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Hear Vienna Carroll at The Bitter End!

Tues., May 13, 2025,
6:45 pm Doors Open,
7 – 9 pm. $15.

3 Performers, Vienna Performs Last @ 8 pm. Come early & hear everyone for the same price.

147 Bleecker St. (bet. Thompson & LaGuardia), NYC 10012 • Map & Directions

New Zealand Tour

Ceremony for twice emancipated Edmund Moody. He escaped slavery and boarded a RI whaler in 1862; then escaped the whaler in New Zealand in 1864. St Andrew’s Church, Mangonui, NZ. Historian and vocalist Vienna Carroll made Edmund Moody come alive for all.

Ceremony for twice emancipated Edmund Moody. He escaped slavery and boarded a RI whaler in 1862; then escaped the whaler in New Zealand in 1864. St Andrew’s Church, Mangonui, NZ
The Barn, Taipa, NA
Dunedin Folk Club
Free Palestine!

Vienna Carroll performs for Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza

March 21st, 2024,
By Rev’d Michael and Rev’d Mary-Jo Holdaway,
St Michael’s Andersons Bay, Dunedin.

Vienna Carroll performs at St. Michaels
Vienna Carroll performs at St Michael’s Andersons Bay, Dunedin, New Zealand. Photo by Jonathan Wood.

Successful Fundraising Concert for the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza

St Michael’s Anglican Church in Anderson’s Bay Dunedin was packed for a concert on 20 March 2024, and you can still donate to this hospital appeal. Over $1200 was raised for this on the night, and further donations can be made to the hospital via Anglican Missions.

Bishop Kelvin Wright reflected on social media:
There were performances from Paul Allen and Bella Bloomfield and the Dee Street Band. But the real showstopper was Vienna Carroll with her mesmerizing mix of story and African American music. Rula Yousef from the Dunedin Palestinian community was MC. It was a powerful, deeply moving evening.

Vienna Carroll performs at St. Michael's Church. Photo: Jonathan Wood.
Vienna Carroll performs at St Michael’s Andersons Bay, Dunedin, NZ. Photo by Jonathan Wood.

See a peak at a livestream of the evening on Facebook.

Peace for Palestine fundraising concert

Vienna Carroll Sings the Blues

About the Performance

Experimental Blues pairs artists of juxtaposing styles in intimate concerts to create, highlight, and explore the intersection of Blues with other Black American music and musical genres—such as Negro spirituals, gospel, jazz, R&B, soul, hip hop, and more.

This season’s three Experimental Blues concerts begin with the pairing of two blues powerhouses: Vienna Caroll and Melody Angel. Together, these celebrated women of the blues will escort audiences through a musical journey of catharsis and revitalization that is sure to soothe your soul and energize your body.

Women Make A Way Outta No Way: Vienna Carroll and The Folk perform at Cooper Union

Weds., March 8, 2023,
7 – 8:30 pm,

Frederick P. Rose Auditorium,
41 Cooper Square (on Third Ave. bet. 6 & 7th Sts.),
New York, NY (see directions).
FREE. Must register.

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Vienna Carroll and The Folk — whose soulful Afro-Future Roots music presents African American spirituals, work songs, and the blues through a modern lens — perform a special program honoring ordinary and extraordinary women, such as Harriet Tubman, Clara Lemlich, Big Mama Thornton, and Audre Lorde, in celebration of International Women’s Day.

Visitors must register and show security proof of (1) vaccination, or (2) a negative PCR test by a third party (no home tests) within three days of their visit to campus, or (3) a negative rapid test result taken by a third party (not home test).

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A griot who mixes song, storytelling, and history, Carroll’s sound takes you back to her roots in the Black church. At the same time, her message examines American history and questions from whose perspective that history is told. Her stirring and powerful performances invite audiences to sing along in the African call-and-response tradition, adding emotional resonance to the stories shared.

Her band, The Folk, features Stanley Banks (George Benson, Esther Phillips) on bass; Washboard XT/Newman Taylor Baker (Matthew Shipp, Ebony Hillbillies, Henry Grimes) on washboard; and Keith Johnston (Jon Hendricks, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam) on guitar. Their latest album, Harlem: Afro-Future Roots, is a special collection of spirituals that honor 31 shackled-and-chained enslaved ancestors who in 1826, on a boat from Baltimore to deep south death, threw their captors overboard and escaped to freedom.

