Opening the 2019/20 Kodak Hall series – and celebrating Meliora weekend here at Eastman – is acclaimed singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and leader of the group, Stay Human – since 2015, the house band of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.  On his latest album, Hollywood Africans, Batiste weaves an intimate and emotional tapestry out of original material and Americana standards that carries the listener from the early jazz of New Orleans to the present day.

Saturday, October 5, 8:00pm

Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater

sponsored by ME Engineering