With support from the California Arts Council, Tomato Sage Consortium will will produce and screen a 60-minute film titled Sidelining the Sidemen (and Women), which explores historic and current racism in Hollywood’s music industry, examining hiring practices, working conditions, and equity issues that shape the experiences of Black musicians.
Tomato Sage Consortium’s core program and services is to cause the creation, performance, documentation and distribution of new works of art particularly but not limited to the disciplines of composed and improvised music, performance art, dance, theatre and video works. Our primary service is to make available to the public documentations of live performances, studio recordings and video works through the media entity Tomato Sage Consortium Records.