Sat 4/22 @ 7-9PM
Afi Scruggs was once best known locally as a freelance journalist who formerly wrote a Plain Dealer column. But in recent years, she’s become more prominent as a musician whose range is expansive: she performs blues and rock, jazz and church music and hip-hop and plays both acoustic and electric music, with bass her main instrument, but she also plays keyboards and sings.
This week she’ll be part of a series sponsored by the nonprofit Roots of American Music at edwins too at Shaker Square, featuring local musicians who play jazz, blues and other forms of (surprise!) American roots music. Scruggs will perform both her own original music, informed by her eclectic musical background and a tribute to the equally eclectic vocalist, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist Nina Simone (1933-2003), famous for tunes such as “Mississippi Goddam,” “Old Jim Crow,” and “To Be Young, Gifted and Black.”
There’s a $10 cover, and you can eat and drink while you listen.
rootsofamericanmusic.org/events