No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone is an intimate portrayal of the legendary artist Nina Simone that gives its audiences insight into Simone’s wide repertoire of music, her life perspective, sense of humor, and sense of duty to people of color.
Born “Eunice Kathleen Waymon” in 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone, an American singer-songwriter and musician is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and a hero of the Civil Rights Movement. A member of the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame since 2009, Nina Simone was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, and in the same year, her childhood home in Tryon was designated a National Treasure by The National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 2019, a previous two-time Grammy nominee, Nina Simone was inducted into the Grammy Awards Hall of Fame.
No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone is a Wake-Up Call to Arms;
RDU Onstage – Lauren Van Hemert
Howard L. Craft’s script is poetic and profound.
In 2019, acclaimed North Carolina playwright and poet, Howard L. Craft, premiered his one-woman play No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone starring National Recording Artist Yolanda Rabun and directed by Kathyrn Hunter-Williams.
Nina Simone is remarkably portrayed and sung by Yolanda Rabun; She is a tour de force.
Indy Week – Byron Woods
Yolanda is a Commanding Nina Simone in Howard L. Craft’s Play
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Learn more about this talent-filled, crowd-pleasing play that takes its audiences on an emotional, musical and thought-provoking journey they are sure to remember.
