Laurie Lewis, Linda Tillery & Barbara Higbie
Three extraordinary women musicians, Barbara Higbie, Linda Tillery, and Laurie Lewis will combine their talents to explore the musical traditions of the American South on Saturday, March 21 at 8 p.m. at Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street in Berkeley, CA.
Tickets are available online through TicketFly.
The performance will embrace both Appalachian and African American roots music from bluegrass to the blues – from the hills to the hollers.
Barbara Higbie is a master of piano and fiddle who has been nominated for a Grammy award, won Bammy awards, performed on more than 65 albums, and released four solo albums, as well as two albums with Teresa Trull and three with Montreux, the band she co-founded with Darol Anger.
Linda Tillery first came to prominence as the lead singer in San Francisco group The Loading Zone in 1968. Over the years she has released solo albums, performed as a drummer as well as a singer, produced albums and collaborated with many prominent musicians. She was a founding member of Bobby McFerrin’s vocal ensemble, Voicestra.
In 1992 Tillery created the Cultural Heritage Choir, a Grammy-nominated, percussion driven, vocal ensemble whose mission is to preserve and share the musical traditions of African American roots music. Their music is rooted in the deep south and strongly connected to their West African and Caribbean origins. Through stick, song, dance and story, the Cultural Heritage Choir transports the audience to a place in time when the roots of American popular music, were just being established by the “involuntary immigrants” from Africa’s western regions.
Laurie Lewis has won the International Bluegrass Music Association award for Female Vocalist of the Year multiple times, as well as a Grammy for her contribution to True Life Blues: the Songs of Bill Monroe. Lewis has recorded more than 20 albums – with the Good Ol’ Persons, Grant Street, Kathy Kallick, Tom Rozum, and her current band Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, as well as several solo projects. She is now working with many talented new artists, helping them find their way in the recording business.