{"id":27982,"date":"2024-08-25T05:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T09:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=27982"},"modified":"2024-08-20T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T12:39:12","slug":"preview-music-to-your-ears-the-music-of-nina-simone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/25\/preview-music-to-your-ears-the-music-of-nina-simone\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Music to Your Ears: The Music of Nina Simone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21436\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21436\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21436\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nina_georges_braunschweig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nina_georges_braunschweig.jpg 550w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nina_georges_braunschweig-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Georges Braunschweig, courtesy BMG<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nina Simone is trending. More than two decades after her death, the Tryon, N.C.-born musician, vocalist, songwriter and civil rights activist is as popular as ever. In 2020, the Nina Simone Project launched a fundraising campaign to establish an official Nina Simone Archive in Tryon. In 2021, a cache of previously-unreleased concert recordings was released as the two-disc <i>Nina Simone: The Montreux Years<\/i>. That same year, Simone\u2019s debut LP, <i>Little Girl Blue<\/i> received a vinyl reissue. Simone\u2019s stunning performance at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival is a major highlight of Questlove\u2019s acclaimed <i>Summer of Soul<\/i> film. And multiple Grammy Award nominee Ledisi paid tribute to Simone with 2021\u2019s <i>Ledisi Sings Nina<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>For the September installment of the popular Music to Your Ears discussion series, host\/moderator Bill Kopp welcomes special co-host Andrew Fletcher. A Tryon native himself and one of Asheville&#8217;s first-call musicians, Fletcher is well known for his work with the Firecracker Jazz Band and other projects. The two will lead a discussion of Nina Simone\u2019s life and music, spin some of her recordings, and Andrew Fletcher will take to the keyboard to play songs from Simone\u2019s acclaimed and influential body of work.<\/p>\n<p><b>WHAT<\/b>: Music to Your Ears Discussion Series: The Music of Nina Simone<br \/>\n<b>WHO<\/b>: Live music and discussion led by music journalist\/author Bill Kopp with co-host Andrew Fletcher<br \/>\n<b>WHERE<\/b>: Asheville Guitar Bar, 122 Riverside Dr., Suite D, Asheville<br \/>\n<b>WHEN<\/b>: Wednesday, September 4, 7 p.m. &#8211; 8:30 p.m. (doors open 6:30) $10 at the door \/ SEATING IS LIMITED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nina Simone is trending. More than two decades after her death, the Tryon, N.C.-born musician, vocalist, songwriter and civil rights activist is as popular as ever. 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