlates metabolize the surreal allure of the active mind within a slumbering body through trip-like lullabies and bold reverie. A 2023 HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) commission with additional co-commissioning support by Under the Radar, this psychedelic live concept album makes its world premiere at the 2026 Under the Radar Festival.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

The HawtPlates co-create conceptual live works. The performance trio cultivates a unique sound specific to their family by breaking down folk and vernacular musical forms and reconstituting them into sound tonics and “one pots” to address the trauma of being a working-class citizen in the modern world. Their projects include Waterboy and the Mighty World (The Public Theater), the song cycle House or Home: 690 Wishes (The Shed), and the visual EP Songs for Making It Through Alive. Together and individually, these artists have worked at National Black Theatre, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, Symphony Space, The Bushwick Starr, Perelman Performing Arts Center, and Park Avenue Armory. The HawtPlates have inspired work by Meshell Ndegeocello, Abigail DeVille, Kaneza Schaal, and Charlotte Brathwaite, and collaborated with Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Helga Davis, Cauleen Smith, Steffani Jemison, Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray and the D.R.E.A.M. Ring, and Queen Esther and the Harlem Gospel Singers.

FUNDING + SUPPORT

Produced by HERE Arts Center, originally commissioned and developed through the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP), with co-commissioning support from Under the Radar.

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