COVERED: A Live R&B Experience took place in Seattle’s very own Columbia City at Black & Tan Hall in 2024. Converge Media’s Deaunte Damper attended the event where he caught up with Teme Wokoma, owner of Sankofa Theater and Spirit of Ire Productions.

“I spoke earlier in the event that Black art is not always seen as fine art, so we’re not the first to be booked at Seattle Art Museum or any of these more upper echelon finer art spaces,” said Wakoma. “It was important to ground ourselves in who we are, Black and Tan has been working relentlessly to create a space that represents what we do and who we are as a BIPOC community.”

Filled with energy, positivity, and creativity, Jacoby Sampson who attended the event described it as “being apart of history, while standing in history, bringing the city together for a very intimate experience and breaking ground as being black artists.”

The night was met with countless songs from the 90’s and 2000’s being sung on stage, displaying how they were able to mix and master songs that the audience and the majority of the world know and love.

COVERED was a moment that captured what happens when the Black community comes together to display the levels of talent that are all within one another to help shed more light on one another.