Ranky Tanky with Lisa Fischer

Friday, November 10, 2023 • 8 p.m.

$50 Special Event ticket includes Meet & Greet with the artists

$35 | $5 Fairfield University student

H Quick Member: $25 H

The Quick is going to jump with the return of South Carolina-based, Grammy Award-winners Ranky Tanky... especially in this very special appearance with the “addictive” vocalist Lisa Fischer! The quintet performs timeless music born from the Gullah culture of the southeastern Sea Islands. You’ll be moved by their playfulness, ecstatic shouts, and heartbreaking spirituals. Lisa Fischer spent four decades singing with icons such as The Rolling Stones, Luther Vandross, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, and Nine Inch Nails, and was featured in the Oscar Award-winning film, Twenty Feet from Stardom. Together, Fischer and Ranky Tanky make for an explosive performance.

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A current Guggenheim Fellow writing a book on the history of European Jewish scholarship on Islam, Susannah Heschel is chair of the Jewish Studies program at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish and Protestant thought during the 19th and 20th centuries, including the history of biblical scholarship, Jewish scholarship on Islam, and the history of anti-Semitism. The author of more than 100 articles, she has also edited several books, including Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award.

Funded through generous Anonymous Friends of the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies.