[DID NOT ATTEND: September 23, 2022] Yola / Peter One [rescheduled from February 15]
I has seen Yola on TV and her live presence (and her voice) were incredible. I don’t know a ton of her songs, but the ones I knew I liked a lot.
I thought it would be fun to see her live. Her February show was postponed to September.
And was rescheduled for the same date as my Saucerful of Secrets show. Which I was not going to miss.
So I have yet to see Yola. Or Brooklyn Bowl.
Jac Ross was supposed to open, but I didn’t like him. I was happy that he was replaced by Peter One whose story is really interesting.
Singer-songwriter Peter One left his home in Côte D’Ivoire in 1995 amid rising political unrest in the West African country that eventually boiled over into two civil wars in the 2000s. His life in the United States began in New York and then Delaware, before landing in Nashville, where he now lives. Along the way, he found community with fellow displaced Ivorians, including a friend who inspired a song from Peter One’s first new release in more than 30 years.
Peter One plays a kind of country-folk but with a West African twist that makes it sound fresh.
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