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Angélique Kidjo Brings "Remain In Light" Tour To UPAC In Kingston 4/11

Angélique Kidjo
Angélique Kidjo"

  Global pop star, 3-time Grammy winner, singer-songwriter, actress, and activist Angélique Kidjo is coming to UPAC in Kingston, New York with her hit tour “Remain in Light.” The tour, and accompanying album, released last September and produced by Jeff Bhasker, is a re-imagining, song by song, of Talking Heads’ 1980 album of the same name - which features the seminal and iconic song “Once in a Lifetime.”

Kidjo's new album "Celia," a tribute to Celia Cruz, will be released by Verve on April 19.

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.
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