JAN 4-7 | Ms. Lisa Fischer w/ Ranky Tanky
Jan 04 - Jan 07, 2024
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
“Hers is a voice so big and so spine-tinglingly beautiful that on a nightly basis it does the near impossible” (The Guardian). Two-time GRAMMY winner Lisa Fischer joins Gullah groovemasters Ranky Tanky for an incendiary reprise of their sold out 2022 residency.
Known far and wide for her powerhouse vocals and prominent role in director Morgan Neville’s Oscar-winning 2013 music documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, Fischer won a GRAMMY for her #1 charting R&B single “How Can I Ease the Pain” and has toured for over two decades with the Rolling Stones, belting out “Gimme Shelter” to astonished audiences around the world. She’s contributed her soaring instrument to innumerable film soundtracks and performances alongside Luther Vandross, Tina Turner, Gregory Porter, Chris Botti, Sting, and industrial rock juggernaut Nine Inch Nails.
The soulful songs of the Gullah culture are brought to life by Ranky Tanky — a band of native South Carolinians who mix the low country traditions with large doses of jazz, gospel, funk, and R&B. Originally working together as an in-demand jazz quartet on the Charleston scene, the group named for the Gullah/Geechee phrase meaning “Get Funky!” added the dynamic vocalist Quiana Parler to celebrate the bone-deep mix of spirituals and gutbucket blues that marks the low country mainland and Sea Islands.
Two-time GRAMMY winner Lisa Fischer joins Gullah groovemasters Ranky Tanky for an incendiary reprise of their sold out 2022 residency.
Lively, soulful honey to the ears
NPR
Lively, soulful honey to the ears
NPR
Personnel
Lisa Fischer vocals
Quiana Parler vocals
Charlton Singleton trumpet, vocals
Clay Ross guitar, vocals
Kevin Hamilton bass
Quentin Baxter drums
If transcendence were a musical genre, Lisa Fischer would be its Queen.
PopMatters
Personnel
Lisa Fischer vocals
Quiana Parler vocals
Charlton Singleton trumpet, vocals
Clay Ross guitar, vocals
Kevin Hamilton bass
Quentin Baxter drums
If transcendence were a musical genre, Lisa Fischer would be its Queen.
PopMatters
Watch & Listen
Ranky Tanky
Stand by Me
Ms. Lisa Fischer
How Can I Ease The Pain
Ranky Tanky
Stand by Me
Ms. Lisa Fischer
How Can I Ease The Pain