Lilli Lewis Performance and Harmony Workshop

Come enjoy driving jazz, blues, gospel, and folk rock with masterful songwriter and performer Lilli Lewis, then be part of the magic as she leads a workshop in harmony: “A Cappella Activism: Creating a Better World Through Random Acts of Harmony.”

Event Schedule:

6:00 p.m.: Doors open

6:30-7:15 p.m.: Performance

7:15-7:30 p.m.: Intermission

7:30-8:15/8:30 p.m.: Workshop: “A Cappella Activism: Creating a Better World Through Random Acts of Harmony.”

Tickets are on a sliding scale from $20-30. Attendees are welcome to come for the performance, the harmony workshop, or both.

Ages: This event is open to all ages. However, just like life, the performance may include occasional strong language and some challenging topics.

About the Performer/Instructor:

As the story goes, Lilli Lewis should never have been. Before she was born, Lewis’ mother was told her baby probably wouldn’t survive due to lung trouble, so the fact that Lewis now makes a living singing with those same lungs is a gift she never takes for granted. Lewis uses her voice to bring what she calls sacred songs into profane spaces, and though she’s abandoned trying to define her sound, she hopes her audiences leave shows knowing two things: that they are brilliant as they are, and that they have the ability to use that brilliance to make a better world.

Trained as an opera singer and classical pianist, Georgia native Lewis has been a composer, producer and performer for over two decades. After carving out space as an African American queer woman of size, Lewis’ career has culminated in her album Americana being a top pick everywhere from NPR’s All Songs Considered to Rolling Stone. 

The FolkRockDiva is a musical polyglot who glides easily between folk, roots, country soul, gospel, and jazz, and has integrated New Orleans traditions by singing lead for Dirty Dozen Brass Band founding member Kirk Joseph’s Backyard Groove. Lewis’ Louisiana Red Hot Records releases include The Henderson Sessions, We Belong, and Americana.

Powerhouse singer-songwriter Lilli Lewis has announced her 2022 tour, including dates at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Folk Alliance International Conference, and The Kennedy Center which has called her: “A powerhouse performer adding her unique voice and talent to the national discussion of the state of social justice in America.”

https://www.lillilewis.com/2022/

Press:

“One of the most powerful records of 2021”— Lorie Leibig, The Boot 

“Lilli Lewis made a statement not only about her ability to refine and expand roots forms like murder ballads, a cappella spirituals and singer-songwriter storytelling with transformative empathy and classically trained poise, but also about how she’s learned to bridge racially segregated cultural and musical worlds over her lifetime…she stake(s) out her place in the scene—on the authority of mastery…“—Jewly Hight, NPR, All Songs Considered 

“the most mesmerizing and soul touching combination of jazz, blues, gospel, and field folk imaginable. The audience went fn nuts.”—Middleton O’Malley, Ogden Museum of Art