Wednesday and Thursday at the Highmark Amphitheater in Station Square

Wednesday lineup:

5-6pm — Ranky Tanky is the 2020 Grammy Award winner for Best Regional Roots Album, is a Charleston-based quintet that focuses on the music born from the Gullah culture of the southeastern Sea Islands. Playful game songs, ecstatic shouts, and heartbreaking spirituals can all be found on their latest release “Good Time,” which also offers the group’s first original songs inspired by Gullah tradition.

6:15-7:15pm — Fantastic Negrito is a an American singer-songwriter whose music spans blues, R&B, and roots music. His 2016, 2019, and 2020 all albums received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. His latest album, “White Jesus Black Problems,” is an ode to the power of family and the enduring resilience of shared humanity

7:30-8:30pm — Walter "Wolfman" Washington is an American singer and guitarist who has been a mainstay in the New Orleans music scene since the early 1960s. He began his career backing up some of New Orleans most acclaimed performers, including Lee Dorsey, Johnny Adams, and Irma Thomas before putting together his long-time band The Roadmasters in the 1980s, who have been performing on national stages ever since.

8:45-10:15 — Ruthie Foster & Shemekia Copeland:

Ruthie Foster is an award-winning singer/songwriter, hails from the tightly knit musical community of Austin, Texas. She has duetted with Bonnie Raitt, the Allman Brothers, and has traded verses with Susan Tedeschi. Drawing influence from legendary acts like Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin, Foster developed a unique sound unable to be contained within a single genre, with some describing it as “some folk, some blues, some soul, some rock, some gospel.”

Shemekia Copeland is an award-winning vocalist who has grown to become one of the most talented and passionately candid artists on today’s roots music scene, with a recording career that began in 1998 at age 18. Born in Harlem, Copeland gave her first public performance at age 10 and has since performed thousands of gigs at clubs, festivals, and concert halls all over the world, including the White House. On her new Alligator album, ‘Done Come Too Far,’ Copeland continues the story she began telling on 2018’s groundbreaking America’s Child and 2020’s Grammy-nominated Uncivil War, reflecting her vision of America’s past, present, and future.

Ruthie Foster and Shamekia Copeland

Walter “Wolfman” Washington

Fantastic Negrito

Ranky Tanky