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Sea Shanty Sing with Vienna Carroll

Saturday, April 3, 2021,  
3 pm to 5 pm,
165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11231 • Map/directions

In partnership with our friends at Porch Stomp, the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club is hosting a monthly socially distanced, sea shanty sing, outside our boathouse starring Vienna Carroll. Free.

Creative synergies are vital for neighborhoods to thrive and at the Gowanus Canal, we reopen our 2021 season with songs and laughter to get our economy back on track. 

Sing-alongs occur on the first Saturday of each month at 3 pm. Bring your voice, a positive attitude, wear a mask (and bring an instrument if you’d like) to join the fun! We’ll trade off tunes, so everyone has the opportunity to lead. 

The event is outdoors at the esplanade, seating with separation provided and will be canceled if raining at 2 pm.  Refreshments and possibly donated treats from Gowanus Eats will be on hand and donations are strongly encouraged but we seek sponsors so let us know if you are interested.

Album Party a Smash Success!

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!

  • "Harlem Field Recordings" by Vienna Carroll and The Folk
  • "Harlem Field Recordings" Album
    Harlem Field Recordings
  • American Folk Art Museum
Photos by award-winning photographer Jane Feldman

Listen and Purchase Harlem Field Recordings

at viennacarrollmusic.com/music/

“Harlem Field Recordings” CD Release Party

Friday, March 6, 2020,
5:30 – 7:15 pm,

American Folk Art Museum,
2 Lincoln Square (corner of W. 66th St. & Columbus Ave.),
New York, NY,
Take 1 train to 66th St. stop and walk one block east
See map/directions

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.

"Harlem Field Recordings" by Vienna Carroll and The Folk

Vienna Carroll at the American Folk Art Museum

“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

Vienna Carroll & Band at Folk Art Museum of NYC
Newman Taylor, Keith Johnston, Vienna Carroll and Stanley Banks

 

Vienna Carroll at the Folk Art Museum in NYC

 

Vienna Carroll at the American Folk Art Museum

Vienna Carroll: Duo, Trio, Band

Duo, Trio, Band…we love to groove and entertain you! We perform everywhere from local Harlem nursing homes, to libraries, to small and large museums, outdoor music festivals, and corporate events in the tri-state region. We have shows focusing on jazz, Black Roots Music, slave work songs, Black History Month presentations, popular songs and more. And of course, we love clubs, bars and restaurants. Make your event a extra special one, contact me to discuss the possibilities.

Contact: vienna@viennacarroll.com

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Vienna Carroll has written a popular, award-winning musical about an enslaved family escaping on the underground railroad to the York County, Pennsylvania area. See Singin Wid A Sword In Ma Han.