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Jazz Icon Charles McPherson, The Brandee Younger Trio, and Mitch Frohman & The Bronx Horns complete the day’s musical offerings
 
 TRANSART’s Second Annual Poughkeepsie Jazz CrawlTakes Over
Downtown Poughkeepsie on Saturday, August 17
 
Tickets Go on Sale April 15 at www.jazzinthevalleyny.org

​POUGHKEEPSIE, NY, April 8, 2024 –  Jazz in the Valley (JITV), upstate New York’s premiere festival, returns to Poughkeepsie’s Waryas Park on Sunday, August 18, 2024, starting at Noon and ending at 6:00 pm. Presented by TRANSART & Cultural Services, Inc., the 24th annual festival celebrates the legacy, history and future of jazz, with a blend of young and legendary musicians that include harpist Brandee Younger and her trio, alto saxophonist Charles McPherson, Mitch Frohman & The Bronx Horns and JITV Artistic Director Javon Jackson performs with featured guests, the esteemed poet Nikki Giovanni and vocalist Nnenna Freelon.

This year’s festival kicks off on Saturday August 17, with the second annual Poughkeepsie Jazz Crawl. This celebration throughout downtown Poughkeepsie returns after last year’s outstanding inaugural event. Free and open to the public, the jazz crawl will run from 4:00 – 9:00 pm, featuring exciting musical performances, themed cocktails, and fine cuisine at three local eateries.
 
For festival founder/producer Greer Smith, recipient of the Jazz Journalist Association’s 2021 Jazz Hero Award, this year’s festival is a continuation of its successful formula for presenting first class jazz to the Hudson Valley. “Since our inception 24 years ago, we’ve presented this music as a living legacy - something not just to be listened to, but something to be studied, cherished and shared,” she says. “We strive to present musicians from different eras, different genres and different styles, to show the unity-in-diversity that makes jazz the dynamic art form that it is.” This year’s lineup of musicians is true aural evidence of Smith’s swinging success as a festival curator.
 
Tickets go on sale Monday, April 15, at www.jazzinthevalleyny.org. Waryas Park is located on the beautiful banks of the Hudson River, steps away from Poughkeepsie’s Metro North Train Station and just a 90-minute car ride from New York City.
 
Brandee Younger Trio
The Grammy-nominated, Long Island-born, harpist Brandee Younger is the next step in the evolution of jazz harp after Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. Younger is fluent in many musical genres, from classical, jazz and Latin, to pop, R&B, gospel and hip-hop. Younger’s ethereal mix of those sounds are heard on her 2021 major label debut recording, Somewhere Different, and on her successful follow-up, Brand New Life. Voted a “Rising Star '' in the DownBeat Magazine’s 2020 International Critics Poll, Younger has worked with a wide variety of artists including Stevie Wonder, Jack DeJohnette, The Roots and Wynton Marsalis. When Younger comes to the JITV stage with drummer Allan Mednard and bassist Rashaan Carter, you’ll hear her infinite variety of influences, inventions and improvisations.
 
Charles McPherson
For over 50 years, San Diego-based alto saxophonist Charles McPherson has reigned supreme as one of the last true bebop saxophonists who genuinely knows how to play like Charlie Parker and incorporate Bird’s genius into his own sound. A native of Detroit who grew up playing with pianist Barry Harris, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams and bassist Paul Chambers, McPherson’s piercing alto tones enriched the music of several jazz icons including Charles Mingus, Art Farmer, Jaki Byard and Wynton Marsalis. McPherson has recorded over 25 albums as a leader including, Be-Bop Revisited, Con Alma, Manhattan Nocturne and his April 2024 release on the Smoke Sessions Records label, Reverence. Now is the time to see this musician in his prime.
 
