Emeline Michel Comes To Brooklyn Center

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts continues its season on Saturday, March 4 with Haitian singer/songwriter Emeline Michel. Called “the Joni Mitchell of Haiti,” Ms. Michel has toured the globe both as a performer and in her role as a Red Cross Ambassador.
With “a voice serene and warm like the breeze” (The New York Times), she performs in both French and Haitian Creole, frequently addressing social issues with a deep caring and warmth for her native land. Tickets for the concert are $35.

In conjunction with the concert, Brooklyn Center will present “Voices of Haiti: Artists as Activists” on Thursday, March 2 at 6:30pm in the Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library. The panel discussion will include Ms. Michel along with acclaimed author Ibi Zoboi; Régine Roumain, Executive Director of Haiti Cultural Exchange; and Dr. Jean Eddy Saint Paul, founding Director of the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute. The panel is free, no reservations necessary.

Emeline Michel in concert is part of Brooklyn Center’s Con Edison Music Masters Series, which also includes Patti Austin: Ella Now and Then (April 22), the Yosvany Terry Afro-Cuban Sextet (May 6), and 10-time GRAMMY® winner Chaka Khan (May 13). Tickets and info at www.BrooklynCenter.org.

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