About Sing Out For Freedom
About the Event
No Matter What … We Sing Out for Freedom is the 2024 theme of the NYCLU and ACLU’s annual concert and community event. Taking place just one week before Election Day, we’ll rally for the fights ahead, no matter what happens at the ballot box. We’ll also make a final — spectacular — push to vote YES on Prop 1, enshrining abortion rights and other crucial freedoms in New York’s Constitution.
For 22 years, this concert has celebrated the achievements of the NYCLU and ACLU with song and speech from big stars and up-and-coming artists from Broadway and beyond. More details to come.
About the NYCLU
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is one of the nation’s foremost defenders of civil liberties and civil rights. Founded in 1951 as the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), we are a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization with offices across the state and more almost 150,000 supporters.
2023 Host Amber Ruffin
Amber Ruffin is a writer, executive producer, and host of the Emmy and WGA Award nominated series “The Amber Ruffin Show” on Peacock. She is also an Emmy and WGA Award nominated writer and performer for NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” Ruffin was the first African American female to write for a late-night network talk show in the U.S. She has written and performed on shows like “Detroiters,” “A Black Lady Sketch Show” and “Drunk History.” Ruffin has written for the Emmys, Golden Globes and Tonys. She was previously a performer at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, the iO Theater and the Second City in Chicago. Ruffin is a New York Timesbestselling author, along with her sister Lacey Lamar, of “You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories of Racism.” She co-wrote the most Tony nominated musical of 2022, “Some Like it Hot.” Ruffin is now writing a revival of “The Wiz” which tours America beginning fall of 2023 and lands on Broadway spring of 2024.
Peppermint
Our 2023 Michael Friedman Freedom Award Recipient
A longtime key figure in queer nightlife, actress & singer Peppermint regularly performs to sold-out crowds around the world. She has released six albums; Hardcore Glamour, Servin’ It Up, Sugar & Spiked, Black Pepper, A Girl Like Me: Letters To My Lovers and Moment of Weakness: Letters To My Lovers available on all streaming platforms:
Peppermint, who is the ACLU’s first-ever Artist Ambassador for Trans Justice, has raised six-figure sums for prominent LGBT rights groups, partnered with MAC Cosmetics’ “M.A.C. AIDS Fund” and is involved in the HIV Vaccine trials network. She partnered with RuPaul Drag Race Winner Sasha Velour for a college speaking tour that focused on the challenges faced by transgender and non-binary people in today’s political climate among various other topics. Peppermint takes every available opportunity to speak at universities and to various communities on the issues.
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Performers & Special Guests
Alexis Michelle | Cheyenne Jackson | Hayley Kiyoko | Liana Stampur | Michelle Buteau | Pia Toscano | Redhawk Native American Arts Council | Taylor Iman Jones | VINCINT
The Artist Ambassador Choir
Music Directed by Sheela Ramesh | Featuring Taylor Iman Jones | Andrea Prestinario, Ari Afsar, Ari Conte, Artemis Montague, Cindy Tsai, Emily Xu Hall, Harrow Sansom Choi, Jax Jackson, Jenna Bainbridge, Jodi Nicole, Lauren Molina, Liana Stampur, Nicholas Caycedo, Patrick B. Phillips, Princess Victome, Rissa Lavilla and Shaina Taub
Sponsors
Benefactor
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Guardian
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Latham & Watkins LLP
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP
DKC/O&M Co.
Champion
Alera Group
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
SEIU 1199
Producers Circle
Co-producer
Barbara Whitman
Richenthal Foundation
Shirley and Al Evenitsky Fund for Social Justice
Become an individual or corporate sponsor. For information about sponsorship, click here or contact contributions@nyclu.org.
