Fever Pitch Walking Music Tour

The Fever Pitch Walking Music Tour is a two-week, over 150-mile pilgrimage on foot from Albany to New York City that interdisciplinary artist and activist Taína Asili will be embarking on from September 12 to 26, 2025. An Albany, New York-based Puerto Rican singer, composer, and activist, Taína Asili creates at the intersection of music and social justice. Along the route, Asili will perform her multimedia show Fever Pitch—a fusion of live music, dance, and video centered on climate justice—at select community spaces. As a pilgrimage, the walk honors ancestral memory, the land, and the frontline communities fighting for a just and livable future. Culminating during New York Climate Week with a final performance at UPROSE Brooklyn on Sept 26th, the tour is both a spiritual offering and a call to action—amplifying the voices, stories, and strategies of the climate justice movement, one step and one song at a time.

The inspiration for this journey emerged from a convergence of experiences and visions. Over the past two decades, she has performed across the nation—from Lincoln Center to renowned national festivals to the Women’s March on Washington—and her music has been featured by NPR, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Democracy Now. In addition to her creative work, Taína serves as Board Chair of Soul Fire Farm, and has collaborated with numerous racial, gender, and climate justice organizations. After two years in the making, Taína’s new climate justice show Fever Pitch recently premiered at several academic institutions—but Taína Asili felt a calling to bring the show to more grassroots spaces. She was reminded of a transformative 2024 tour with the North Carolina Climate Justice Collective, where she performed excerpts of the work for frontlines communities. She also held in her heart the spiritual impact of the several day long Peace Walks she has joined over the years, led by Jun San Yasuda of the Nipponzan Myohoji order. More recently, reading John Francis’ Planetwalker—the story of a man who gave up motorized transportation for 22 years and remained silent for 17 of them as a form of environmental protest and prayer, traveling with a banjo in hand—inspired a vision in Taína to carry her show from Albany to New York City on foot. 

Now in motion, Taína is guided by a council of advisors that includes seasoned peace walkers, marathon runners, physical trainers, and spiritual leaders, and will be joined by three of her musicians and will invite others to walk in solidarity along the way. Taína is currently seeking partners and supporters to accompany her on this journey—through hosting performances, providing overnight accommodations and meals, or offering financial contributions to sustain the walk. This collective effort invites organizations, individuals, and communities to walk alongside the vision—helping nourish and amplify a powerful intersection of art, activism, and healing.

Stay tuned here as more information about the The Fever Pitch Walking Music Tour is announced, including tour stops, and to learn more about how you can support this pilgrimage.