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Podcast: The Show On The Road with Z. Lupetin
Episode: Leyla McCalla
Description: This week a conversation with Leyla McCalla, a talented multi-lingual cellist, banjoist, and singer/songwriter.
Born in New York, raised in New Jersey, and McCalla is now based in New Orleans, where she raises three kids (she often tours with them in tow). McCalla often honors her Haitian heritage, bringing listeners into a vibrant world of Creole rhythms and forgotten African string-band traditions by introducing them to a new audience with her own powerful creative vision.
You may know McCalla as an integral part of two different roots supergroups: the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Our Native Daughters. But for much...