Youssoupha Sidibe Live at Key Tea w/ Openers Lauren Arrow & Melita Silberstein
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Grammy-nominated Youssoupha Sidibe will be live at Key Tea! This special performance will feature live instruments and a DJ background! Youssoupha is a Senegalese West African Kora (African Harp) player who blends aspects of Reggae and Western music, creating a new style that has never been heard before. Make sure you get your tickets early, Youssoupha often sells out during his Bay Area shows!
Opening the night is Lauren Arrow and Melita Silberstein, Bay Area songstresses that blend harmonies with meaningful lyrics, creating an inclusive field of prayer and depth as well as lightness and play.
Friday, Dec. 15
6:30-10:30pm
$20 tickets - https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3200557
YOUSSOUPHA SIDIBE
Youssoupha is a Senegalese West African Kora (African Harp) player. Throw out all your ideas of what a harpist is, Youssoupha breaks out of traditional Kora styles many hundreds of years old, still predominant in Kora players, to create a new style blending aspects of Reggae and Western music, creating a new style that has never been heard before.
Youssoupha was Grammy nominated for his collaboration with Matisyahu on multiple tracks, including a duet he wrote with Matisyahu on Youth, the 2007 Grammy-nominated "Best Reggae Album" for which Youssoupha received a gold record. Through this and many other collaborations, as well as countless performances over the course of 20 years, Youssoupha has developed thousands of fans all over the world. Youssoupha has performed and recorded with many exceptional musicians, including Matisyahu, Michael Franti, India Arie, Steve Kimock, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Michael Kang of String Cheese Incident, Chris Berry Trio, Charles Neville, and Midnite.
LAUREN ARROW + MELITA SILBERSTEIN
Lauren and Melita are Bay Area songstresses that both in their own rite have for years written songs that celebrate the sacred, the magical and the beloved.
They also tend toward using songs as tools of healing toward the broken and the void.
For the past couple years they have collaborated in weaving their songs and their voices together to bring forth an experience that is both gentle and powerful, soothing as well as awakening. Blending harmonies with meaningful lyrics, they create an inclusive field of prayer and depth as well as lightness and play.
www.laurenarrow.com
www.melitamusic.com