# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Jazz in the Square: Shirlette Ammons
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: This free concert series brings you live jazz performances by talented local musicians, right in the heart of Downtown Raleigh! ?

Concert-goers will enjoy food trucks on-site and wine & beer for sale, so grab your friends, blankets, and chairs for an evening of great music and community. 

About the Artist: 

Shirlette Ammons is a Black queer southern truth teller. She is a poet and musician who has also served as producer on Emmy and Peabody award-winning TV  & film projects. She is also an identical twin who hails from a tiny, wonderfully-named pocket of eastern North Carolina earth called Beautancus.

– Grayson Currin, Music Writer

Given this wild set of identifiers, the thought of being someone else’s “spectacle” is not some theoretical consideration for Shirlette; she has been “othered” her entire life. Her new album Spectacles, co-produced with Phil Cook, is a captivating and electric 11-track examination of the duality between being objectified by the proverbial, patriarchal, white gaze and cultivating attention when rocking stages. The record is a poignant expression of her own multitudes (here as songwriter, MC, bassist, producer & poet) rendered by a modern wellspring of Black Southern brilliance and her wider creative community featuring contributions from musicians, filmmakers and writers including genre-and-gender-defying performance artist Mykki Blanco, MacArthur-winning poet Fred Moten, Nigerian writer and chef Tunde Wey, Amelia Meath of Sylvan Esso, and radical feminist writer Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “the Beyoncé of yoga” Jessamyn Stanley, as well as her twin sister Shorlette Ammons and niece, Anansi Stephens. Ammons has always been a highly collaborative musician, whether making a record with the likes of soul-rock band The Dynamite Brothers or pairing The Indigo Girls, Hiss Golden Messenger and Meshell Ndegocello on the same LP, 2016’s Language Barrier. 

? downtownraleigh.org/jazzinthesquare
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/raleigh/jazz-in-the-square-shirlette-ammons/200028871152909
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, art, literary-art, food-drinks, concerts, health-wellness, live-music
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200028871152909?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=raleigh-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Raleigh
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Moore Square
- **lat**: 35.777420002858
- **long**: -78.636262062525
- **full address**: Moore Square, 201 S Blount St, Raleigh, NC 27601-1407, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Downtown Raleigh Alliance (https://allevents.in/org/downtown-raleigh-alliance/26008520)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Moore Square, 201 S Blount St, Raleigh, NC 27601-1407, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Downtown Raleigh Alliance
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, entertainment, art, literary-art, food-drinks, concerts, health-wellness, live-music
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Jazz in the Square: Shirlette Ammons ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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