Langston Hughes Boogies Back From The Dead
What do you get when you cross the words of Langston Hughes, moody Creole cello melodies, and the New Orleans-Haiti connection? In Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes, Layla McCalla puts music to the Langston Hughes’s poems that first inspired her to take up the cello while growing up in New York and Jersey. Who is Layla McCalla? She is to the Cello as the fiddle is to the violin. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Layla McCalla made her way to New Orleans in 2010. In the Crescent City she busked by playing Baroque pieces (on Royal Street, across …