The TOaG Quartet is an organization of musicians, producers, & educators, creating original music & collaborative experiences, to elevate & inspire community.  We are rooted in tradition, and harkening to the future.

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TOaG Releases Third Live Album: 
THE SEED AND SPEAR

After sharing this beautiful music across the country on our Spring tour, we are so excited to bring the new album to you in full form. Big shout out to the whole team behind the TOaG Family!

Musical Director: Benjamin Lee
Co-Director: Eli Maliwan
Album: The Seed and Spear
Produced by: Benjamin Lee
Mixed and Mastered by: Neil Godbole at @airshiplaboratories , Richmond, CA
Art in Graphic: James Shields, @creativeshields
Brand Graphics: Johnny Jones, COMA

Musicians:
Ricky Carter - Drums
DV Wright - Guitar, Live Effects
Eli Maliwan - Saxophone
Benjamin Lee - Upright Bass

All rights reserved ©2024 Benjamin Lee ASCAP

THE SEED AND SPEAR TOUR 2024:
From March 13th to May 18th 2024, The TOaG Quartet is on the road celebrating the release of our newest live record “The Seed and Spear!”  For 9 weeks and 8000 miles, we will be community building across the USA and Canada through a combination of public performances, private performances, recording sessions, and educational clinics. 

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Our Destiny is Connected

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The first single off of our new album "The Seed and Spear," which drops this spring!

The TOaG Quartet is an organization of musicians, producers, & educators, creating original music & collaborative experiences, to elevate & inspire community.

Charting a course of all original music that spans dirge like ballads to hard hitting
The first single off of our new album "The Seed and Spear," which drops this spring!

The TOaG Quartet is an organization of musicians, producers, & educators, creating original music & collaborative experiences, to elevate & inspire community.

Charting a course of all original music that spans dirge like ballads to hard hitting grooves, cinematic soundscapes to sizzling up tempo swingers - all stitched together with samples and storytelling - TOaG’s sound is rooted in tradition, and harkens to the future. Sparking the mind with truth, and moving the spirit with groove, our organization is the product of our collective - which is one part working band and one part teaching ensemble.

As of March 13th 2024, The TOaG Quartet is on the road celebrating the upcoming release of our newest live record “The Seed and Spear!” For the following 9 weeks and 8000 miles, we will be community building across the USA and Canada through a combination of public performances, private performances, recording sessions, and educational clinics.

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The Watermelon Flag Flies Forever

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"The Watermelon Flag Flies Forever"
We are proud to announce the release of our second single off “The Seed and Spear”.

Beautiful peoples, there can be no redemption for our complicity as Americans - directly or indirectly - in the ongoing genocide being committed against our Palestinian family. Our tax dollars are being used to destroy life, and
"The Watermelon Flag Flies Forever"
We are proud to announce the release of our second single off “The Seed and Spear”.

Beautiful peoples, there can be no redemption for our complicity as Americans - directly or indirectly - in the ongoing genocide being committed against our Palestinian family. Our tax dollars are being used to destroy life, and deny the lived realities of the communities that have been harmed - an all too familiar story.

Amidst our sorrow we can commit to transformation. We have the power to transform our understanding of our own history, which teaches us exactly why we are witnessing such horrors. Our elected leaders - and far too many of us - have either ignored, or been denied, the truths that have been yelled from rooftops, rallies, and records for our entire lives, plainly explaining the interconnectedness in the fights for liberation at home and abroad.

As musicians and educators, we have a critical role to play in what narratives take root in our collective future. Together with artists across the world, we understand that politics moves last, and is made up of humans - humans that had teachers.

“The Watermelon Flag Flies Forever” is a sonic story, drifting through the winds, accompanying us on the road to a future without apartheid!

Our small offering joins the millions of other voices calling for an end to the genocide, a dismantling of our role in it, and a commitment to support our community leaders who can and will guide us to the restoration and justice that has been denied for far too long.

None of us are free until we are all free!
Free Palestine! Free Palestine! Free Palestine!

#freepalestine #stopthegenocide #thewatermelonflagfliesforever #newmusicrelease #thetoagquartet #theseedandspeer
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