LIVE in the DTL Juneteenth Concert: Charity

Charity’s music paints the kind of picture you’d see hanging on your grandmother’s wall. It’s sacred, strong.. some element of love in there, and let’s face it - Black. Her storytelling gives away that her very first guitar teacher played folk music. The organ in the production reveals she’s a preacher’s daughter. Her use of metaphors point to her English degree, but her hidden nods to writers like Nikki Giovanni and Ntozake Shange point to her HBCU alma mater, Tennessee State University. Her style, love for fashion and frequent show-stopping (blood orange) hairstyles are naturally compliments of her hometown, Detroit.

Charity’s originals cover subject matter like religion, loss, self-love and coming-of-age with a disarming kind of vulnerability. And as for her genre, you wonder if it’s R&B, if it’s neo-soul, if it’s folk or if it’s Gospel. But you can’t help but realize after a listen to her debut album “Tender Headed” or her following holiday EP “Seasoned” that Charity is Motown.

• Charity Website

5:30 p.m. - Food vendors ready to serve
8 p.m. - Charity takes the stage