Chanteuse 2022: Leyla McCalla

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation is proud to present the return of Chanteuse: Celebrating New Orleans Women in Music, our concert series featuring outstanding women vocalists, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street).

The second concert in our Chanteuse series features Leyla McCalla on Saturday, March 5.

Tickets are $5. Doors open at 7pm and the concert begins promptly at 8pm. Seating is limited, so please register in advance. All proceeds from this concert series directly support efforts of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, including the Music Relief Fund.

All performances will be livestreamed: jazzandheritage.org/live

Please note that proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test performed within 72 hours is currently required for entry. Masks are required for guests at all times.

Chanteuse 2022 Schedule:

Friday March 4 - Kristin Diable

Saturday, March 5 - Leyla McCalla

Friday, March 11 - Robin Barnes & the Fiya Birds

Saturday, March 12 - Quiana Lynell

About Leyla McCalla:

"Her voice is disarmingly natural...her magnificently transparent music holds tidings of family, memory, solitude and the inexorability of time: weighty thoughts handled with the lightest touch imaginable.” —The New York Times Leyla McCalla finds inspiration from her past and present, whether it is her Haitian heritage or her adopted home of New Orleans, she — a bilingual multi- instrumentalist, and alumna of Grammy award-winning African American string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops — has risen to produce a distinctive sound that reflects the union of her roots and experience. McCalla’s music is at once earthy, elegant, soulful and witty — it vibrates with three centuries of history, yet also feels strikingly fresh, distinctive and contemporary, sonically blending New Orleans influences and Haitian rhythms, with lyrics sung in English, French and Haitian Creole. McCalla’s widely acclaimed collaborative project, Songs of Our Native Daughters (Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla)

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation:

The Jazz & Heritage Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment. For more on what we do, please visit us online at www.jazzandheritage.org.