Ranky Tanky with Lisa Fischer

Celebrate Juneteenth and the final day of the 2023 Madison Jazz Festival with jazz-influenced arrangements of traditional Gullah music performed by two-time Grammy-winning Ranky Tanky and featured singer from Oscar-winning film “20 Feet from Stardom” Lisa Fischer.

• Lisa Fischer, Guest Vocalist
• Quentin Baxter, Drums and Percussion
• Kevin Hamilton, Bass
• Quiana Parler, Vocalist
• Clay Ross, Guitar and Vocals
• Charlton Singleton, Trumpet and Vocals

Singer Lisa Fischer is known for her remarkable vocal range and vocabulary, singing soul, jazz, rock, gospel, pop, folk and classical with equal facility and authority.

Ranky Tanky, a two-time Grammy Award winning, Charleston, SC-based quintet, performs timeless music born from the Gullah culture of the southeastern Sea Islands. Their debut album was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and the TODAY show. It also soared to the #1 position on the Billboard, Amazon, and iTunes Jazz Charts. Playful game songs, ecstatic shouts, and heartbreaking spirituals can all be found on their latest release, Good Time, which also offers the groups first original songs inspired by Gullah tradition.