The month of June features an abundance of virtual events for all the family at the Linenhall Arts Centre, encapsulating film, various music genres and a special activity for children and young people.
Since leaving Carolina Chocolate Drops for a solo career in 2015, Rhiannon Giddens has boldly stretched with each successive album, not only redefining Black American traditions, but adding flourishes of the avant garde to the result. Her first collaboration with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi in 2019 continued in this vein.
On the pairâs second outing,
Theyâre Calling Me Home (Nonesuch), the two opt for a kinder, gentler path back to tradition, serving up works like âI Shall Not Be Movedâ and âAmazing Grace.â On that latter traditional hymn, Emer Mayock adds uilleann pipes to Turrisiâs frame drum to yield an unearthly song.
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(Motown Gospel )
Merry Clayton s spine-tingling vocal on the Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter is one of the most indelible in rock history, created, as Clayton recounts in 20 Feet From Stardom, during a late-night recording session that had her pairing off with Mick Jagger while wearing a mink coat and curlers in her hair.
That 2013 Oscar-winning documentary finally gave Clayton her due. And then tragedy struck: In 2014, she suffered injuries in a car accident in Los Angeles that resulted in both of her legs being amputated below her knees. Beautiful Scars is the first album the 72-year-old singer has made since then. Produced by Lou Adler, who guided Clayton s underappreciated 1970s solo career, it s a return to the New Orleans-born vocalist s gospel roots, with a contemporary sheen.
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