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Nina Simone Tribute Tickets

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LEAF Global Arts and the YMI Cultural Center are thrilled to invite you to this pop-up music series as part of the Reimagine 2020 community event!

Many years ago, The Del Cardo Club was a flagship community business building in the nexus of Asheville’s predominately African American district known as “The Block”, one of the largest “black-owned” business districts in the South. It was a popular entertainment and business wub for the East End Community. The second floor of the Del Cardo Club hosted many local musicians during that time. We are excited to bring music back into this historic building with local musicians paying tribute to another local American singer-songwriter and influential civil rights activist, The High priestess of Soul, Nina Simone.

What and Where is it?
“A Tribute to Nina Simone” music series will feature three local musicians on three separate evenings. Before each performance, you will have an opportunity to enjoy a complimentary beverage while you join an exclusive tour of the LEAF Global Experience. The Tribute to Nina Simone performances will be a recorded performance for the upcoming Reimagine 2020 virtual stream sooo… shhhh… a recording will be in progress. 🙂 This experience has been curated by Claude Coleman.

Tickets are now available:
Friday, September 18th ~ “Natural Born Leaders perform A Tribute to Nina Simone”
Sunday, September 20th ~ “Lyric, a Solo Tribute to Nina Simone”
Friday, September 25th ~ “Adi the Monk, A Tribute to Nina Simone”
Saturday, September 26th ~ “Debrissa and the Bear King, Reimagine A Tribute to Nina Simone”

 

AN URGENT LETTER FROM THE LEAF BOARD:

For nearly 30 years, LEAF Global Arts has connected people through the power of art, music, and culture. Every shared moment has been made possible because of you – our community.

The LEAF Festival is critical to funding LEAF’s larger work: providing global cultural arts programming for thousands of local youth and preserving cultures and traditions around the world.

This year, we are facing a financial crossroads: between the loss of last fall’s Festival, losing a majority of our arts education funding in 2025, and not fully recovering from COVID, the future is bleak. The upcoming LEAF Festival could be our last if we don’t come together to sustain the heart of LEAF’s mission – but we have seen what this community can do when united for a cause greater than itself.

To open the Festival experience to as many people as possible, and to rally the full spirit of LEAF, we are offering a limited number of LEAF LOVE Tickets at a significant discount.

These special tickets, offered at 30% off (our highest discount, even more so than our Early Bird pricing) are our way of ensuring everyone has a place in this story. Full-priced tickets also remain available for those with the means to give a little more to help support LEAF’s vital work.

Your presence, your voice, and your support matter more than ever right now. Join us in making this LEAF Festival one that the world will never forget and ensuring the music continues for generations to come. 

Mayani is a Maasai boy from longido Arusha. He went to boarding school at 6 years old and lost his Maasai language and tradition. Since joining the LEAF program, he has learned to sing Maasai songs, practiced the ‘jump’ tradition and wear Maasai shukas (traditional clothing). Mayani is extremely happy and is currently teaching other youth the culture.

 

 

 

 

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