Javon Jackson with Nikki Giovanni and Nnenna Freelon
Javon Jackson, the festival’s Artistic Director of Programming, was a bonafide Young Lion when he was a Jazz Messenger with Art Blakey in the late 80’s. Blessed with a robust and riveting sound, Jackson was the horn man of choice for numerous jazz leaders including pianist Hank Jones, trumpeter Thad Jones and bassist Ron Carter. As a leader with more than 14 CDs to his credit, his 2022 album, (NAACP Image Award nominated CD) The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni garnered a nomination for the NAACP Image Award in the Best Jazz Album category. Giovanni’s Billie Holiday-buoyed vocals are a joy to behold. Fresh off the heels of the release of her groundbreaking HBO Documentary “Looking for Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”, Giovanni and Jackson bring their stellar collaborative work to the Jazz in the Valley stage for a performance also featuring vocals from the incomparable voice of Nnenna Freelon. Renowned within the jazz idiom, Freelon also recently garnered attention for her Grammy-nominated children’s album, Ancestars.
 
Mitch Frohman & The Bronx Horns
A frequent festival favorite is the sound of New York’s Afro-Latin rhythms, a concert where attendees don’t hesitate to get up and dance. Enter tenor saxophonist/flutist Mitch Frohman & The Bronx Horns. A veteran sideman with almost every Latin star – from Tito Puente, Machito and Eddie and Charlie Palmieri, to Celia Cruz, Joe Cuba and David Byrne – Frohman was the recipient of the 2016 Latin Jazz USA Chico O'Farrill Lifetime Achievement Award. Combining the best of mambo, salsa and Latin jazz, this ensemble, formed in 1992, moves and grooves with the best of them, as evidenced by their breakout Horace Silver album, Silver in the Bronx.
 
One year before its 25th anniversary, JITV is poised to take the music to new heights. “We are thrilled about this year’s festival and looking forward to hitting that milestone next year,” Greer Smith says with anticipation. “There is so much more to come.”
 
Join JITV on Sunday afternoons for its weekly Rhythm Salon Series, an acoustic afternoon in The Gallery @ 107 featuring TRANSART’s artists-in-residence renowned trombonist Craig Harris, vocalist and pianist Mala Waldron, bassist Christopher Dean-Sullivan, percussion master Chief Baba Neil Clarke, and their special guests. These performances allow music lovers the opportunity to experience jazz in an intimate setting and to directly interact with the musicians. Doors open at 2:30 PM for these weekly 3:00 PM performances at 107 Henry Street, Kingston NY. Tickets are $10 at the door. For further information, please visit www.transartinc.org.
 
TRANSART & Cultural Services, Inc. is a Kingston, NY-based non-profit arts organization dedicated to promoting awareness of the art, history and popular culture of people of African descent. The festival’s origins go back to an afternoon of music in the year 2000, when TRANSART received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts to commission Ahmad Jamal to write an original composition for the organization. Jamal composed “Picture Perfect,” inspired by the scenic beauty of the Hudson Valley, which he played in concert. In addition to the music, JITV also features films and other programs designed to increase dialogue dealing with jazz music, the musicians and the audience. The festival also provides educational programming to area schools. The festival also presents a program of music and interviews by host Sharif Abdus-Salaam on WKNY, 107.9 FM and 1490 AM, www.radiokingston.org.
 
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets go on sale Monday, April 15, at www.jazzinthevalleyny.org. Discounted early bird tickets are $50 through August 1. Afterward, general admission is $60, and $70 at the gate. The cost for students with valid ID is $20. Tickets can be purchased online through the festival’s website (jazzinthevalleyny.org). For group ticket sales, directions and more information about Jazz in the Valley, contact TRANSART at info@transartinc.org, (845) 384-6350, or log on to www.jazzinthevalleyny.org. For a combination ticket and round trip bus travel from New York City, call (917) 535-9781. Tickets can be purchased in-person at TRANSART’s office, 107 Henry Street, Kingston NY, and at Blue Byrds Haberdashery in Kingston NY.
 

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​PITTSBURGH, PA, March 28, 2024 – Performing at the top of her game, drawing from her hit-filled career spanning more than 25 years, the dynamic diva known as Mýa comes to Pittsburgh to deliver her astounding artistry in the latest edition of Soul Sessions, the series of intimate concerts featuring some of today’s most talented artists, at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAAC), 980 Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, on Friday, April 26 at 8:00 pm.

