Obie and Bessie Award-winning performance artist Cynthia Hopkins and her band Gloria Deluxe will present “Must Don’t Whip ’Um” Nov. 10 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Obie and Bessie Award-winning performance artist Cynthia Hopkins and her band Gloria Deluxe will present “Must Don’t Whip ’Um” Nov. 10 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hopkins weaves live action, videos and documentary footage into a high-spirited blend of alt-country, garage rock, honky-tonk, cabaret and Southern soul.
The piece will be performed at 8 p.m. in the Beasley-Curtis Auditorium at Memorial Hall, opening Carolina Performing Arts’ 2007-08 experimental series Urban Voices.
“Cynthia Hopkins combines compelling storytelling, haunting surrealism and virtuosic musicianship in this engaging performance,” said Emil Kang, UNC’s executive director for the arts.
In “Must Don’t Whip ’Um,” Hopkins and her band act out a fictional tale about Ms. Cameron Seymour – neurologist, amnesiac, identity thief and Sufi – who disappears mysteriously during an ecstatic farewell concert; it is a woman’s escape from her circumstances.
Iranian-American sufi/psychedelic rock singer/songwriter Haale will continue the Urban Voices series on March 19, followed by Bang on a Can Marathon on April 12. The marathon features Wilco’s Glen Kotche, commissioned music by Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, and Burmese drumming sensation Kyaw Kyaw Naing.
Tickets for “Must Don’t Whip ’Um” are available online at www.carolinaperformingarts.org, by calling (919) 843-3333 and at the Memorial Hall Box Office on Cameron Avenue, open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays. Tickets are $10 for Carolina students and $20 for others. Tickets for all other performances in the 2007-08 Carolina Performing Arts season also are on sale now.
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Carolina Performing Arts contact: Harry Kaplowitz, (919) 843-3119, hkaplowitz@unc.edu
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