@ayanacontreras

@ayanacontreras has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in August 2021. The social media accounts linked to from @ayanacontreras are: Instagram, X, Bluesky. Besides social media accounts, ayanacontreras has populated their site with JUNE 5TH - FIVE POINTS FIRST FRIDAY | Five Points BID, DJ Ayana Contreras at Three Top Lounge, SenoraAfrobohemia - Etsy Disconunt Code!, RSVP for Sips & Beats by Vibes After Dark, Ebo Taylor & Pat Thomas w/ Selasee & The Fa Fa Family | Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, Best way to see Black Chicago (and beyond) through a fresh lens - Chicago Reader, AESOP 95th Street Station DJ Booth, Chicago, About Me, Ayana Contreras | The Central Station Memphis, BOOK | Energy Never Dies | Ayana Contreras | University of Illinois Press, Guestbook pt 3 | Listening Party with Ayana Contreras - RSVPify, Events | BronzevilleWinery, Merch, Big Ears Festival Podcast: 1 January 2026, NYE FUNKY A$$ DISCO EXTRAVAGANZA — Easy Does It, A Love Supreme: Music and Spiritual Expression - Big Ears, NPR's Best Songs of 2025 : NPR, BOOK | Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic, NYE '26 w/ Kenneth Whalum & Ayana Contreras Tickets | @ Dorians, Chicago | DICE, Mothership Connected: Book Signing and Conversation | DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, Amaro Freitas’ Sonic Homage to Nature and Ancestry, NPR All Things Considered: Miguel returns with 'CAOS', 10/24 All Songs Considered : NPR Music Podcast, Chance The Rapper Talks Growth and Legacy - THE DROP, Newport Jazz Fest 2025 - Lakecia Benjamin in Conversation with Ayana Contreras | KUVO Jazz, Boogie, Skating & Benson - DownBeat Magazine, Newport Jazz Fest 2025 - Christian McBride in conversation with Ayana Contreras | KUVO Jazz, Listening to spinning records, and Red Line Extension opinions, at 95th Street Station - Streetsblog Chicago, DownBeat Magazine Critics Capsules, Lucía: From Mexico with Jazz, AESOP 95th Street Station DJ Booth, CTA and Local DJs Are Coming Back to Provide Commuters with Music and Good Sounds at the 95th/Dan Ryan Terminal, Fred Wesley & the New J.B.’s bring the funk to Pritzker Pavilion - Chicago Reader, Tank and the Bangas Talk Tiny Desk Origins & Creating Without Limits | JAS June Experience, Sacred Grounds, Gospel Sounds, New York Times: Baltimore’s Brandon Woody Channels His Hometown on ‘For the Love of It All’, NPR New Music Friday: The best new albums out April 25, Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf 2025: Episode 4 with Ayana Contreras, We Just Got To Do This: Adrian Younge talks uplifting legends with Jazz Is Dead - THE DROP, Roberta Flack on WJPC in Chicago discussing Japan's Love of Black Music (1978), Mellow Dreamin': The Times of Drummer Isaac "Redd" Holt, Soulful Strut (my current radio show) | Saturday 2pm-4pm (Mountain Time) - KUVO, Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago (my book), The War on Disco | American Experience | PBS (2023), "Women Who Rock" Truth (TV Episode 2022) - IMDb, "Women Who Rock" Defiance (TV Episode 2022) - IMDb, Legacy: From Horns to House (2020) - IMDb, WGN Radio OTL #934: Chicago Style celebrates local fashion history, Vocalo Radio Gave Some Of Chicago’s Biggest Stars Their Start. It Will Go Off The Air Next Month, ‘The War on Disco’: How high-energy music made some want to dance, and others want to demolish, A meditation on the flow of being - Chicago Reader, Jazz as a Salve For Our Times | KUVO Jazz, Jazz Talks 2025 — Winter Jazzfest, NPR Music 124 Best