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Meshell Ndegecello

First Preview: Jun 1, 2020
Opening Date: Jun 13, 2020
Closing Date: Jun 14, 2020
Running Time: 01:50
Meshell Ndegecello

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Playing @
Sony Hall
235 West 46th Streeet, New York City, NY 10036
There are albums dedicated to personal pain, or political protest, love, death, nostalgia, rage. There are those that are simply fun, glossy, the soundtrack to a good time. Some are exploratory, a musical journey, shapeshifting soundmaking, a new way to do an old thing. An artist can make a choice about concept and content, or heed a vision, follow their muse or their manager.

But in times so extreme and overwhelming, when there is no known expression for the feeling, no satisfactory direction for art or action, then they might take refuge in a process, a ritual, something familiar, the shape and sound of which recall another time altogether, so that they can weather the present long enough to call it the past. Some albums are testimony, some confessions, and some are escape.Ventriloquism, the latest album from MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO, is a place, like its process, to take refuge from one storm too many.

Musically, Ventriloquism has the hallmarks of all of Ndegeocello’s work, lush and investigative, subversive and sublime. As always, she pays tribute to her diverse influences and in these eleven covers, we hear them layered over one another. 

"Early on in my career, I was told to make the same kind of album again and again, and when I didn’t do that, I lost support. There isn’t much diversity within genres, which are ghettoizing themselves, and I liked the idea of turning hits I loved into something even just a little less familiar or formulaic. It was an opportunity to pay a new kind of tribute.”  -
Meshell
ConcertConcert
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 16
Audience Advisory: Venue is wheelchair accessible, however table seating is still done first come, first serve. Please contact Sony Hall closer to the date of the show you are attending to see if we can hold seating for you. Full Dinner Menu Available A portion of the profits from this album will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 13th @ 8 PM


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