I’m pretty thrilled that hissing lawns is associated with Meklit and her stirring new album We Are Alive, which has been earning great reviews. One of the photos that I shot back in January at Dollhouse Productions is on the cover.
A TED Fellow, Meklit appeared this week on PRI’s The World talking about The Nile Project and sharing some music:
Here’s a brand new video of a rehearsal of “A Train”:
Just last week, Meklit was featured in a cover story for the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
You can click on through the embed below to Meklit’s Facebook page and sites to buy the album.
A couple of photos from the Savannah show can also be seen on Meklit’s website.
I kind of warned readers before Meklit’s show in January that some would regret missing the gig. Click here to see our full set of Savannah photos. Meklit’s label Six Degrees Records appreciated both the pics and brief review, and pretty much immediately decided which image they wanted to license for the album cover. Here’s a post by the label at the end of January: