Presented by Luaka Bop and KFAI
Friday, December 12, 2025
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music
All Ages
$50 ($62.31 w. taxes/fees) Premium Seating
$40 ($49.61 w. taxes/fees) Preferring Reserved Seating
$30 ($38.07 w. taxes/fees) Advance General Admission
$35 ($40 w. taxes/fees) At The Door General Admission
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Hailing from West Point, Mississippi, Annie & the Caldwells are the definitive family band, presenting powerful disco soul and delivering energetic and moving musical testimonies that blend the fiery sounds of gospel with the slow groove of soul. Stay after the performance for a record signing with the full band! Presented by Luaka Bop and KFAI.
Annie & the Caldwells offer ecstatic proof that honoring tradition doesn’t mean being stuck in amber — or that new listeners cannot be drawn to very old sounds. The band began 30 years ago in the mid-sized Mississippi crossroads town of West Point. Annie and Willie Caldwell were at a school talent show when they heard their daughters singing the blues with might; they were excited about the performance but less so about the material, since it strayed from the family’s gospel foundation. Back when she was Annie Brown, after all, Annie and her own family — playfully dubbed The Staples Jr. Singers — had made When Do We Get Paid, a gospel collector’s item. It was now time to start a family band of her own.
The Caldwells released two records on the Memphis bastion Ecko before inking a deal with David Byrne’s Luaka Bop, based in part on the rediscovery and revitalization of The Staples Jr. Singers. Annie & the Caldwells’ 2025 debut for the label, Can’t Lose My Soul, linked classic gospel themes of trial, tribulation, and trust to totally buoyant disco and soul beats. They have made fans of Byrne and Sir Elton John, who calls the debut “A great, great record that I insist you go out and buy.”
