SŌ Percussion, Helado Negro, and Kate Stables: Just Like the World

If your playlists bounce between songs everyone knows by heart, artists with 800 monthly listeners, and a track a friend sent you at 1 a.m., this concert will make perfect sense.

You might walk in for one of them and leave obsessed with all three.

Photo by Edwina Hay

So Percussion is four musicians who start with rhythm and use just about anything they can get their hands on: marimbas, flowerpots, drums, steel pans, shakers, a Moog synthesizer, even a toy piano. The New Yorker described their sound as “precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam.” Translation: they know exactly what they’re doing, even when the music feels gloriously surprising.

For this performance, they’re joined by two artists who sound nothing like them, or each other. Helado Negro sings in English and Spanish over electronics and Latin-influenced grooves. Kate Stables of This Is the Kit brings banjo, guitar, and songs that rarely go where you expect.

It feels right at home here in the Triangle, where a richness of cultures and languages cross paths every day. Nobody is opening for anyone, and they won’t simply take turns. They’ll swap songs, rearrange them, pile on new sounds, and share music they’ve created together.

Saturday festival day pass required for attendance. Seating is first-come, first-served and subject to venue capacity. A day pass does not guarantee entry; plan to arrive early.