Ranky Tanky With Ms. Lisa Fischer at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Grammy Award-winning quintet, Ranky Tanky (a Gullah phrase for “get funky”), performs timeless music born from the Gullah culture of the southeastern Sea Islands. The five lifelong friends from Charleston, South Carolina have established themselves as passionate global ambassadors for their local culture and community, helping to faithfully preserve the traditions originated by African Americans in the coastal South during slavery that are kept alive through the present day.

Ms. Lisa Fischer: After four decades of featured background singing with icons like Luther Vandross, The Rolling Stones, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, and Nine Inch Nails, Ms...

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Grammy Award-winning quintet, Ranky Tanky (a Gullah phrase for “get funky”), performs timeless music born from the Gullah culture of the southeastern Sea Islands. The five lifelong friends from Charleston, South Carolina have established themselves as passionate global ambassadors for their local culture and community, helping to faithfully preserve the traditions originated by African Americans in the coastal South during slavery that are kept alive through the present day.

Ms. Lisa Fischer: After four decades of featured background singing with icons like Luther Vandross, The Rolling Stones, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, and Nine Inch Nails, Ms. Lisa Fischer set out to take center stage with her own humble, heartfelt song. The 2013 Best Documentary Oscar-winning film “Twenty Feet from Stardom” altered the course of Lisa’s musical journey, telling her story, with clips of her legendary duets with Sting or with Mick Jagger on “Gimme Shelter”, left audiences eager to see and hear more, so Lisa took the chance to set out on her own reinventing classic songs with her co-conspirators JC Maillard and Grand Baton. Their organic fusion of Caribbean psychedelic soul and jazzy progressive rock ignited Lisa’s flexibility and freedom of expression, awakening her lifelong desire to make music that heals but still rocks the house.

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