Leyla McCalla of The Carolina Chocolate Drops will make her solo recording debut with Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes due out February 4 via the Music Maker Relief Foundation. The album will feature music set to Hughes’ poetry along with two original songs and Haitian folk songs.

Guests on the record include fellow Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmates Rhiannon Giddens, Hubby Jenkins and Luke Winslow-King.