Carroll formalized her musical studies at Yale University with a B.A. in African American Studies and served as an artist-in-residence at the Hudson River Museum. She also received an Audience Favorite Award from the NY International Fringe Festival for Singin Wid A Sword In Ma Han, a musical docudrama she wrote and starred in, about a family escaping slavery. She conceived of and produced the First Annual NYC Underground Railroad Festival Juneteenth Celebration with the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrim, a nationally certified Underground Railroad site and the Brooklyn Historical Society, which WBGO broadcasted, NYC’s premiere jazz station.

This performance is presented by The Cooper Union Black Student Union, Student Affairs, and Public Programs.

Hear Our New Afro-Future Roots single “Swing Low Sweet Chariot.”

Get the MP3!

Release Date: February 10, 2023.

By: Vienna Carroll & The Folk – Stanley Banks, bass. Newman Taylor Baker/Washboard XT, washboard. Keith Johnston, guitar. and Me! 🎼❤️

In honor of 31 enslaved Africans headed from Baltimore to certain Deep South death in 1826 who overthrew their captors and escaped to freedom.

Get Swing Low Sweet Chariot (2023) MP3!
Photography – Jane Feldman @janefeldmanphotography
Get Swing Low Sweet Chariot (2023) MP3!

Lyrics
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Coming for to carry me home
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Coming for to carry me home

I looked over Jordan
And what did I see
Coming for to carry me home

A band of angels
Coming after me
Coming for to carry me home

Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Coming for to carry me home
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Coming for to carry me home


If you get to heaven
Before I do
Coming for to carry me home

Tell all my friends
I’m coming too
Coming for to carry me home

Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Coming for to carry me home
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Coming for to carry me home

Review

Jazz Lives
Jan. 27, 2023,
Reprinted from https://jazzlives.wordpress.com…

The late Sam Parkins used to say of certain powerfully emotional music, “Gets you right in the gizzard, doesn’t it?” We all have our personal collections of Gizzard Music. To them, I would like to add SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT, as performed by singer Vienna Carroll and the Folk.

A friend sent me this recording and I was enthralled. So many recordings are over-produced, tinkered with, and electronically fussed-over, that their essence is obliterated. Not this utterance — deep, unaltered, aimed directly at the listener.

“Swing Low Sweet Chariot” is Vienna Carroll & The Folk’s new single from their upcoming CD, Harlem: Afro Future Roots, a special collection of Spirituals honoring 31 enslaved Africans headed from Baltimore to certain Deep South death in 1826. Instead, they took their future into their own hands, threw their captors overboard, and escaped to freedom.

Vienna is joined by her “groovetastic” band, The Folk: Stanley Banks (George Benson) on bass; Washboard XT/Newman Taylor Baker (Matthew Shipp, Ebony Hillbillies, Henry Grimes) on washboard; and Keith Johnston (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Jon Hendricks) on guitar.

“We freed ourselves from slavery. We are the center of our own freedom stories. The Spirituals are our liberation songs,” says Carroll.

Now, hear the music: haunting, compelling here.

Keith and Vienna created this passionate sound during the award-winning run of Singin Wid A Sword In Ma Han, Vienna’s musical docudrama about a family escaping slavery. This was followed by Vienna’s first album of the same name, a reprise of Spirituals from the play, in collaboration with Washboard XT. The CD Harlem Field Recordings, recorded with the Folk and released in 2020, celebrates early Black music and its influence on the music of today.

“Swing Low Sweet Chariot,” to be released on Friday, February 10, 2023, will be available on viennacarrollmusic.com, Spotify, Bandcamp, and Apple Music.

Get Swing Low Sweet Chariot (2023)

For more information visit www.viennacarrollmusic.com & https://viennacarroll.bandcamp.com/track/swing-low-sweet-chariot-2.


Vienna Carroll and the Folk will be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC, to celebrate the Met’s Seneca Village exhibit with their Afro-Future Roots music on February 24 and 25th, 6-8:30 pm, Petrie Court Cafe. Read more on The Met’s website.

Hear Our New Afro-Future Roots single “Swing Low Sweet Chariot.”
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