One of the biggest Thanksgiving parties will be at Domaine – 1150 Crescent Avenue – in Northeast Atlanta, GA tonight! This is a live hip-hop and RnB concert that will feature Sammie, Pleasure P, Xscape, Scrappy, Bobby V, Rasheeda and several others; with host DJ Aone.
The twenty-one and older event will start at 9pm, and is scheduled to run until 1am the following morning. Get tickets here.
Grammy-nominated and GMA Dove award-winning artist Jekalyn Carr has joined the long list of artists releasing new music for the holiday season. At the beginning of November she shared a single called Great Christmas, and followed up days later with its official video.
If you have not yet heard the song or seen the visuals, click here or on the image above to check it out and remember to like, comment and share.
At the beginning of November American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys released her 9th studio album; a Christmas record titled Santa Baby. The eleven-track project was published exclusively on Apple Music (iTunes), and it features four original songs and seven covers of popular Christmas carols.
Femme It Forward, in partnership with Live Nation, will present one of their Serenade shows this Friday, November 25th. Boyz II Men, Dru Hill and 112 will perform at Foxwoods Resort Casino’s Premier Theater – 39 Norwich Westerly Road – in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
The Serenade concert series was created to show that men celebrate women too. To that end, various male artists (Eric Benét, New Edition’s Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant, Morris Day, Donell Jones, Musiq Soulchild etc.) have been headlining several shows across the U.S. since the beginning of autumn.
The man that is being called the original pioneer of the independent movement in R&B and soul music – Eric Roberson – is selling out venues across the United States with a tour that supports his 17th studio album: Lessons. The upcoming dates, some of which have been completely sold out, are as follows:
Fri, NOV 18
Kennedy Center
Washington, DC
Sun, NOV 20
Music Box Supper Club
Cleveland, OH
Sat, NOV 26
The Ludlow Garage
Cincinnati, OH
Sun, NOV 27
Arena Theatre
Houston, TX
Fri, DEC 2
Blue Note Napa
Napa, CA
Fri, DEC 9
SOB’s
New York, NY
Sat, JAN 14, 2023
Community Excellence Gala
Memphis, TN
Sun, MAR 12, 2023
Sound Board Theater
Detroit, MI
On Friday, December 30, the Arena Theatre – in Houston, Texas – will present the smooth sultry sounds of Lalah Hathaway, who returns by popular demand. She will be joined by the soulful Kenny Lattimore and Avery Sunshine. This is a night of pure soul that’s schedule to begin at 8:30pm.
The Arena Theatre is conveniently located at 7326 Southwest Freeway (Hwy. 59). Tickets and additional information are available on the venue’s website.
For one night (Saturday, November 19), NJPAC’s City Verses program will unite the leading voices in jazz, hip-hop and poetry at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ.
The legendary lineup includes rap stars Rakim (Paid in Full), Speech (Arrested Development), Chuck D (Public Enemy), Black Thought (The Roots) and Dupré ‘DoItAll’ Kelly (Lords of The Underground); award-winning poets and spoken word performers Nikki Giovanni, Jessica Care Moore, Sean Battle, Mayor Ras Baraka and The Last Poets (Abiodun Oyewole, Umar Bin Hassan, Babadon Babatunde).
The program also includes jazz greats Ravi Coltrane and Javon Jackson; as well as musical director (and NJPAC jazz advisor) Christian McBride and A Christian McBride Situation. Get tickets here.
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