Esperanza Spalding Presents: Emily’s D+Evolution! New project combines pop songs with poetry, narrative & performance art – April 24

unnamed-3Now celebrating its 10th Anniversary Season, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is proud to present the return of ESPERANZA SPALDING and her newest project EMILY’S D+EVOLUTION. As part of the Center’s Live at Knight Series, the Grammy Award-winning singer-composer-bassist, along with her band, will wow fans with a performance featuring all-new material on April 24 in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall.

Tickets to EMILY’S D+EVOLUTION are $52, $62 and $82*, and are on sale now. All ticket buyers will receive a free digital download of the new Emily’s D+Evolution album. Tickets may be purchased at the Adrienne Arsht Center box office by calling (305) 949-6722, or online at www.arshtcenter.org.

Rekindling her childhood interest in theater, poetry and movement, Esperanza Spalding’s EMILY’S D+EVOLUTION delves into a broader concept of performance which includes video projections as well as a stirring live band.

“Emily is my middle name, and I’m using this fresh persona as my inner navigator. This project is about going back and reclaiming uncultivated curiosity, and using it as a compass to move forward and expand,” says Spalding. “My hope for this group is to create a world around each song, there are a lot of juicy themes and stories in the music. We will be staging the songs as much as we play them, using characters, video, and the movement of our bodies.”

The idea of EMILY’S D+EVOLUTION was originally conceived the day before Spalding’s birthday (October 18) during a “sleepless night of full moon inspiration.” The performance “unfolds as live musical vignettes,” she adds.

From her early years to current success as a creative musician, Esperanza Spalding has charted her own course. The young artist has blazed unmarked territory, garnering a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2011 which made her the first jazz artist to win the award.

Spalding has already reached numerous developments in her career. Her journey as a solo artist began with the 2006 release of Junjo, followed by her 2008 international debut recording of Esperanza, quickly topping Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Chart and becoming that year’s best-selling jazz album worldwide.

Numerous awards and appearances followed, including an invitation by President Barack Obama to appear at both the White House and the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, performing at the 84th Academy Awards, and an appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman” that found Letterman and bandleader Paul Shaffer proclaiming the young musician as the “coolest” guest in the program’s three-decade history.

Maintaining her lifelong passion for new sounds and uncharted territory, her albums Chamber Music Society and Radio Music Society have topped international music charts and gained multiple awards and Grammys. In her ongoing commitment to innovate and make the unprecedented her norm, Spalding brings with her the ever-expanding collage of art and music, along with support for education, social issues, and literature.

For more information, please visit: www.esperanzaspalding.com.

Support for the Live at Knight Series is provided by Wells Fargo.

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