SpeakerBox: Phonte Coleman

Speakerbox is a new kind of night at Hayti: the featured artist onstage, playing the songs that made them who they are, and telling the stories behind them as they go. No script, no distance — just the music and the truth of how it got made. We could not have asked for a better first guest than Phonte Coleman. One-third of Little Brother, the group that formed on NCCU's campus and changed the sound of hip-hop, and half of the Grammy-nominated Foreign Exchange, Phonte is one of the sharpest pens and warmest voices this state has ever produced. Hearing him walk through his own catalog, song by song and story by story, is a homecoming in every sense. Limited onstage seating is available for those who really want to be close to the action.