Name: Kimaya Diggs - "Quincy" Album Release Show
Start: 2023-03-11T20:00:00-05:00
Location: The Drake

Kimaya Diggs - "Quincy" Album Release Show

The Drake

Kimaya Diggs releases her second LP, Quincy, with a celebratory show at The Drake in Amherst, MA. Special guests TBA.

Kimaya Diggs releases her second LP, Quincy! Come celebrate! The anticipated followup to her debut album Breastfed, Quincy explores Kimaya&#x27;s full-band sound. With deep roots in soul, the storytelling elements of the singer-songwriter tradition, and indie rock bones, Quincy is a joyful expression of surviving several years of grief. Created over the course of three years, Quincy showcases Kimaya&#x27;s expansive voice, emotional songwriting, and newfound love of the guitar. The band includes Jacob Rosazza and Jake Edwards (Lux Deluxe), Naomi Nye, Maisie Dolan, and Reed Sutherland. Special guests TBA. This will be Kimaya&#x27;s only hometown show during spring and summer 2023 -- come on out!Preorder the album at www.kimayadiggs.comBIOKIMAYA DIGGS is a musician and writer, born and based in the rolling hills of Western Massachusetts. The sounds of her childhood included Emily Dickinson, Ella Fitzgerald, Whitney Houston, 70’s soul, and songs around the table with her family.A fourth-generation artist, Kimaya grew up singing with her sisters, and found her voice across the facets of neo-soul, jazz, and R&amp;B. She’s crafted a genre-defying style that celebrates the power and dexterity of her voice. Slippery and acrobatic at times, earthy and urgency-filled at others, her voice has been called “smoothly captivating” by the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Her songwriting beautifully captures the spectrum of her vocal range, and the singular control she has over her instrument.Her debut album Breastfed (2018) is a bittersweet chronicle of growth towards the light. Produced by LuxDeluxe bassist Jacob Rosazza, the LP features lush string arrangements and moving harmonies. The single How Am I Sposta Know placed in top 10 in 93.9 The River’s Best New Songs of 2018.Her EP One More Holiday (2021) builds on her jazz roots for a classic Christmas sound. The title track, about the death of her mother, “captures the way that the season of joy can also intensify the feeling of loss… during the holiday season,” wrote the Greenfield Recorder. She launched the album with a Christmas-themed variety night in her native Northampton.As a writer, Diggs’ personal essays, short fiction, and poetry has been published widely, earning her a Callaloo Fellowship in Poetry in 2017. In 2020, she headlined the Emily Dickinson Museum’s Tell It Slant poetry festival, performing live from Emily Dickinson’s historic bedroom.More recently, to commemorate Black History Month in 2022, she released a cover of Solange’s “Cranes in the Sky,” a song that documents a journey towards self-love. Her single They Can Say What They Like, released in 2021 on A-Side B-Side Records, written to benefit Cancer Connection, Inc., raising over $2000 for the organization. It placed #6 in 93.9 The River’s Best New Songs of 2021.

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