​​Tickets are $65.00 - $85.00 and Available at www.awaacc.org
 
From her eponymously-titled, double platinum debut album released in 1998 when she was only 18, Mýa has always been a triple threat of the first order. Her velvet, medium range vocals sizzle the most up-tempo groove, and soothe the tenderest ballad. Her comprehensive choreography encompasses everything from tap and Michael Jackson to modern dance, jazz and hip-hop and her compositions contain the right balance of tradition and the modernity of the present.
 
Those influences, along with her sparkling charisma – whether in concert or on film, television or the Broadway stage – are the driving forces behind her music. A sampling of Mýa’s singles includes “It’s All About Me” with Sisqó, “Movin On,” “My First Night with You,” My Love Is Like…Wo,” the Jay Dilla driven, “Fallen” and the LGBTQ+ anthem “Whatever Bitch.” Her cross-genre collaborations feature Pras of the Fugees and ODB of The Wu-Tang Clan on the upbeat “Ghetto Superstar,” “Girls Dem Suga” with Beenie Man and “Take Me There,” with Blackstreet. Mýa also worked with a wide variety of artists including Bounty Killer, Rod Temperton, Jay-Z, Common, Dionne Warwick and Gladys Knight.
 
In 2001, Mýa performed in a historic collaboration with Christine Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Pink, and Missy Elliott on their sensational hip-hop cover of LaBelle’s “Lady Marmalade,” which was included in Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge!. The song was the most successful airplay-only single in history, and it won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration. Mýa’s other albums include Fear of Flying, Moodring, Liberation, Sugar & Spice, Beauty and the Streets, K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy & Simple) and two EP’s, Smoove Jones and T.K.O. (The Knockout). Her latest single, Anytime, co-produced with her frequent collaborators MyGuyMars and Mike & Keys, was released in February 2024.
 
A native of Washington, D.C., Mýa, born Mýa Marie Harrison, grew up in a musical household. Her father sang, and her mother played records by Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway and many other soul and R&B artists. As a child, she studied many forms of dance including jazz, tap, and ballet, danced on BET’s Teen Summit, and released her first self-titled record in 1998. Over the years, Mýa would broaden her musical and personal horizons by becoming a record producer, an actress, model and philanthropist.  When Mýa comes to the Soul Sessions stage, she does so, not only as an accomplished artist, but as a well-rounded human being, who is by no means finished with her evolution.
 
AWAACC’s Soul Sessions series also has presented Kindred The Family Soul, Peabo Bryson, Angélique Kidjo, Meshell Ndegeocello.
 
Major support for AWAACC’s operations is provided by Richard King Mellon Foundation, Henry L. Hillman Foundation, Heinz Endowments, and the Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD). AWAACC’s programming is made possible by generous support from its donors. For a complete list, please visit awaacc.org.
 
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center is a non-profit cultural organization located in Pittsburgh’s cultural district that generates artistic, educational, and community initiatives that advance the legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. One of the largest cultural centers in the country focused exclusively on the African American experience and the celebration of Black culture and the African diaspora, the non-profit organization welcomes more than 119,000 visitors locally and nationally. Through year-round programming across multiple genres, such as the annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, Black Bottom Film Festival, AWCommunity Days, TRUTHSayers speaker series, and rotating art exhibits in its galleries, the Center provides a platform for established and emerging artists of color whose work reflects the universal issues of identity that Wilson tackled, and which still resonate today. www.awaacc.org.

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​PITTSBURGH, PA, March 28, 2024 – In honor of National Jazz Appreciation Month, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC) is sharing another opportunity to enjoy the 2023 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival (PIJF) during a special 48-hour presentation featuring highlights from Highmark Stadium on Friday, April 19, through Sunday, April 21, 2024, at 7:00 pm (EDT). To enjoy a second look or catch the festival for the first time, tune in FREE to https://pittsburghjazzfest.org, https://youtube.com/@pittsbughjazzfest,  via Facebook Live on https://www.facebook.com/pittsburghjazzfest or  https://facebook.com/jazzcorner.

