True talent

I'm so loving this new artist!

 

Laura Izibor is an extremely talented, twenty-something songstress from Ireland, of all places. She's touring with India Arie right now. Move over Beyonce, Alicia Keys and all the other "artists" they play on the radio ad nauseam. I just hope the radio execs market her for staying power. I can't help but wonder why those with talent, like Corinne Bailey Rae and Chrisette Michele (who by the way has a new album coming out soon...yahoo!), don't get more visibility--just enough so we know they exist, but not so much that we get sick of them. Anyway....YAHOO!  I get so excited when I discover new music and it's good!

Meditate on this....

...enough said.

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

I am looking forward to seeing Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson again! It's at the Belasco Theatre. It's been more than twenty years since I first saw it, but it is still vivid in my psyche. The play, set in 1911 Pittsburgh, follows the main character through a heart wrenching search for cultural identity and inner freedom after emancipation from slavery. (Click on the link above for more information.)