BloominGrass 2024 Night 2 – My Black Country: An Evening of Lyrics & Literature

IU Arts & Humanities has partnered with Bloomington Roots to offer you 2 free tickets to night 2 of BloominGrass on October 19! Use code ENJOY at checkout, and your ticket will be available at the Buskirk-Chumley on October 19.

Bloomington Roots welcomes Alice Randall, a New York Times best-selling novelist, award-winning songwriter, educator, and food activist. Her new memoir, My Black Country, celebrates the power of Black influences on country music. Joining Randall with a performance is multilingual singer/songwriter and founding member of Our Native Daughters and Carolina Chocolate Drops, Leyla McCalla, as well as LA-based street singer, guitarist, and roots music revolutionary Sunny War. Both McCalla and War appear on the accompanying album My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall. Opening the night will be Colorado songwriter Emily Scott Robinson.