Posts Tagged: opening


1
Oct 09

All Of This Is Not By Chance…”

I’m still on a bit of a high from the India.Arie con­cert last night at the Pageant. I think my open­ing set went rather well. It’s always hard to tell. I know when peo­ple have never heard you or your music before they tend to really focus and take it all in, so you never get an imme­di­ate reac­tion. I’d like to thank every­body who helped me out with my per­for­mance: Baba Kelly on per­cus­sion (who I asked only the night before), artist/producer Reign Smith on keys, superstars-in-the-making Teresa Jenee, Kiwi Harvey, & DB Sutherlin on back­ground vocals, some of the great stu­dents of Crossroad College Prep on per­cus­sion, gui­tars, and strings (includ­ing Ms. Emma Silver who gave a great sax solo) and their band instruc­tor, musi­cal genius Lamar Harris.

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27
Sep 09

Who’s Opening for India.Arie at the Pageant on September 30th?

ME! I got the green­light on Thursday, so life’s been a dizzy­ing blur of activ­ity since then. Things are com­ing together pretty well and I’m very excited about this show.

India.Arie has been a great inspi­ra­tion and influ­ence on me since her first album. When peo­ple used to ask me to describe my musi­cal style, I used to say “imag­ine if India.Arie was a guy,” so I’m truly hum­bled to receive the oppor­tu­nity to open for her.

There are still tick­ets avail­able, so if you’re inter­ested in com­ing out, go to http://www.thepageant.com and get your tick­ets. Show starts at 8 pm. I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing you there!