An Evening With Brittany Howard

 The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome 5x GRAMMY Award-winning artist Brittany Howard to the Museum’s 300-seat Ray Charles Rooftop Terrace for an evening of conversation moderated by music journalist Jenny Eliscu celebrating her career, latest project, What Now, and more, with a performance to follow. Attendees will also have an opportunity to enjoy rooftop views and a cash bar prior to the program.  

ABOUT BRITTANY HOWARD

With five GRAMMY® wins and sixteen nominations under her belt, powerhouse vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Brittany Howard, released WHAT NOW – the revelatory second solo album and first via Island Records in February 2024. The album found itself on multiple 2024 “must-hear” and “best of” album lists including The New York Times, NPR, Grammy.com, Pitchfork, TIME, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and more. Known for her unique timbre and powerful, soulful, emotionally charged vocals, Brittany Howard has been at the heart of the music scene for over a decade. She is a globally renowned singer, songwriter, and guitarist extraordinaire whose critical acclaim began as front-woman for four-time Grammy Award-winning Alabama Shakes. 

WHAT NOW follows massively acclaimed solo debut Jaime—a 2019 LP that earned her 7 GRAMMY® nominations in 4 different genres, winning the award for Best Rock Song with “Stay High.” The album also landed on best-of-the-year lists from the likes of Pitchfork, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and was named NPR’s album of the year. Like Jaime, What Now finds Howard taking the helm as producer and working closely with long-time collaborator Shawn Everett (Beck, The War on Drugs).

Over the course of its 12 tracks, Howard brings her musicality to a shapeshifting sound, encompassing everything from psychedelia and dance music to dream-pop and avant-jazz—a fitting backdrop for an album whose lyrics shift from unbridled outpouring to incisive yet radically idealistic commentary on the state of the human condition. At turns galvanizing, cathartic, and wildly soul-expanding, the result is a monumental step forward for one of the most essential artists of our time.

ABOUT JENNY ELISCU

During her nearly thirty years as a music journalist, Jenny Eliscu’s work has focused on helping artists to tell their authentic stories, whether in print, on the radio, in podcasts or, more recently, in documentary form. 

Born in Queens, New York, Eliscu began her career as a writer and editor at college radio bible CMJ in 1995. From 1999-2011 she was a contributor at Rolling Stone, penning features and cover stories on artists including Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, Mariah Carey and Justin Timberlake, among others. Eliscu also specializes in discovering and championing up-and-coming artists; at Rolling Stone, she was one the first national magazine writers to cover the Strokes, the White Stripes, Vampire Weekend, and many more.

Following her series of Rolling Stone features on Britney Spears, including a 2008 cover story exposing the machinery behind Spears’s conservatorship, Eliscu was enlisted for the 2021 Netflix documentary Britney Vs. Spears, which she appears in and executive produced. She recently completed her next music documentary, which will premiere with a major streamer this fall.

Since 2006, Eliscu has been an on-air host and interviewer for Sirius XM. She presents daily shows on indie music channel Sirius XMU and Triple A channel The Spectrum. 

She launched her independent LSQ podcast in fall of 2017. The interviews focus on artists’ earliest moments of creativity – the music and arts that inspired them as a child, the concerts and albums that blew their minds, the early songwriting efforts that shaped their approach – and how their music-making practices have evolved over the years. Recent guests have included Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, Brittany Howard, and Gossip’s Beth Ditto.

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Show Time: 7:30pm

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