Shell Yeah: Yola

Information about this show can be found here.

A FEW SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS EVENT:

• Gates open at 6:00pm. Show at 7:30PM.

• Tickets to this event are sold by pod ($400 with provided picnic, $270 without provided picnic). Each Socially distanced pod holds six people. Grab 5 of your friends and buy your pod! Food will be curated by Chef Kelly English and a team of Memphis Chefs. Menu to come. Bars will be available for alcoholic and non-alcoholic purchases.

• No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at this event.

• Masks must be worn at all times except within your individual, assigned pod. COVID 19 updates and safety protocol.

• Ticket purchasers (or Pod People) must transfer tickets to your 5 guests before arriving at the box office. This will be helpful, especially if guests come separately.

• We ask that you pull up your Ticketmaster e-ticket on your phone before coming to the Levitt Shell (or take a screenshot) as you are entering our 2 box offices.

• Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power back the return of our Free Concert Series this fall!

• Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome inside your pod.

• The Levitt Shell is wheelchair accessible.

• All entrants must have a ticket.

• No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment.

• Levitt Shell will be ‘passing the bucket’ at the event if you are feeling generous!

• Levitt Shell has limited the number of pods being sold to this fundraiser to ensure a pleasurable, safe experience for all. Grab your pod!

• Future benefit concert dates: May 20, June 3, June 17, July 1, and July 15. Artists to be announced.

• Seating Chart, pods will be assigned.

• Dance floor will be closed for the show.

ABOUT YOLA:

“It’s a paradigm shift.”

And as simply as that, Yola encapsulates the giddy expansiveness, stunning emotional breadth, and exponential musical growth of her sophomore album Stand For Myself, out July 30. She may only be saying four words, but it’s a whole new world.

Everything about the album—musically, lyrically, spiritually—explores the epiphany that making decisive choices leads to freedom. If her critically acclaimed 2019 debut Walk Through Fire was an exhilarating exercise in country soul, Stand For Myself explores the concept of genre. The album features a fluidity of sound that defies categorization weaving elements of symphonic soul, mellifluous pop melodies, disco grooves, rootsy rawness, and ecstatic gospel power into a package with instant appeal.

For those who fell in love with the singular British artist on Walk Through Fire—and the love affair was fierce with both critics and the Recording Academy which recognized Yola with four Grammy nominations—listening to Stand For Myself is like stepping out of Kansas into Oz. Home may have been cozy and full of great songs, but it’s time to take the Yola ride in full Technicolor. And there’s no place like Stand For Myself. MORE