Leyla McCalla has been played on NTS in shows including Smithsonian Folkways , featured first on 19 July 2023. Songs played include Heart Of Gold.

Leyla McCalla (born Leyla Sarah McCalla in New York City on 3 October 1985) is an Haitian-American classical and folk musician. She was a cellist with the Grammy-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, leaving to focus on her solo career.

McCalla sings in French, Haitian Creole and English, and plays cello, tenor banjo and guitar. Her music is influenced by traditional Creole, Cajun and Haitian music, as well as by American jazz and folk.

Raised in suburban New Jersey (with a…