The Lakeside concert series returns with Danity Kane's Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn
Saturday, March 29, 2025 @ 7:00 pm | Lakeside Stage
Doors at 6:00, Music at 7:00 | Get Tickets
On paper, Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn's audacious, impressionistic musical collaborations feel like a surprising match.
Dawn Richard, a New Orleans–reared visionary, has had an improbable journey from late 2000s reality television and mainstream pop with girl group Danity Kane to become one of the most prolific, experimental, and visible indie R&B singer-songwriters of the last decade and a half, with seven solo albums under her belt. Richard says she wants to "be the reason why a young Black girl from the South can be whoever she wants to be musically, visually, and artistically."
Spencer Zahn is an East Coast–raised multi-instrumentalist and composer working at the intersections of jazz, Americana, classical, and ambient pop. His growing solo discography includes People of the Dawn, Sunday Painter, Pale Horizon, and Statues I & II, as well as the duo's first release, Pigments, which was hailed as Best New Music by Pitchfork and received praise from Stereogum as Album of the Week, NPR Music, Bandcamp Daily, The Fader, and Bitter Southerner, among others.
"The singer and composer scale down their collaboration for a grief-saturated set of songs filled with austere piano melodies and diaristic reflections…The air between Richard's soulful, diaristic lyrics and Zahn's austere piano is charged, pulled taut as wire." — Pitchfork
Lakeside Concert Series
Drawing inspiration from a legendary 1990 Sun Ra Arkestra performance at the same spot, Lakeside is a new genre-bending concert series showcasing today's best pop and rock acts on the scenic grounds of NCMA Winston-Salem. With a stage situated on a picturesque hillside overlooking a spring-fed lake, the landscape's natural amphitheater and wooded setting creates a concert experience unlike any other.