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Note: For links to background, video and photos of King Britt, see end of release.

DJ and producer to present live version
of re-imagined 1960s religious folk record

CHAPEL HILL –  King Britt, a musical artist who has remixed songs by the likes of Macy Gray, Tori Amos and Yoko Ono, will showcase his recent work, a collage of a New Orleans spiritual album, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Feb. 16.

The 8 p.m. performance in the Beasley-Curtis Auditorium at Memorial Hall is presented by Carolina Performing Arts.

Britt will orchestrate a live mix of Sister Gertrude Morgan’s 1960s album “Let’s Make a Record” in tandem with documentary and political footage, Morgan’s folk paintings, live musicians and a turntable.

He will draw from the life and works of Morgan (1900-1980), who recorded the album somewhere in New Orleans after years of roaming the French Quarter and preaching a Christian message through folk art and song. Dressed in a nurse’s uniform and standing on a street corner, Morgan would shout or sing the Gospel through a megaphone and keep time with a tambourine. Her paintings, depicting simplistic religions images, were featured recently in New York’s American Folk Art Museum. (For a detailed history of Morgan’s life and works, visit http://www.ropeadope.com/sistergertrudemorgan/history/).

A Philadelphia native, Britt counts among his influences a range of styles including deep house, hip-hop, broken beat, nu-jazz, funk and afro-tech. He has released more than 10 full albums since 1998 and was a contributing member of Grammy-award winning rap group Digable Planets in the early 90s. He released his remix of “Let’s Make a Record” in 2005.

Tickets for Britt’s performance, $15-$35, are available online at www.carolinaperformingarts.org, by calling (919) 843-3333 or from the Memorial Hall Box Office on Cameron Avenue, open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Tickets for Carolina students are $10. Tickets also are on sale for other performances. For more information, visit www.carolinaperformingarts.org.

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Note: For a media kit and downloadable photos, visit www.carolinaperformingarts.org/media.

Carolina Performing Arts contacts: Don Smith, (919) 843-3119, donsmith@email.unc.edu; Jennifer Warner, (919) 966-3834, jenniferwarner@unc.edu