MCCALLA CASTS "A CHARMING, RESONANT SPELL" (THE
GUARDIAN)
Leyla McCalla – Carolina Chocolate Drops member and
vocalist/cellist whose solo album 'Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute To Langston
Hughes' will be released February 4 on Music Maker Relief Foundation – has been
added to an APAP showcase January
10 at City Winery with Wesley Stace hosting. She joins a bill with Stace (formerly John Wesley Harding),
David Wax Museum, Arc Iris (Jocie Adams, formerly of The Low Anthem), Joy Kills
Sorrow, Sam Lee, and Grace & Tony.
'Vari-Colored Songs' is a stunning solo debut consisting of
original music set to Langston Hughes music; Haitian folk songs; and two
originals.
WHO: Leyla McCalla, on a bill with David Wax Museum, Arc
Iris, Joy Kills Sorrow, and others
WHAT: Wesley Stace's APAP Showcase
WHEN: Friday, January 10, 2014, 6:00pm doors, 8:00pm start
WHERE: City Winery, 155 Varick St, NYC
TICKETS: $18, 20, 25 at City Winery box office and
CityWinery.com
There is already buzz in the UK, where she has played on
three BBC programs and the Guardian made her subject of a profile and a
four-star review, saying that the album casts "a charming, resonant
spell." Last month, she opened for Mavis Staples. Clive Davis of the Times
(UK) called 'Vari-Colored Songs' a "triumph… unforgettable."
Meanwhile, Songlines Magazine named 'Vari-Colored Songs' one of its top ten new
albums, calling it "exquisite," continuing, "Anyone who's seen
the Carolina Chocolate Drops will have been warmed by this young woman's
artistry… this exploration of the city's under-explored Caribbean currents is
most welcome; the Big Easy is, after all, as close – both geographically and
culturally – to Port-au-Prince as it is to New York City."
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