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Kamara Thomas presents SONGSPELL

Kamara's SONGSPELL is a musical performance that will turn North Star into a mythological space that centers on the storytelling in her songs.

Kamara Thomas is a singer, songspeller, storyteller, multi-disciplinary artist and mythology fanatic, born and raised in Chicago, currently based in Durham, NC. Most recently, Kamara wrote and produced SOAPBOX, a traveling public space performance commissioned for Downtown Durham Inc.s Public Space Grant.

She directed the video Oh Gallows in 2016, and her video Good Luck America was featured at the 2019 Hayti Heritage Film Festival. Kamara has been a resident artist at Lincoln Center Education and Yaddo, and has been a guest speaker at Duke, Princeton, and Indiana Universities.

Kamara was named one of the 14 Artists Proving Black Americana is Real by Paste Magazine in 2017.

For over fifteen years she has fronted numerous musical projects, including hard rock trio Earl Greyhound, Ghost Gamblers, and Kamara Thomas & The Night Drivers. She is currently at work producing her album and storytelling work TULAROSA: AN AMERICAN DREAMTIME.