Shana Tucker
Wednesday, April 15 at 7:30pm
Experience an intimate acoustic evening "in the round" featuring renowned Vocalist, Cellist and Storyteller, SHANA TUCKER. You’ll sit amongst only 100 patrons for a face-to-face performance of Shana’s unique genre of Chamber Soul, which weaves jazz, roots, folk, acoustic pop and a touch of R&B into melodies that echo in your head for days. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience Shana’s artistry in a way unlike any other in eastern North Carolina. Shana will be joined by pianist Christian Tamburr.
SHANA TUCKER | Vocals, Cellist. Singer-Songwriter. Arts Advocate. Teaching Artist. Collaborator. Cultural Conduit.
In each role, Shana Tucker is a builder-of-connections, whether she’s associating STEM concepts with backbeats or engaging a packed house through candid song storytelling in performance. Shana's unique genre of Chamber Soul weaves jazz, roots, folk, acoustic pop, and a touch of R&B into melodies that echo in your head for days. A sought-after collaborator, Shana performs and records with legendary jazz saxophonist/composer Bennie Maupin, jazz flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell, Grammy nominated NuSoul collective, The Foreign Exchange and countless others. President Barack Obama recently released his “2022 Summer Playlist” and listed the song “Better” by the Foreign Exchange featuring Shana Tucker as recommended listening. Recent North Carolina dance/cello collaborations include When We Were Queens, a commissioned duo deep-dive into the realities of woman artists of color and how they navigate their creative, cultural, historic and present-day existence in the South while collecting and retelling the “body stories” of their lives and their African Diasporic legacies (premiering Fall 2023);They Are All, an exploration of living with Parkinson’s Disease, presented at American Dance Festival 2019 with Culture Mill; Continuing To Tell, a multidisciplinary public-space performance presented by Proxemic Media that highlights the history of Civil Rights in Durham, NC; and Noulaby Gaspard Louis, a celebration of tactile reunions in the wake of a protracted pandemic, premiering September 2022. A front-line advocate for arts education, Shana is an accomplished teaching artist, with over 20 years’ experience with community engagement, workshops, lesson planning and artist residency facilitation. She appeared as “Ms. Shana” on PBSNC -Rootle TV’s Block Party LIVE @ Home for a full 2022-23 season.