New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Leyla McCalla's sophomore release 'A Day For The Hunter, A Day For The Prey' (Jazz Village/Harmonia Mundi) comes out tomorrow and is being met with raves. Leyla will be featured on NPR's Weekend Edition this weekend and has been profiled by a host of outlets ranging from Billboard and Afropunk to Amy Poehler's Smart Girls. Leyla and her band launch an international summer and fall tour this week with many new dates announced including performances in New York and LA this fall.
This new album from the multi-instrumentalist, multi-lingual singer and former Carolina Chocolate Drop is a swirling mix of originals and interpretations of songs from deep within the canons of Haitian, Cajun, Creole, jazz and folk music. It depicts a deeply personal and diverse American experience as lived by Leyla as a Haitian American residing in New Orleans. It features guest appearances by Rhiannon Giddens, Marc Ribot, Louis Michot of Lost Bayou Ramblers, her husband
Daniel Tremblay and others.
Watch a short film on the making of the album here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyk7wI5q60o
Raves for 'A Day For The Hunter, A Day For The Prey':
"An exhilarating thing, hearing a musical virtuoso explore her voice's unanticipated potential in all of the ways that Leyla McCalla does" - NPR Music
"[Leyla] sounds right at home on the curvy contours of tunes rooted in the Southern Louisiana prairies" - KPCC
"Rich with big thoughts" - USA Today
"Expansive and irresistible" - WNYC Soundcheck
"McCalla's approach twists the cello's low, luscious timbre to produce a different, but equally physical, effect on the listener" - Bluegrass Situation
"An invigorating blend of Haitian folk songs and American old-time music" - Downbeat
"Mesmerizing" - Associated Press
Tour Dates:
5.27 - Washington, DC - Smithsonian's
National Portrait Gallery
6.8 - Durham, NC - Duke Gardens
6.9 - Floyd, VA - Floyd Country Store
6.10 - Dallas, NC - Gaston County Museum of Art & History
6.11 - Worthington, OH - Natalie's Coal Fired
Pizza and Live Music
6.12 - Nashville, IN - Pine Room - Muddy Boots
6.13 - Chicago, IL -
Millennium Park
6.14 - Des Moines, IA - Des Moines Social Club
6.16 - Minneapolis, MN - Dakota Jazz Club
6.17 - Cedar Rapids, IA - CSPS
6.18 - Kansas City, MO - Knuckleheads
6.19 - Tulsa, OK - Guthrie Green
7.16 - Nice, France - Nice Jazz Festival
7.19 - Bordeaux, France - Relache Festival
7.23 - Le Havre, France - Festival Mozaique
7.24 - Chalons, France - Festival Des Musiques D'Ici Et D'Ailleurs
7.25 - Luzern, Switzerland - Blue Balls Festival
7.26 & 7.27 - Paris, France - Duc Des Lombards
7.28 - Moureze, France - Festival De Moureze
7.30 - Cambridge, UK - Cambridge Folk Festival
8.25 - Gardiner, MT - Yellowstone
National Park
8.26 - Baltimore, MD - Creative Alliance @ The Patterson
8.27 -
Black Mountain, NC - Jam in the Trees
9.15 - New York, NY - Joe's Pub
9.16 - Northampton, MA - Parlor Room
9.17 - Providence, RI - Columbus Theater
10.1 - Columbia, TN - Muletown
Music Festival
10.4 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Café
10.5 - New Haven, CT - Café Nine
10.6 - Concord, NH - The Capitol Center for the Arts
10.7 - Somerville, MA - Davis
Square Theatre
10.8 - Hunter, NY - Catskill Mountain Foundation Doctorow Center for the Arts
10.14 -
Santa Monica, CA - McCabe's Guitar Shop
10.15 - San Diego, CA - AMSD Concerts
10.18 - Felton, CA - Don Quixote's
10.19 - Berkeley, CA - Freight and Salvage
10.21 - Eugene, OR - Sam Bond's Garage
10.22 - Seattle, WA - Fremont Abbey Arts Center
10.23 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
11.3 -
Little Rock, AK - South on Main
11.9 - Fontenay-Saint-Pere, France - Bues Sur Seine
11.11 - Fribourg, Switzerland - La Spirale
11.15 - Escautpont, France - Salle Jean Ferrat
11.16 - L'Aigle, France - Jazz en Ouche
11.17 - Lognes, France - Eglise
11.18 - Ile de Re, France - La Maline
11.19 - Cauteleu, France - Espace Culturel Francois Mitterand
11.20 - Villages en Scene - Salle de La Pree
11.22 - Nantes, France -
La Bouche D'Air
11.24 - Rennes, France - La Peniche Spectacle