Songs of 2024, Save the Children - Cinema Chicago, 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Vibraphone, Theaster Gates and Ayana Contreras: The Sound of Johnson Publishing Company, Chicago Style Film & Fashion Show, GuestBook Playlist (classic Parkway Ballroom-inspired sounds), it wasn't love, by Ayana Contreras, Carlos Niño & Friends - More Energy Fields, Current — International Anthem | A Chicago-Born Recording Company That Produces And Promotes Progressive Media, NPR New Music Friday: Nov 03 : All Songs Considered, Blue Note Jazz Festival Napa 2023 Highlights Jazz's many "Angles", Yussef Dayes’s ‘Black Classical Music’ Shows “The Relation Between All These Different Stars”, "Rare Jewel" Color Footage Of 1948 Bud Billiken Parade Rediscovered, Chance the Rapper relives the ‘Acid Rap’ era with emotional United Center blowout, Gary Simmons: Public Enemy at MCA Chicago, Meshell Ndegeocello: A Virgo's Dreams Past, Present & Future, Kassa Overall on The Shifting of The Cool, Emily King's New Album Is Out: That's A Special Occasion, Chance the Rapper’s ‘Acid Rap’ mixtape is turning 10 | WBEZ Chicago, Indie Soul Icon Teedra Moses Sits Down With Ayana Contreras, Eddie Kendricks’ ‘People’ Was No Accident, DJ Ayana Contreras Logo T-shirt - Etsy, My Written Work for Vocalo Radio 91.1FM, My Work for NPR Music, DownBeat Magazine Author Archive, Finding Phoenix: Lakecia Benjamin Enters Her Next Phase (DownBeat Cover Story Feb '23), 2023 Best New Artist Grammy Awardee Samara Joy In Conversation With Ayana Contreras, (New York Times) Terri Lyne Carrington's New Standards Feature, Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz (NYT), Here are 5 Chicago soul records you should know : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast, Left of Black | Afro-Optimism and Black Chicago with Ayana Contreras, Chicago Is a Nexus of ’60s–’70s Black Music (guesting on Slate's Hit Parade Podcast), Charles Stepney built lasting cathedrals inside Black music - Chicago Reader, Vocalo Radio 91.1FM interview - Keyon Harrold: Shaman Of Sound, My DownBeat Blue Note Jazz Fest Napa Recap, Charles Stepney: Out of the Shadows w/ Black Monument Ensemble at Millennium Park, Chance The Rapper At Vocalo: “You Can’t Thrive Without Community” – Vocalo Radio 91.1FM, The International Anthem Podcast, Reclaimed Soul (Vocalo/WBEZ Radio), Other Written Work, Conversation: Kwame Brathwaite—Things Well Worth Waiting For | The Art Institute of Chicago, MCA - Music Talk: Nona Hendryx and Jamila Woods with Ayana Contreras, Ayana Contreras Q&A + Book Signing at The Silver Room [recording], Imagining Chicago’s Future: A Film Screening & Conversation, Stax Museum Celebrates Chi-Town Soul, WTTW / ‘Energy Never Dies’ Reflects on Chicago’s Black History, Culture, Chicago Tribune / What We’re Reading: With ‘Energy Never Dies,’ Ayana Contreras has written the cultural biography of Black Chicago, WBEZ / Ayana Contreras’ new book is a love letter to the creativity, optimism of Black Chicago, Ayana Contreras and the Fight to Keep Black Chicago Alive | Chicago Defender, Chicago magazine / Ayana Contreras Spotlights the Power of Black Excellence, Weaving together memoir, music and history, Ayana Contreras’s 'Energy Never Dies' is her altar of dreams • The TRiiBE, Unapologetic Boldness: Exploring Intergenerational Connections in Ayana Contreras’ Energy Never Dies | Newcity Lit, Book Excerpt / To Write a Revolution on the Sky: On the Radical Legacy of Curtis Mayfield, Book Excerpt / On Stony Island Avenue: Boulevard of Black Culture.