Leyla McCalla didn’t intend to make a “protest album.” On her previous two albums, McCalla’s gentle voice floats alongside her cello, a vessel for her plucked folk-poetry and Haitian music, a ...

Each year, the International Folk Music Awards — a program of Folk Alliance International — gives the People’s Voice Award to a community member who “unabashedly embraces social and political ...

"How much does a memory weigh?" Leyla McCalla sings halfway through her Tiny Desk performance in a voice that feels like it's floating in water – swimming, drowning, escaping, returning home – as it ...

Anders Osborne opened his set Saturday on the Festival Stage with the hard driving, psychedelic tinged “Different Drum,” ...

After a pair of albums on which New York-born Leyla McCalla accompanied herself on her trademark instrument, "The Capitalist Blues" finds her on the tenor banjo and electric guitar, deepening her ...

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For Leyla McCalla's 17th birthday, her father gave her a book of Langston Hughes' poetry. McCalla, a multi-instrumentalist and classically trained cellist, bought anthologies of his work and read any ...

McCalla Raymer's Atlanta headquarters in Roswell, Georgia. Photo: John Disney/Daily Report[/caption] Atlanta-based real estate closing and foreclosure firm McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce has expanded ...

Haitian-American artist Leyla McCalla draws upon her experience as a bilingual multi-instrumentalist and New Orleans resident to create distinctive music that reflects both her past and present. Today ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are many ways to break a thermometer, whether careless or deliberate, turning up the heat until the ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Leyla McCalla at the South by Southwest festival about her latest album, The Capitalist Blues. We're going to stay in Austin a little longer to bring you some new music ...