Dessa: 416 Club Commissions
with Crescent Moon is in Big Trouble and MankweSunday, January 23, 2011 - 7:30pm
7:00pm
$5.00
$5.00
Limited Tix available at door; ltd seating
At The Cedar
In partnership with the Jerome Foundation, The Cedar has commissioned seven local artists to compose, practice, and perform new music pieces in collaboration with other local musicians. This project drives The Cedar's vision to support emerging artists.
Writer, rapper, singer, and member of hip hop collective Doomtree, DESSA will perform her project “Laws and Appetites” in collaboration with bassist Sean McPherson, pianist Kahlil Queen, and a flamenco percussionist quartet. The piece uses musical tension, minor keys, and vocal swells and harmonies to focus on the disparity between the ways we ask ourselves to behave and our prevailing inclinations.
There'll be short opening sets by Crescent Moon is in Big Trouble, and Mankwe.
No more advance tickets available; there'll be a limited supply of tickets available for purchase at the door, first come, first served. Limited seating show
Dessa’s first release with Doomtree, False Hopes, introduced a unique sensibility to underground hip-hop: literary, bitter-sweet, and wry. She alternated between a clever, droll persona as an emcee and her earnest, unaffected delivery as a singer with a low,...
big trouble is a place where dreams come true. we're not demanding. we're not "high maintenance." we're flexible, fun, and generally down for whatever. want to enjoy some instrumental music, including sly covers of death cab for cutie, the zombies, bjork,...
Major Funders
This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008
