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Citizen Cope with special guest Mayaeni

An Intimate Solo/Acoustic Listening Performance by Citizen Cope melds hip-hop with folk, soul and blues creating delicate dissonance with unexpected flashes of beauty.

August 20, 2016
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Sunoco Performance Theater 
Tickets are $39.50 & $49.50.

$1.00 of every CITIZEN COPE ticket purchased will go to purchasing musical instruments for students at Red Lake Middle School in Red Lake, MN.  Red Lake is a part of Turnaround Arts, a program of President Obama’s President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities that is using arts education to help students succeed. For more info, visit: http://turnaroundarts.pcah.gov.

Dug deep into the rich soil of American music, Cope’s roots are complex. You may think of Bill Withers or Neil Young or John Lee Hooker or Van Morrison or Willie Nelson or Al Green. Yet, listening to Cope, you also may think of none of the above. You may not think at all, but rather feel a man exposing stories that haunt his heart.

 In the past nine years, he has produced four albums of depth and distinction, each a critical chapter in his search for a sound that paints an auditory American landscape in which despair wars with hope and hope, tied to love, is elusive.

His self-reliance has been realized in the form of his own independent label. Citizen Cope is a self-realized musical/poetic/production entity. In that sense, his Americanism is profound. His approach is radical. He’s a rebel in the tough tradition of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He wanders through the woods alone. His accountability is to his own heart, his own values and vision.

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