Leyla McCalla
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Wednesday, Mar 23, 2022 7:30pm - 9pm
Location
Roots Theater @ National Museum of African American Music
Details
On March 23, 2022, chatterbird will partner with singer-songwriter and cellist Leyla McCalla to present a concert at the National Museum of African-American Music's Roots Theater, creatively reimagining her album, Vari-Colored Songs. As a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, McCalla sets the poetry of Langston Hughes 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. 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.
