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In January and February of 2025, Arts in Medicine musicians gathered with members of the Gainesville and North Florida community for a weekly workshop series. The community members, having identified as being affected by Sickle Cell Disease, joined the workshop series to learn songwriting and music production skills, as well as to gather together in a community that validated their lived experiences.
The product of these workshops is an 8-song original album written solely by the group of attendees. Titled “Warrior’s Path”, the album explores the immense depths and unexpected joys of living with sickle cell.
The group collaborated to combine musicmaking skills with the perspectives of those directly or indirectly affected by sickle cell and recorded their finished songs at Pulp Arts Recording Studio in Gainesville, FL.
Mixing and Master credit: whodidit? (F. Raphael Llana)