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Save the Date: Redemption Songs Concert

A Black man wearing a green shirt and pants against a blue background sits with a notebook in his hand. Behind him, from left to right, a man in orange wears blue headphones covers his face, a woman with blonde hair sings, and a person in olive green plays the violin. There is also a gray Walkman with orange headphones on the left and an orange keyboard on the right.
The Redemption Songs concert is a live music and storytelling event, bringing together The Marshall Project’s award-winning journalism on American prisons and Musicambia’s pioneering efforts to foster music behind bars.
10.28.2026
7:30 p.m. EDT
Merkin Hall
129 W 67th St, New York, NY 10023 | New York City

Additional details and ticket information will be shared with ticket purchase links in early September.

Drawing on journalist Maurice Chammah’s series on the epic story of music in American prisons, this one-night event combines a live rendition of Musicambia’s songbook, along with storytelling, photography and film, to explore how genres from blues to soul to rap have offered paths to rehabilitation, resistance and hope for people behind bars, from the Jim Crow South to ICE detention centers today.

Chammah will be joined by Lawrence Bartley, the publisher of_ The Marshall Project Inside_, and the Cambia Collective, an ensemble of teachers and alumni of Musicambia, which offers lessons in instruments and composition across genres to people at Sing Sing Correctional Facility and other prisons across the country. Join us for an unforgettable evening about justice, humanity and the power of music.