Meshell Ndegeocello

2020 Addison Street,Berkeley CA 94704

17 February, 2021

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Meshell Ndegeocello American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and vocalist ALL AGES Meshell Ndegeocello Meshell Ndegeocello THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED***TICKETHOLDERS: SEE YOUR EMAIL FOR OPTIONS or contact us by email. If you are able, we encourage you to consider converting your ticket purchase to a tax-deductible donation to The Freight, which will help our non-profit organization continue to thrive and pay artists. We simply cannot survive without donations. There are albums dedicated to personal pain, or political protest, love, death, nostalgia, rage. There are those that are simply fun, glossy, the soundtrack to a good time. Some are exploratory, a musical journey, shapeshifting soundmaking, a new way to do an old thing. An artist can make a choice about concept and content, or heed a vision, follow their muse or their manager. But in times so extreme and overwhelming, when there is no known expression for the feeling, no satisfactory direction for art or action, then they might take refuge in a process, a ritual, something familiar, the shape and sound of which recall another time altogether, so that they can weather the present long enough to call it the past. Some albums are testimony, some confessions, and some are escape. “Ventriloquism”, the latest album from Meshell Ndegeocello, is a place, like its process, to take refuge from one storm too many. “Early on in my career, I was told to make the same kind of album again and again, and when I didn’t do that, I lost support. There isn’t much diversity within genres, which are ghettoizing themselves, and I liked the idea of turning hits I loved into something even just a little less familiar or formulaic. It was an opportunity to pay a new kind of tribute.” Website | Facebook Youth/Student discount tickets are available by using the access code: STUDENT. Meshell Ndegeocello