Leyla McCalla's 'Sun Without the Heat' (Listening Party)

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Apr 11, 2024

Classical and folk musician Leyla McCalla's latest album features songs inspired by tropical Brazilian sounds, afrobeat and Ethiopian folk sounds. It's titled Sun Without the Heat, a literary reference to Frederick Douglass's 1857 speech to mostly white abolitionists six years before the Emancipation Proclamation. She joins us for a listening party ahead of her performance at Joe's Pub tomorrow at 7 p.m. McCalla was a cellist with the Grammy Award-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops before pursuing a solo career.

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