Press release from WCU Bardo Arts Center:
The Western Carolina University Bardo Arts Center will present Shana Tucker performing a concert of music she calls “ChamberSoul™” on Friday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale to the public now.
Tucker is a singer-songwriter and cellist who credits her genre-bending “ChamberSoul™” journey to the influences of her jazz and classical roots interwoven with 1980s and ’90s pop music, movie soundtracks and world music. She has opened for internationally acclaimed artists including Norah Jones, Lisa Fischer, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Javon Jackson, the Blind Boys of Alabama and Indigo Girls.
Touted by JazzTimes Magazine as “a jazz talent…whose imprint and vitality has already been quite visible in North Carolina,” Tucker performs in a style and sound described as a mash-up of Dianne Reeves, Joni Mitchell, and Tracy Chapman, with an efficient complexity that is reminiscent of Bill Withers. She termed the phrase “chamber soul” to best describes what the listener should expect when experiencing her music.
Tucker is a beneficiary of public school arts education, honing cello talents that resulted in a scholarship to Howard University in Washington, DC, where she was first introduced to jazz and a wealth of essential musical resources in faculty, peers, visiting artists and the community at-large. She completed her cello studies at the City University of New York-Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music before moving to North Carolina to raise her son.
In 2009, she returned to her music, establishing a network of musicians and a name for herself in the Triangle area of North Carolina. Her debut solo recording, “SHiNE,”” and a subsequent interview on NPR grabbed the ear of Cirque de Soleil’s talent recruiter, who invited her to Las Vegas to join the world-class theatrical production company as cellist and mezzo-soprano for “KÀ,” the group’s unprecedented, gravity-defying production at the MGM Grand Hotel.
For further information or to purchase tickets to see Shana Tucker: ChamberSoul™ at the WCU Bardo Arts Center on Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m., visit the Bardo Arts Center box office Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m., or one hour prior to each ticketed performance. Tickets and information can also be found online at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or by calling the box office at 828.227.2479.
Newly restructured as a collective center for the arts, the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center is home to Western Carolina University’s Performance Hall, which features an elegant 1,000-seat theatre, with finely-tuned acoustics and state-of-the-art lighting system. Bardo Arts Center is located at 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee
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