The OnBeat Sessions: Leyla McCalla

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Leyla McCalla navigates her Haitian identity in multimedia production

A woman twists and gyrates, seemingly deep in a trance, silhouetted behind a screen on which images of other ceremonial dancers are projected. She emerges onto a dark stage and […]

Cover Club, November 2020 (Leyla McCalla)

The Cover Club offers the month’s current issue printed on canvas so you can hang your favorite OffBeat magazine covers on the walls of your home! We offer 11×14 or 16×20 prints. The Cover Club applies ONLY to the current issue of OffBeat Magazine and is available for order through the final day of the current issue’s respective month (except for the Jazz Fest Bible issue, which is available until the final date of the respective year’s Jazz Fest).

This month, get our November 2020 issue featuring Leyla McCalla on the cover! Available through November 30.

The Vari-Colored Songs of Leyla McCalla

For Leyla McCalla, history is a living thing that ties us to the past “I always imagine if I could have met Langston Hughes that we probably have similar personality […]

Tank, Leyla McCalla, Pell + more enlist for Music for Mental Health

Now in its fourth year, the annual Music for Mental Health Benefit Concert features its biggest performance lineup yet. On September 26, New Orleans musicians Tarriona “Tank” Ball (of Tank […]

Leyla McCalla, The Capitalist Blues (Jazz Village)

Leyla McCalla’s third solo release The Capitalist Blues is remarkable in terms of ambition, scale, and realization. Whereas her first efforts focused on her solo work and small cello ensembles, […]

Leyla McCalla scheduled to perform The Capitalist Blues at Music Box Village

Leyla McCalla is tired of a world that tells its inhabitants to be more while simultaneously undermining its own messages of peace and equality, but where others may have despaired, […]

Leyla McCalla Talks Back

“You keep telling me to climb this ladder. I’ve got to pay my dues. But as I rise the stakes get higher. I’ve got the capitalist blues. When I give […]

Leyla McCalla to Play Midnight Show at Preservation Hall

Multi-instrumentalist and multi-lingual singer Leyla McCalla will head to Preservation Hall for a midnight show on the night of Saturday, September 24. A former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, […]

Leyla McCalla talks back

Leyla McCalla, a singing, songwriting cellist and former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, once aspired to being a classical musician laboring in the rarified world of chamber music. She […]