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​NEWARK, NJ, March 21, 2024 – Celebrate 45 years of great music, interviews, news, history and more with WBGO 88.3 FM, Newark Public Radio, the global leader in jazz radio, on Friday, April 12, 2024, at Newark Symphony Hall, 1020 Broad Street. Meet and mingle with the station’s current and former hosts, board members, local politicians, special guests and patrons and then find a spot on the dance floor and let the rhythms take control.

The celebration begins with an opening VIP cocktail reception from 6:00 - 8:00 pm, with live music, a cake-cutting ceremony, hors d'oeuvres and an open bar. Tyreek McDole, the 24 year-old vocalist and only the second male singer to win the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition (2023), leads his quintet in a set of jazz standards highlighted by his bold, velvety voice. He has shared the stage with Gary Bartz, Theo Croker, Nicholas Payton, Johnny O’Neal, Emmet Cohen and numerous others, but he steps out front and center at this celebration to continue WBGO’s tradition of presenting the best and brightest rising stars to lead the way into the future.
 
The evening’s festivities continue with a dance party from 8:00 pm - midnight. Angélika Beener and DJ Prince Hakim will spin a diverse mix of moveable grooves. In addition to her DJ skills, Beener is a journalist, producer and host of the podcast series, Milestones: Celebrating the Culture, which airs in partnership with WBGO Studios. Hakim, the son of Robert “Kool” Bell of Kool & The Gang, has mastered turntables at the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee, Art Basel in Miami and New York City’s Sony Hall. With these two soulful and spirited DJs at the helm, guests should be prepared for an evening of non-stop dancing.
 
“We are excited and proud to remain the leading source for jazz for these 45 years, and we look forward to continuing to present the best in jazz, blues and news on-air, at live events and over the internet to listeners around the world for decades to come,” said WBGO President and CEO Steve Williams. “While our love and respect for the history of the music and the station grow stronger, we will always look ahead and be faithful to nurturing old and new music, the musicians and the art form.”     
                                                                                                           
Ticket Packages include: WBGO Members Special Prices
$100 VIP Reception + Dance Party
$45 Dance Party 2 for 1 (bring a friend and save)
$30 Dance Party single ticket
 
Non WBGO Members
$125 VIP Reception + Dance Party
$45 Dance Party single ticket
 
45th Anniversary Special Promotion: Tickets + WBGO Membership
$160 VIP Reception + Dance Party; for an additional $35 join as a WBGO Member for one year
$105 Dance Party for 2; for an additional $15 join as a WBGO Member for one year
 
For more information and to purchase tickets, log on to: wbgo.org/45BD.
 
Other 45th anniversary celebrations include a Digital Upfront to promote and discuss programs/podcasts to be held on April 25 for WBGO members and press, a party in Brooklyn with Felix Hernández on May 11 and a Birthday Benefit Dinner in New York City in early summer. More details and events will be announced later.
 
About WBGO 88.3
Founded on April 9,1979, by Robert G. Ottenhoff, a young Rutgers University communications specialist and jazz fan, WBGO is a publicly-supported cultural institution that preserves and elevates America’s music: jazz and blues. WBGO reaches a weekly audience of nearly 300,000 in the New York/New Jersey metro area via 88.3 FM. Through programs such as Rhythm Revue, Felix Hernández’s oldies-but-goodies R&B/soul show, and Jazz Night in America, produced in partnership with National Public Radio (NPR), Jazz at Lincoln Center and WBGO. From its position as content provider to NPR, WBGO’s reach extends to millions across the country. From its home base of Newark, New Jersey, Public Radio station WBGO has long been an anchor institution in community engagement through its partnerships, concerts, education and news programming. Through its informative and entertaining announcers, award-winning original arts programming, expansive educational and community outreach and pioneering jazz tourism, WBGO will continue to be “the jazz source” for years to come.
 
