We all had a fantastic time at the Album Release Party on Friday, March 6, 2020, at the American Folk Art Museum. Vienna Carroll and The Folk played songs from their new album, Harlem Field Recordings, plus older crowd folk favorites. Enjoy the photos and videos!
Listen and Purchase Harlem Field Recordings at viennacarrollmusic.com
I’ll be with my string band and we’ll be having lots of fun. Spirituals, work songs, prison blues, and sea chanteys – exuberant, roots and funky. Stanley Banks (George Benson) on bass, Keith Johnston (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Jon Hendricks) on guitar and Newman Taylor Baker (Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Henry Grimes) on washboard.
Come on out. Sing along. Admission is free. CDs for sale!
Gorgeous CD artwork by Ken Daley.
“What a voice!
This evening, awesome Vienna Carroll gave a free concert at the American Folk Art Museum. Accompanied by 2 guitarists [Keith Johnson and Stanley Banks] and a washboard percussionist [Newman Taylor], she got everyone singing folk, gospel, spiritual, call & response, and prison labor songs, and deftly wove in stories of resistance to a range of oppressions (slavery, racist police violence, distortions of history). She gave a shout-out to social media as a tool to expose injustice. Her rendition of the lament-lullaby “Hush Little Baby” was beyond heartbreaking. Intense, informative, inspiring.”
– Review by Pam McAllister
Newman Taylor, Keith Johnston, Vienna Carroll and Stanley Banks
Wed, March 27 • 10 pm315 Columbia Street,
Brooklyn, New York 11231
F or G trains to Carroll St. station
Get directions by Google Maps
Get directions by Jalopy Theatre
We debuted our first Roots & Ruckus appearance during the Polar Vortex and had a great time with our small but mighty turnout. I’ll be appearing again with Keith Johnston on guitar. We welcome you to come on out and sing along with us.
Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston at Roots & Ruckus
Jalopy Theater
315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NY
F or G trains to Carroll St. station. Get directions
The address is 2 Lincoln Square (66th and Broadway). 1 train to 66th St. stop. See map.
Support the proceedings with a donation-based cash wine bar. Admission is always free.
Jalopy Theatre Presents at the American Folk Art Museum: Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston.
Vienna Carroll sings and tells the stories of Black Roots Music — the spirituals, work songs, prison blues, and sea shanties of her ancestors. This music was integral to their survival and well-being and carries their history in it. Vienna also highlights improvised elements of this music in today’s 21st-century soundscape. As is traditional, audiences are invited to join in singing. Read more.
125-153 2nd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Nearest subways:
G to Carroll St. (three avenues walk)
R to Union Street (two avenues & three blocks walk)
2,3,4,5,B,D,Q,R to Atlantic Terminal/Barclay’s Center (three avenues & 13 blocks walk)
Come early! This event is part of the Gowanus Oktoberfest
2 – 6pm
Free local food samples
Free canoeing
Kid-friendly
Quality beer and food available for purchase
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.
An evening of cultural performances including Vienna Carroll and Keith Johnston, Collective Flow, Ngoma, Obediah Wright’s Balance Dance Theater and others. Poetry ~ Dance ~ Hip Hop ~ Song ~ Music ~ Fashion Show ~ Art for Sale
Book party for Look for Me in the Whirlwind. Book editors Matt Meyer & déqui kioni-sadiki speaking, as well as a contributor and longtime u.s. held political prisoner (and Black Panther Party leader) Sekou Odinga and Jamal Joseph among others.
Suggested donation $10 (no one turned away for lack of $)
Donations benefit the Northeast Political Prisoners Campaign
Food and stellar coffee/tea/soft drinks available for purchase from The Commons Cafe.
The Commons
388 Atlantic Avenue (bet. Hoyt & Bond Streets)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
2,3,4,5 to Nevins Street (closest); also close to D,N,R to Atlantic Ave/Barclay Center and A,C,G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn
Get custom directions
For more info contact:
https://northeastpoliticalprisonercoalition.wordpress.com/blog/
FreeThemAll2016@gmail.com
LIVE STREAM EVENT AT: http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/videos/livestream
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.