Leyla McCalla - 'Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes' [Live at Tigermen's Den 2020]

Описание: Leyla McCalla stops by Tigermen's Den in New Orleans in celebration of her new Folkways release, 'Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes.’

Video by Lily Keber
Mixing & Engineering by Adam Keil
Featuring Pete Olynciw on Bass

'Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes' available on CD, LP, and Digital.

Stream/download/purchase:
Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/leyla-mccalla...
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All other platforms: https://orcd.co/varicoloredsongs

Leyla McCalla’s 'Vari-Colored Songs' is a celebration of the complexity of Black culture and identity, and a tribute to the legacy of poet and thinker Langston Hughes. A songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, McCalla sets Hughes’ poems to her own spare yet profound compositions. She juxtaposes these with arrangements of folk songs from Haiti, the first independent Black nation and the homeland of her parents, tapping into the nuances of Black experience. McCalla’s music elegantly weaves Haitian influences together with American folk music, just as Hughes incorporated Black vernacular into his remarkable poetry, and the way the Haitian Kreyòl is a beacon for the survival of African identity through the brutal legacy of colonialism. This is music of reclamation, imbued with a quiet power that grapples with the immense weight of history.

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