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Prep for Lauryn Hill’s Mann Center show by streaming her appearance on Austin City Limits
Later this month, the inimitable Ms. Lauryn Hill kicks off a fall tour at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts…and that’s about all we can say with any certainty, since Hill’s performances are very fluid and in the moment. This has earned her the ire of some fans, who just want to hear the songs performed exactly the way they sounded on The Score and Mis-Education — ahem, people standing behind me at Hill’s Stellar Electric Factory show a couple years ago. But I honestly do believe that most of the concertgoing public doesn’t want total and complete predictability, is open to being taken for a ride. And as I said in the wake of Hill’s Factory show, if you go into it prepared, it can be quite exceptional.
In that spirit, I present you with a new video of Hill and her tremendous band performing live on on the PBS series Austin City Limits. The hour-long set gives a sense of the range her setlists draw from – Fugees to post-solo work – and of the caliber of amazing musicians Hill surrounds herself with, not to mention the thrilling interpretive spins they put on her songs.
Watch below, and get tickets and more information on Ms. Lauryn Hill’s August 27 date at The Mann Center via the XPN Concert Calendar. Full tour dates can be found below.
08/27 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Mann Center
09/01 – Chicago, IL @ Ravinia
09/02 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
09/04 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
09/13 – Louisville, KY @ The Louisville Palace
09/16 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
09/18 – Cleveland, OH @ Hard Rock Live Rocksino
09/22 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Murat Theatre
09/24 – Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park
09/25 – Tuscaloosa, AL @ Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
10/01 – Boston, MA @ Wang Theatre
11/01 – San Diego, CA @ Copley Symphony Hall
11/06 – Seattle, WA @ McCaw Hall
11/08 – Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
11/12 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Foundry at SLS
11/13 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre