Come join us on Saturday, June 2, 2018 – 7pm
at the Jersey City Theater Center’s Merseles Studio
339 Newark Avenue, Jersey City NJ
7 pm-midnight (Vienna & Keith perform first)
$10
The last Hokum! sold out, so buy advance tickets to be sure of entry.
Come on out, Git Down, Have Fun!!
Theater conveniently located 10 blocks from the Grove Street Path Station (just walk west on Newark Ave). See map. See PATH schedule. See parking lot map. More info.
We’re so happy to be appearing at the Postcrypt Coffee House which has been “Folking Around Since 1964.” See you there! Saturday Feb 24, 10:30 pm. Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University 2920 Broadway 10027
Friday, April 7, 2017,
8pm,
Triskelion Arts at Muriel Schulman Theater,
106 Calyer Street,
Brooklyn, NY 11222,
G to Nassau Ave (walk 3 blks north to Calyer & 3 blks west to #106) • map
The “What For? Why Not?” series combines two artists from different disciplines juxtaposing dance, music, spoken word, and visual art.
Patti Bradshaw (dance) / Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston (music)
Act 1: Choreographer and puppeteer Patti Bradshaw shares the evening with singing storyteller duo, Vienna Carroll and Keith Johnston. Bradshaw’s Flowers in Space uses dance, puppetry, and slide projections in a solo for dancer Valerie Striar inspired by the turn of the twentieth-century painter, poet, set designer, and subtle social commentator Florine Stettheimer, (1871-1944).
Act 2: In Folk First: Black Roots Music, Carroll as griot and Johnston as guitarist celebrate the spirituals, work songs, prison blues, and sea shanties of antebellum African Americans, and their links to contemporary artists like Biggie Smalls and Pharrell Williams.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
1:30pm: Guthrie Bros. Simon & Garfunkle Tribute
2:30pm: The Joni Project by Katie Pearlman
3:30pm: Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston with Folk First/Black Roots
FREE and Family Friendly. This is also a food drive, please bring a can or box of non-perishable food!
Long Beach Public Library
111 West Park Avenue
Long Beach, NY 11561
(516) 432-7201
http://longbeachlibrary.org and http://aip-arts.org and aip4arts@gmail.com
Get directions
Sunday, April 23, 2017
7pm
Postcrypt Coffeehouse
Basement St. Paul’s Chapel
Campus of Columbia University
116th Street and Broadway
New York, NY
1 to 116 St. stop
http://columbia.edu/cu/postcrypt/coffeehouse/
I’m so happy to be coming “back home” to Newark. I hope you’ll join us for a most fabulous show.For more info, please call (973) 596-6550
We’ll be celebrating Music and Diversity for Black History Month at
Great Falls Harvest Restaurant, 50 3rd Street, Turners Falls, MA 01376
For more information, please call: (413) 863-0023
If you’re in the area, come on out!
Sunday November 8, 2015
Long Beach, NY
Artists in Partnership, Inc. and the Long Beach Public Library present the 4th Annual Kickin’ Country Music Festival and Food Drive for the Food and Friendship Inn at the Long Beach Public Library and other venues, from Friday, November 6th through Sunday, November 8th. The Long Beach Public Library is located at 111 West Park Avenue, Long Beach, NY.
All events are free, but we ask that participants bring non-perishable food and personal care items for our Long Beach Food and Friendship Inn Food Drive to benefit local homeless/hungry citizens.
Please contact us at aip4arts@gmail.com for more information or call (516) 432-6342.
Sunday, June 14, 2016 from 12 – 6pmFolk First: Black Roots Music is Vienna’s newest project. Debuted at the recent Harlem Arts Festival, it was a fabulously entertaining and riveting musical experience! It is no surprise that the intellectually gifted Vienna has a degree from Yale in African American Studies and Political Science. What is so remarkable is how perfectly she and her excellent band (Newman Taylor Baker – washboard; Keith Johnston – guitar; Henrique Prince – fiddle) convey the contemporary meaning of Work Songs and Spirituals and Prison Blues so that both young and old are rapturously engaged. You have to hear it for yourself.
Folk First: Black Roots Music with Vienna Carroll & Friends from Mark Johnson on Vimeo.
