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For the final performance in Duke Arts Opening Week, Sudan Archives brings her genre-blurring, soul-shaking sound to Durham. Described as “the violin’s domme” by The New Yorker, Sudan doesn’t just play the violin—she commands it, looping riffs into whole orchestras, flipping classical training into raw, radiant funk.There’s a little of Durham’s own Betty Davis in her wild originality, dazzling stage presence, and Afro-futurist vibes. With every live performance, Sudan Archives redefines what it means to be a one-woman powerhouse.
About Sudan Archives
As Sudan Archives, Brittney Parks has combined left-field strains of R&B, hip-hop, and experimental electronic music with hypnotic string loops and the fiddling style of West Africa, as heard on her critically acclaimed album Natural Brown Prom Queen (2022). The self-taught violinist, singer, songwriter, and producer started playing violin in her native Cincinnati, Ohio. After Parks moved to Los Angeles to study music technology, she started producing beats on a tablet computer with the addition of her vocals and strings, the latter increasingly inspired by immersion in Sudanese music.
Event URL: https://arts.duke.edu/events/sudan-archives/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Page Auditorium, 402 Chapel Drive,Durham, North Carolina, United States
