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FREE WITH TICKET | SUNDAY, JULY 23 | 7.00PM
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Leyla McCalla finds inspiration from her past and present… whether it is her Haitian heritage or her adopted home of New Orleans, she — a bilingual multi-instrumentalist, and alumna of Grammy award-winning African-American string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops — has risen to produce a distinctive sound that reflects the union of her roots and experience.
McCalla’s music is at once earthy, elegant, soulful and witty — it vibrates with three centuries of history, yet also feels strikingly fresh, distinctive and contemporary, sonically blending New Orleans influences and Haitian rhythms, with lyrics sung in English, French and Haitian Creole.
Garnering praise from NPR Music, Variety, and The Guardian for her 2022 album Breaking the Thermometer, McCalla’s music illuminates the Black roots of American culture.
McCalla’s widely-acclaimed collaborative project, Songs of Our Native Daughters (Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell), was released via Smithsonian Folkways in 2019. The album pulled influence from past sources to create a reinvented slave narrative, confronting sanitized views about America’s history of slavery, racism, and misogyny from a powerful, modern Black female perspective.
The Levitt Pavilion presented the launch of the inaugural Our Native Daughters tour on July 23, 2019. Four years to the day later, we are thrilled to welcome back Leyla, her phenomenal voice and powerful lyrics for an unforgettable evening of contemporary American folk music.
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The Levitt Pavilion 2023 Season will feature over 50 shows presented free-of-charge (free-ticket shows) as well as our Stars on Tour series and Gala... exciting announcements are in the pipeline to fill your spring, summer and fall with music and more.
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July 23, 2023 | 7:00 pm