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Friday, June 7th, see Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston at the American Folk Art Museum

Come out to Free Music Friday at the American Folk Art Museum.
Vienna and Keith will be performing from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.

Vienna Carroll and Keith Johnston at the American Folk Art MuseumThe 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.

Postcrypt Coffee House

 

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

Jazz – America’s Classic Music

This month I’m celebrating America’s classic music – Jazz – with a newly refurbished jazz page!  I am blessed an honored to be  joined by Michael Howell and Bruce Edwards on guitar in bringing you some of the standard jazz tunes by Duke Ellington, Cole Porter and others.  I hope you enjoy them and thanks for listening.

 

 

What For? Why Not?

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

Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston in What For? Why Not? FestivalThe “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.

Lady Spies and the Slave Grapevine

Sun. November 13: 1pm & 3 pm (two 25-minute shows)
Sunday Stories: A Civil War Series (Play 4 of 7)
“Lady Spies and the Slave Grapevine”
Hudson River Museum
511 Warburton Avenue
Yonkers, NY directions/map
Weds. hours: Noon – 5pm; 914-963-4550, hrm.org.
Adults  $6; Seniors (62+): $4; Members Free

Mary Elizabeth Bowser
Mary Elizabeth Bowser

Lady Spies and the Slave Grapevine
With Storyteller Vienna Carroll and Performer Keith Johnston

A formerly enslaved fugitive from Maryland describes her life as the lady’s maid of a secret Union sympathizer to her new friends in The Hills.
Q&A follows.

This  presentation, told through story and song, is part of a series about “The Westchester Hills Community & The Civil War” inspired by the Red Grooms Civil War exhibit at the Hudson River Museum. Learn more about the grand history of the African American experience in the Civil War through the human story of the resilient and heroic African American community–The Hills Community–in Westchester County, NY. Perfect for all children and adults living in Westchester County and the greater New York City area.

Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Union Spy, headstoneThis Sunday afternoon come explore:
· the larger-than-life, walk-through scenes created by Red Grooms;
· experience the Multimedia Play; and,
· Docent Tours of exhibit Red Grooms: The Blue and The Gray 

Thank you to Dr Edythe Ann Quinn for bringing The Hills community ancestors out of the shadows through her book Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and The Hills Community, Westchester County, New York by historian/author Dr. Edythe Ann Quinn. Read first chapter.

Download flyer of all seven shows in this series The Union & the Confederacy in Westchester: African Americans and the Civil War

Hudson River Museum, Sunday October 16, 2016

Vienna Carroll and Keith Johnston Perform

Sunday October 16, 1 & 3pm
Mr Lincoln in Peekskill – Members from The Hills’ Methodist-Episcopal Zion Church of Colored People attend President Lincoln’s Peekskill appearance.

Family Day at the Hudson River Museum – Free

Hudson River Museum (hrm.org)
511 Warburton Avenue
Yonkers, NY

Metro North to Glenwood, a short walk or Metro North to Yonkers, a short ride

 

Thank you to Dr Edythe Ann Quinn for bringing The Hills community ancestors out of the shadows through her book Freedom  Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and The Hills Community, Westchester County, New York.  2005,  SUNY Press.

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