Wyclef Jean Performing at Mateel in March

This is a press release from the Mateel:

Future Productions and the Mateel present three-time Grammy winner, Wyclef Jean in The Carnival Tour, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at the Mateel Community Center, 59 Rusk Lane in Redway.  Tickets are available now at mateel.org for $40 in advance for 18 and over, the doors are at 8pm, show starts at 9pm.

Touring in support of his most recent album, Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee released in September, 2017, the music that Wyclef Jean has written, performed, and produced — both as a solo superstar and as founder and guiding member of the Fugees — has been a consistently powerful, pop cultural force for over two decades. In 1996, the Fugees released their monumental album The Score, which inspired notoriously prickly rock critic Robert Christgau to write: “so beautiful and funny, its courage could make you weep.” The album, created in Wyclef’s studio in his uncle’s basement in New Jersey, hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned a trio of smash singles (including their indelible reinvention of Roberta Flack’s 1973 ballad “Killing Me Softly”), and is now certified six times platinum. But Wyclef, a child prodigy with a wealth of musical influences from jazz to classic rock to reggae, resisted the pressure to duplicate the sound and style of that masterwork. Instead, he launched himself as a producer and solo artist whose work drew from an innovative and eclectic palette that included elements of pop, country, folk, disco, Latin, and electronic music.

“I just keep moving,” he says today. “If I didn’t keep moving after The Score, y’all wouldn’t have had the biggest pop song of all time.” Wyclef is referring to Shakira’s chart-topping single “Hips Don’t Lie,” which he co-wrote and is featured on. That 2006 blockbuster climbed to No. 1 in 20 countries including the U.S. — a crowning achievement atop a nearly unprecedented run of hits.

Wyclef has been rewarded for his creativity and adventurousness with three Grammy Awards, a spot on the cover of Rolling Stone’s special “Top 50 Hip Hop Players,” and the opportunity to make music with such legends as Michael Jackson, Queen, Mick Jagger, Paul Simon, Earth, Wind & Fire, Kenny Rogers, and Tom Jones. As a solo artist, he has released six albums that have sold nearly nine million copies worldwide, including his 1997 solo debut The Carnival.

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Samantha
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Samantha
6 years ago

Tickets are only 250$. It’s to save the Mateel bro!

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
6 years ago

Who is “Future Productions” and why are they producing shows at the Mateel? I thought the idea of shows was to raise tax exempt donations for a non-profit 501c3 organization aka fundraiser? How can it be a non-profit fundraiser if its being produced by a for-profit producer? Is this what they will be doing for Summer Arts and Reggae too? Seems they have been down this road before…

And there is no record the Mateel sent the CA AG their 2014 audit or 2016 tax return and they are still delinquent! Why am I not surprised…

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oiSgz8-fe6VthVFKn8tX35jZqO3rYW2z

69 roadrunner man mogtx
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You would have to pay me $250 to watch that crap

$weetness!
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$weetness!
6 years ago

what’s the max Tisk one can buy at once? I’m there!

69 roadrunner man mogtx
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I take it back I would have to bump it up to pay me 300 $ to go watch that crap.

Trump Is A Traitor
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Trump Is A Traitor
6 years ago

If I was President, I would get in for free, son! (Wrap it up, B!)

But seriously, $250?

Do ticket purchasers get an ounce of homegrown with that?

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
6 years ago

It would seem, after doing a google search, this guy would fit right in with the Mateel and how they spend charitable donations…

http://www.caribbean360.com/news/wyclef-jean-faces-criminal-probe-haiti-charity

Trump Is A Traitor
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Trump Is A Traitor
6 years ago

Ok, I would pay $250 – if it was The Fugees playing.

But Wyclef just by himself?

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
6 years ago

Dear MCC Board & Staff,

Included in you go fund me plea it states:

“As the cultural hub of Southern Humboldt county we are passionate about continuing to offer enriching experiences and preserving community values.”

https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/be-a-mateel-community-center-rainmaker–2

Please define “cultural hub” and what are your “community values”? I cannot find your “community values” on your website.

If you want to claim you are the “cultural hub of Southern Humboldt”, then you need to own it, be accountable for your actions and to the public as a 501c3 organization…

“Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions.” Dalai Lama

Ed Voice & Voice Family
Former Garberville/Redway resident, homeowner 1961-2015 and SHUSD Alumni Class of 1975