Aloe Blacc, featuring The String Queens at Monticello
Date Uploaded
February 3, 2019
Rights
ESPN
Narrative
The song begins with a reading of the last verse of Maya Angelou's “Still I Rise.” The video, filmed at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, begins with a close shot of Aloe Blacc, that segues into a group of five children, beautifully adorned, who emerge from a building and run across the grounds of Monticello, giggling. The String Queens, dressed in white, gently seated on a powder blue settee stationed in front of Monticello, play. A small choir, dressed in red, joins Aloe Blacc as he moves through the space--between main house and slave dwellings. Only the first verse is performed in this original arrangement.