HipStory Presents Rhythm and Roots featuring Cinamon and Samantha Farrell
August 19 @ 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Join HipStory for their bi-weekly series, “Rhythm and Roots,” a live music and dance event that celebrates the deep-rooted traditions of Black music and movement. Rhythm & Roots will feature a rotating lineup of live bands, dance performances, and open jam sessions where musicians and dancers can exchange rhythms and movement.
Artist Bios
Cinamon
I am a Rhythmic Scholar—an artist who collapses the distance between the ivory tower and the pavement. My work bridges abstract theory and the lived realities of urban youth, transforming music into both methodology and medicine. By analyzing my art as data and my life as research, I assert that the mental health counseling happening in recording studios is as rigorous as any found in a clinic.
I create space in Higher Education where lived experience is honored as scholarship, and where students from neighborhoods like the ones that raised me can see that an artist’s spirit can lead a classroom without losing its tempo.
My method is my life.
Samantha Farrell
Samantha Farrell is a Boston-based musician and vocalist whose sound is a gorgeously moody fusion of jazz, alt R&B and pop. Once described as “the best singer-songwriter you’ve never heard of,” by NBC Los Angeles, Farrell has always been understated in her approach to her music career – but, those who are in the know, have been quietly dazzled with her unique voice, rhythmic subtleties and tonal nuance for years.
Samantha started her career in Los Angeles where she released her first album “Spiritus.” In 2008, she caught the ear of LeRoi Moore, the saxophonist of the Dave Matthews Band, who was in the midst of producing and developing her next album in Charlottesville, VA when he suddenly passed away, and in October 2009, “Luminous” was independently released. Through word of mouth alone, the album charted No. 7 on the national pop iTunes charts. She has since followed that up with two EPs, “In Between Stories” (2010) and “Softly Swooning World” (2013), with her latest album, “September Sun” (2016) being voted as one of WUMB radio’s Top 10 albums of 2016.
Her music has been featured on various major network television shows such as NBC’s “Shark,” CW’s “Ringer,” “Privileged,” “Nikita,” “One Tree Hill” & “The Tomorrow People.”
Farrell will be releasing her fourth full length album in the Fall of 2026, produced by Will Dailey.
