Merkit Hadero 1/14/14 Cafe 9

Call me a sucker for the Daptonian Formula of voluptuous african-american female and skinny white jazzbos. In the case of Merkit Hadero, a young ethiopian poet and songstress. The band consisted of Hadero on vocals and acoustic, trumpet, bass, and drums made for a funky world stew. Hadero channelled phoebe snow, betty carter, angela davis, erykah badu. She had a great vibrato and sang several songs in her native tongue. Many songs followed a call-and-response jam feel. Awesome covers of Talking Heads' Naive Melody, and a jazzy version of the Police song "Bring On The Night". Merkit Hadero is one song away from world music stardom.