From the good folks at the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) :

RALEIGH — Summer concerts and movies have been a North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) tradition for two decades, and we’re excited to launch another season of great music and entertainment. Our venue—the Joseph M. Bryan, Jr., Theater in the Museum Park—is situated in the heart of the Museum campus amid gardens, meadows, woodlands, and sculpture.

Presented with Cat’s Cradle, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes will perform at 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 26. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Nü Mangos will open the show.

As the frontwoman and guitarist for Alabama Shakes, Howard has become one of music’s most celebrated figures. The band has won four Grammys (out of nine nominations), and she has performed everywhere from the Obama White House to the main stage at Lollapalooza, where she sang with Paul McCartney at his invitation. For her solo debut, Jaime, Howard boldly decided to explore new directions, with diverse instrumentation and arrangements and intimate, revelatory lyrics. Her unique artistry on the album’s opening track, “History Repeats,” earned her two Grammy nominations this year, for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance.

Howard was inspired by traveling across the United States, where she “saw beautiful things and heartbreaking things: poverty, loneliness, discouraged people, empty and poor towns.” She decided that she wanted her solo work to “help others feel a bit better about being” and to guide people toward self-love “as if it were an act of resistance.” Howard concludes, “It’s scary to mess with success, because the Shakes are doing so good. But I needed to shake it up—and if you’re going to do that, you better go all out and make it worth it.”

“Howard’s unorthodox fusion of acidic synth triplets, rapid drum fills, and her heavily filtered speaking is as energizing and out-of-body as the most fervent of Sunday services.”—Max Freedman, Paste

2020 Summer Concerts

• Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes – Sunday, April 26 | 8 PM