Leyla McCalla
All tickets are ‘Will Call’. You do not need a mobile or printed ticket. Your name will be on a list at the venue and will be checked by a Payomet volunteer or staff member. Doors will open 1 hour prior to the event.
Note that all tickets are 'General Admission' meaning you are guaranteed a seat within your selected section, however not a specific seat. General Admission seats are first come, first served. Please arrive no earlier than 1 hour before the show.
Tickets are non-refundable.
Payomet is located at Highlands Center at Cape Cod National Seashore. In partnership with the National Park Service, all smoking is prohibited on federal lands.
Outside food and drink are prohibited.
The phenomenal voice and powerful lyrics of cellist, banjoist and guitarist Leyla McCalla will be visiting us under the tent on Monday, July 24 for an evening of contemporary American folk music deeply inspired by her Haitian roots.
Leyla 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. McCalla’s widely-acclaimed collaborative project, Songs of Our Native Daughters (Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell), 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.
Ticket Price: $32*-$50* // Members: $30-$48
*Note that ticket prices will increase day-of-show
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