TRIBUTE| Mahogany Soul presents Who Runs The World? A Tribute To Female Groups from 1970 to Today
w/ Aisha Kenyetta, Christian Smalls, Zandrina Dunning and Essence Geddis
Fri. May 18
8:30 p.m.
$15-$40
Charleston Music Hall
This is a far more sweeping concept than most “tribute” shows, which tend to focus on one artist or one era. Backed by a seven-piece band complete with a horn section, four ace vocalists, Christian Smalls, Zandrina Dunning, Essence Geddis and Aisha Kenyetta, run through a series of classic hits and vocal-gymnastics-filled showstoppers from nearly 50 years of great female groups, from LaBelle and The Emotions to En Vogue and TLC. The singers cover an interesting array of styles in their own right, which should make for an explosive combination when they’re onstage together. Kenyetta has been featured with the Charleston Jazz Orchestra, Smalls is an award-winning alto singer who excels at funk and soul (both with local groups The Secrets and Darrell Ravenel & Friends and national acts like the Average White Band), Geddis is a graduate of The School of the Arts of Charleston’s Vocal Music program, and Dunning has performed with an array of stars like George Benson, Darius Rucker and Elise Testone. Vincent Harris FRIDAY
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