New Orleans brass band-meets-Mardi Gras Indian outfit Cha Wa radiates the energy of the city’s street culture. “My People,” the band’s follow up to their Grammy-nominated album “Spyboy,” feels like pure joy, a distillation of generations of New Orleans expression. But it also never fails to remind us how hard-won that joy was and still is: not least in the tense, funky and explosive title track, with its declaration “My people, we’re still here.”

🎤 Plus, local favorite, Shelem, bringing an opening act that’ll immediately shoot you into the party stratosphere!

The concert will take place in the stunning Susan Runyan Maier Sculpture Garden, weather permitting. We hope you’ll join us for one of the coolest events Charleston offers!

🎵 Live Music

🎧 Local DJs

🍻 Cash Bar

Sound Checks is supported by Soho’s, Roger L. Nicholson, Chris Blanchard, Encova, and Saluja Law.

The Clay Center’s performing and visual arts offerings are presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture, and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.