Leyla McCalla
- Presented By: Virginia Arts Festival
- May 10, 2023
- Virginia Arts Festival
- 451 Bank Street, , Norfolk, VA 23510
- (757) 282-2822
- Time: 7:30 PM
- Price: Tickets at vafest.org
Details
This gifted banjo player, cellist, and singer-songwriter weaves intricate stories in music that sighs and shouts. She won fame as a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and her collaborations with singer/songwriter/musical historian and activist Rhiannon Giddens and Our Native Daughters (joined with Giddens, Amythyst Kiah and Allison Russell). Her latest album Break the Thermometer is a vivid recounting of Haitian history — “magnificently transparent music [that] holds tidings of family, memory, solitude” (The New York Times). A concert that transports the listener…get your tickets now.