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Erykah Badu will join the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for one night only in June

Tickets for the just-announced show are now on sale.

Gigging together for the first time ever next month: Erykah Badu and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Are they really an unlikely pair? Badu's genre-bending tendencies and the DSO's willingness to sprinkle pop performances into its program make the two strangely suited for collaboration. And their shared Dallas roots don't hurt either.

For the DSO, the show will be a key change following the series of sci-fi movie score performances it plans to wrap up a few days prior. Badu will be switching gears too: She's spending portions of June on tour in Paris, Portugal, Germany and London.

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Here in town, Badu's teenage daughter Puma Curry recently brought down the house at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts with a rendition of "One Night Only" from the musical Dreamgirls. And a minute-long video of the performance — Instagrammed by Curry's parents, Badu and rapper The D.O.C. — has drawn a lot of virtual praise since appearing last weekend. "The control, the diction, the tone, the precision, the color, the choices. And the sounds of the family," commented fellow musician and Badu collaborator Janelle Monae.

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Tickets for Badu's one-night appearance with the DSO at the Meyerson Symphony Center go on sale this morning at 10 a.m. sharp.

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"Erykah Badu and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra," Friday, June 21, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora St., tickets start at $60 at mydso.com or 214.TIX.4DSO