BRIC House Sessions Presents Maimouna Youssef, April 2

BRIC, the pioneering Brooklyn arts and media institution, continues the 2020 season of BRIC House Sessions on April 2 with GRAMMY Award-nominated singer, songwriter, MC, and activist Maimouna Youssef (AKA Mumu Fresh). The evening starts at 8pm at BRIC House - one of the best spaces for live music in Brooklyn - with a performance by MC and poet KAMAUU.

Maimouna Youssef (AKA Mumu Fresh) stepped out on her own after years working as a sought-after backup singer for legends like The Roots, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and more. After a breakthrough performance on NPR's Tiny Desk and two independent solo albums, the Baltimore native has established herself as performer who creates deeply spiritual live performances. Ebony calls her a "chameleon-like soulstress [who] uses her experiences, insight, and personality to inform a generation-spanning base of her views on race, politics, gender, and class with an ever-inclusive tone and sound."

Washington D.C.-born, New York-based MC and poet KAMAUU is a quiet warrior making otherworldly music. After releasing his first full-length work, urth gold, on Atlantic Records and gaining notoriety from the likes of Okayplayer and fellow artists for his stunning visuals, KAMAUU has earned fans and followers while hard at work on new music. This year he released TheKAMAU-CASSETTE: MíXD GR?"?"NS, which weaves together threads of rap, reggae, soul, and even doo-wop. "I named it TheKAMAU-CASSETTE: MíXD GR?"?"NS because I feel green right now," he admits. "I feel fertile. I feel like things are growing from me. The seeds planted by my elders and experiences are on the brink of breaking the surface, and I'm excited."

The series continues later this spring with a concert from Black Belt Eagle Scout, the project of indigenous multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Katherine Paul, whom Pitchfork calls "the heiress of Geneviève Castrée and Courtney Love and Carrie Brownstein," joined this evening by singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Denitia (April 16). The series closes with Tribu Baharú, one of the leading Champeta groups from Colombia, with Brooklyn's newest Congolese guitar band, Loboko, opening (April 23).

The exhilarating concert series, held annually, brings the spirit of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival into the institution's Downtown Brooklyn headquarters through world-class performances on Thursday evenings. BRIC House Sessions draws its talent from a bold and eclectic array of musical genres, featuring both local treasures and internationally-renowned artists. The Ashland is a season Co-Sponsor.

Tickets may be purchased online at BRICartsmedia.org or via Eventbrite.com. The Box Office at BRIC House is open on performance days, one hour prior to the event. BRIC House is located at 647 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn.

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