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Lensic and Outpost Productions present
New Mexico Jazz Festival
Ranky Tanky w/ Lisa Fischer, September 12, 2024 7:30 PM
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September 12, 2024 7:30 PM
Name
Lensic and Outpost Productions present
New Mexico Jazz Festival
Ranky Tanky w/ Lisa Fischer
Description
The soulful songs of the Gullah culture are brought to life by this band of native South Carolinians who mix the low country traditions with large doses of jazz, gospel, funk, and R&B. Grammy-winning powerhouse vocalist ?Lisa Fischer?(20 Feet From Stardom) adds her remarkable versatility and wide-ranging vocal power.
Ranky Tanky's debut album was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and the TODAY show and soared to the #1 position on the Billboard, Amazon, and iTunes Jazz Charts. Their latest release, Good Time, features playful game songs, ecstatic shouts, heartbreaking spirituals, and the group’s first original songs inspired by Gullah tradition.
A “master shapeshifter,” Brooklyn native Lisa Fischer has taken her rightful place among America’s greatest vocalists “whether she’s stretching out in an intimate duo with jazz piano maestro Taylor Eigsti, raising the roof with Ranky Tanky, creating luminous soundscapes onstage with the dancers of Alonzo King LINES Ballet, or following her uninhibited muse with her trio Grand Baton and their organic fusion of Caribbean psychedelic soul and jazzy progressive rock.” She spent much of her career as an elite backup singer for artists such as Luther Vandross, the Rolling Stones, Sting, Tina Turner, and Nine Inch Nails, among others. After she was featured in the Oscar-winning 2013 documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, Fischer experienced a course-changing epiphany, realizing she could start defining her own musical path.