Today, on Juneteenth, Grammy Award-winning artist, Corinne Bailey Rae, unveils her new music project, Black Rainbows, inspired by the objects and artworks of Theaster Gates at the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago. This work includes a collection of songs and a book titled Refraction/Reflection of the Arts Bank, which Koto Bolofo photographed. There are also live performances, visuals, lectures, and exhibitions – a completely different turn from her previous work.
Black Rainbows is set for release on September 15 via Thirty Tigers. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here. The first single off the album, “New York Transit Queen,” is out now, and you can listen/share here.
“I knew when I walked through those doors that my life had changed forever,” says Bailey Rae. “Engaging with these archives and encountering Theaster Gates and his practice has changed how I think about myself as an artist and what the possibilities of my work can be. This music has come through seeing. Seeing has been like hearing, for me. While I was looking, songs/sounds appeared.”
Corinne will be taking her live show on the road to celebrate her new project Take a look at the dates below.
CORINNE BAILEY RAE LIVE
September 5—Long Island, NY—Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University
September 6—Washington, DC—Lincoln Theatre
September 8—Philadelphia, PA—Theatre of Living Arts
September 9—New Haven, CT—Schwarzman Center at Yale University
September 10—New York, NY—The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
September 12—Cincinnati, OH—Memorial Hall
September 14—Chicago, IL—Rockefeller Memorial
Chapel at University of Chicago
September 17—Nashville, TN—CMA Theater
September 19—Charleston, SC—Charleston Music Hall
September 20—Durham, NC—Carolina Theatre
September 22—Sugar Hill, GA—The Eagle Theatre at Sugar Hill
September 24—Birmingham, AL—Alys Stephens Center at University of Alabama
September 26—New Orleans, LA—Orpheum Theater
September 29—Austin, TX—The Paramount Theatre
October 1—Houston, TX—Stafford Centre
October 3—Dallas, TX—Texas Theatre
October 5—Santa Fe, NM—Lensic Performing Arts Center
October 7—Marfa, TX—Saint George Hall
UK / SPAIN TOUR DATES
October 25—London, UK—Ladbroke Hall
October 26—London, UK—Ladbroke Hall
October 28—London, UK—Ladbroke Hall
October 31—Madrid, Spain—Teatro Pavón
November 1—Barcelona, Spain—Studio P62
November 3—Seville, Spain—Cartuja Centre
