VersoFest’s 5th year will be bigger than ever.
That’s not hyperbole.
It’s Wyclef Jean performing.
The Grammy Award-winning artist/producer/composer/Fugees co-founder has just been booked as the headliner for the March 27 concert.
He’ll be there with his full band. Tickets are $125, and available now at VersoFest.org.
If that’s not enough: Jean’s show will support Music Will — the largest nonprofit music education program for schools in the United States.
Wyclef Jean
VersoFest is the Westport Library’s annual music and media conference — a forum for media creators, artists, and fans to converge.
The music that Jean has written, performed and produced — both as a solo superstar, and as founder and guiding member of the Fugees — has been a powerful pop cultural force for more than 2 decades.
Hits include the Fugees’ reinvention of Roberta Flack’s 1973 ballad “Killing Me Softly”; “Hips Don’t Lie” with Shakira, which he co-wrote, produced, and is featured on; his own “Gone Till November”; “Ghetto Superstar”; Carlos Santana’s Numeber 1 single “Maria, Maria” (featuring Jean); and Whitney Houston’s “My Love is Your Love.”
Jean has earned 3 Grammy Awards; Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, and the cover of Rolling Stone’s “Top 50 Hip Hop Players.” He’s made music with Michael Jackson, Queen, Mick Jagger, Paul Simon, Earth Wind & Fire, Kenny Rogers, and Tom Jones.
As a solo artist, Jean’s 6 albums have sold nearly 9 million copies worldwide.
Now he’ll be in Westport — performing for just 700 people, in the cutting-edge, intimate Library space.
