Friday Night! Kick the new year off right with a full evening of soulful, heartfelt jams by some of Richmond’s most talented artists.
Kenneka Cook
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Local jazz singer Kenneka Cook has been steadily priming Richmond audiences for her debut album Moonchild over the past few weeks, due out Feb. 23 via American Paradox Records. With appearances on RVA Track and an opening spot for last week’s Waxahatchee concert at Capital Ale House, Cook chose RVA Magazine to premiere the first forthcoming, standalone single, “Don’t Ask Me.”
Featuring help from several other local live musicians, Moonchild not only pays homage to the artists actively performing music arts within the city, but invites them to progress and evolve Cook’s sound. The album consists of Cook-originals and Cook-covers, like a rendition of Vampire Weekend’s “The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance.”
In a makeshift recording studio right inside her producer and engineer Scott Lane’s living room, Cook took three diligent months to record Moonchild with help from Devonne Harris (piano/Butcher Brown), Kelli Strawbridge (drums/Kings), Caleb Knight (drums/Sammi Lanzetta), Chris Speasmaker (piano/The Congress), Andrew Sisk (drums/Angelica Garcia), Marcus Tenney (trumpet/Foxygen), Russell Lacy (guitar/Mikrowaves), Sid Kingsley (saxophone/Sid Kingsley), and Jared Pool (mandolin/Larry Keel).
-RvaMagazine
Calvin Brown
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