For more information, log on to https://www.wbgo.org
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McCann has created a fresh and soulful tribute that embodies Mahalia Jackson.  This concert celebrates not just her music, but her experiences and her contribution to the world. It showcases Ms. Jackson's signature tunes, original songs, and some wonderful arrangements. 
 
In addition to their love of God and spirit-filled voices, both Jackson and McCann traveled from the South, (Louisiana and Mississippi respectively) to make their homes in Chicago, where Thomas Dorsey created the modern gospel music sound. McCann again followed in Jackson’s footsteps when she took Jazzmobile’s SummerFest stage at Marcus Garvey Park (formerly Mt. Morris Park) where Mahalia Jackson performed at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, featured in the Questlove-directed documentary, Summer of Soul.
 
For McCann, her tribute is an evolution in progress that grew organically, while remaining true to its spiritual core. “I usually did the tribute with an organ and backup singers and a choir,” And then, a couple of years ago, right before the pandemic, I took my jazz rhythm section with me for my gospel tour to Italy and Switzerland. The music really blossomed. So that's what gave me the idea to see how far I can take this. How far can I push the boundaries and still feel like I'm residing in the sacred realm of Mahalia? And that's where Yes Mahalia! came from.”
 
McCann’s set list will include selections made famous by Jackson, and will also include compositions that suit the secular, as well as the sacred. Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho, Wade in the Water, Come Sunday, How I Got Over, Take My Hand, Precious Lord and others will be featured on Saturday’s program.
 
“To me, there is a synergy between the Mahalia Jackson sound, and the sonic energy that a big band brings to bear,” McCann says. “You have this voice that was so unique, so powerful, partnering with the sonic energy of a big band. I felt, why hasn't anybody done this before?”
 
For McCann, Jackson’s music also connects her to her family, and to her musical roots. “My affection for Mahalia Jackson stems from the influences of my grandmother and my mother,” McCann says. “They kept me connected and steeped in our family church, St. Paul Church of God in Christ in Chicago. So, her music was either coming from a record player or from the mouths of my mother and my grandmother. I was baptized in Mahalia Jackson’s music from an early age. Her music is particular … it is sacred, and for someone like me, who dwells in the secular realm, it is important to me that the listener recognizes that they have stepped into Mahalia’s realm; that this is a place of reverence.”
 
McCann has traveled to many spaces and places. She is a classically-trained vocalist and graduate of Chicago’s Kenwood Academy High School and went to Virginia Union University, where she heard Thelonious Monk. She moved back home and started gigging, when jazz masters Von and George Freeman took her under their wing. The fruits of McCann’s labor paid off when she was named Chicagoan of the Year in Jazz in 2020 by the Chicago Tribune.
 
With seven recordings as a leader, including her 2023 CD Do I Move You?, McCann has worked with numerous jazz stars including Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ramsey Lewis, Laurence Hobgood, and Von Freeman. McCann connects the sacred with the secular with one, swinging arc that traverses the past and the future. Former jazz critic Howard Reich of the Chicago Sun Times, wrote that McCann has, “a voice that soars in all registers, at all tempos, on all occasions…” and her biggest supporter, the late Stanley Crouch, proclaimed that McCann’s, “pitch is superb … clear on the top … startling at the bottom, while all the steps in between are polished with swing … I have not heard a voice like hers in decades.”
 
As her work with Mahalia Jackson aurally illustrates, Tammy McCann’s voice is an instrument, highly honed by years of craftsmanship in the spirit of Mahalia Jackson.
 
“To me, Mahalia is always set apart,” McCann says. “You always knew that she was a craftsman when she opened her mouth. And so, in my homage to her, I must also be a craftsman.”
 
For more information on Tammy McCann and her touring tribute, Yes Mahalia!, log on to http://www.tammymccann.com/.
 
 

Photo Credit: Mary Rafferty
Photo Caption: Vocalist Tammy McCann performs Mahalia Jackson tribute, Yes Mahalia!, at Hyde Park in Chicago.

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Photo Credit: Keith Rogers

Piano Donor Stuart Holland (seated, brown jacket/white shirt) was presented with a plaque to commemorate his generous donation. He is surrounded by members of his family as well as pianists Luther S. Allison and Danny Mixon (standing second and third from left) and Bertha Hope (seated right), Room 623 owner Adriane Ferguson (seated left), and club manager Marcus Goldhaber (standing third from right).

