FINDING HOME

A reflection on global journeys, shared humanity, and the echoes of ancestral memory, telling stories of migration, exile, and transformation.

Billboard Chart-topping pianist and cultural visionary Lara Downes presents FINDING HOME, a reflection on global journeys, shared humanity, and the echoes of ancestral memory, telling stories of migration, exile, and transformation.

Downes captures the soundtrack of our history - the music that has brought light in our darkness and comfort in our times of sorrow, our anthems of revolution and resistance, and the songs that bring persistent hope, in every era, for the promise of brighter days to come. This music traces our roots and our journeys, connects us at our crossroads and centers us on common ground across borders, oceans, language and 

THE MUSIC

Michael Sahl: Tango from the Exiles' Cafe

Kurt Weill: Lost in the Stars

Kian Ravaei: Variations on This Land Is Your Land

H.T. Burleigh: From the Southland

Florence Price: Clouds

Huang Ruo: Diffluent

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: I Naviganti

Miguel del Aguila: Music in a Bottle

Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water

Caleb Burhans: In Time of Desperation

Oscar Peterson: Hymn to Freedom

Ricky Ian Gordon: Finding Home