Joining McBride at the AWAACC will be Nicole Glover, saxophone; Ely Perlman, guitar; Mike King, piano; and Savannah Harris, drums.
 
McBride’s resume as a sideman is as wide and deep as his rich, bass tones. He’s worked with jazz greats Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis and pop, R&B and hip-hop icons Sting, James Brown and The Roots as well as with the avant-rock composer Laurie Anderson. McBride’s nearly 30 recordings as a leader run the jazz gamut, from the straight-ahead Number Two Express and his large ensemble/spoken word LP, The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons; from For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver, a big band celebration of organist Jimmy Smith, guitarist Wes Montgomery and bandleader/composer Oliver Nelson, to Prime, featuring a piano-less avant-garde quartet. Keep an eye out for the forthcoming duet album with bassist Edgar Meyer entitled But Who’s Gonna Play the Melody?
 
Born in 1972, McBride is the son of R&B bassist Lee Smith, and a graduate of the Philadelphia High School for the Performing Arts, which also included McBride’s classmates, drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of The Roots and organist Joey DeFrancesco. McBride moved to New York in 1989 to study at Juilliard but left about a year later to join saxophonist Bobby Watson’s Horizons. He boosted his jazz career with a group of talented musicians called the Young Lions, performing around the world and at the acclaimed Newport Jazz Festival, where he now serves as Artistic Director.
 
McBride also contributes to the music as a media host, spokesman, educator, programmer and social influencer. He is the Artistic Advisor for Jazz Programming at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), TD James Moody Jazz Festival, the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Summer Sessions and Jazz House KiDS, a nationally known community arts organization for young people, founded by his wife, vocalist Melissa Walker. McBride hosts NPR's Jazz Night in America and The Lowdown: Conversations with Christian, on SiriusXM satellite radio. He also spins records as DJ Brother Mister.
 
What McBride will bring to Pittsburgh is an exquisite evening of music that is fluent in the many languages of jazz he has not only mastered but loves to play.
 
Tickets are $60.00 here.
 
Major support for AWAACC’s operations is provided by Richard King Mellon Foundation, Henry L. Hillman Foundation, Heinz Endowments, and the Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD).  AWAACC’s programming is made possible by generous support from its donors. For a complete list, please visit awaacc.org.
 
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center is a non-profit cultural organization located in Pittsburgh’s cultural district that generates artistic, educational, and community initiatives that advance the legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. One of the largest cultural centers in the country focused exclusively on the African American experience and the celebration of Black culture and the African diaspora, the non-profit organization welcomes more than 119,000 visitors locally and nationally. Through year-round programming across multiple genres, such as the annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, Black Bottom Film Festival, AWCommunity Days, TRUTHSayers speaker series, and rotating art exhibits in its galleries, the Center provides a platform for established and emerging artists of color whose work reflects the universal issues of identity that Wilson tackled, and which still resonate today. www.awaacc.org.
 


 
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​CHARLOTTE, NC, February 8, 2024 – Blessed with a towering and tender tenor voice that is both down-home and up-South with a taste of Saturday night and Sunday morning, Georgia-born singer/trombonist Ray Greene, the voice of Santana and Tower of Power, kicks off his U.S. album release tour for Stay at the Stage Door Theater at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, 130 North Tryon Street, in Charlotte, NC, on Sunday, February 25, at 6:00 pm.

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PITTSBURGH, PA - February 8, 2024  — Following in the footsteps of Ashford & Simpson, Fatin Dantzler and Aja Graydon — better known as the Philadelphia-based, husband and wife duo, Kindred The Family Soul — AKA Kindred - brings their compelling songs, inspiring lyrics and jazzy, hip-hop friendly beats to Pittsburgh, performing in the latest edition of the  Soul Sessions series at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC), 980 Liberty Avenue, on February 14, 2024 at 8:00 pm. ​

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