Marching Into Spring ShowLafayette Presbyterian Church,
85 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY
1-7 pm entire show
Fabulous Black designers including Brenda Brunson-Bey’s Tribal Truths one-of-a-kind standout clothing designs and Melody’s Kiini Ibura spectacular jewelry among others. Healthy food, a fashion show, and Vienna Carroll singing!
I’ll be on at about 2 pm, singing roots and blues favorites with a special tribute to Black women.
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
Big Eyed Blues Festival– Vienna Carroll & The Folk
– Irving Louis Lattin Trio
– Beareather & Brown Liquor Sounds
Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, NY (map)
6-7 pm– Odysseus Bailer & Erin Beebee Blues Dance Demo & Lesson
7 pm– Vienna & The Folk, don’t be late!
Spirituals, work songs, and blues
$25 in advance ($30 door)
Read more & Buy tickets
Join us, Vienna Carroll and Keith Johnston, as we celebrate our Ancestors in stories and songs.
Living Room, 134 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn (Bedford Avenue stop on the L train)
10$
Click link for tickets:
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/
Quakers helped. Mostly, Black people Freed Ourselves through the "Slave Grapevine." Watch the story of African Queens kidnapped, enslaved and resisting. Plus, U.S. Colored Troops and the Slave Grapevine in the Black freedom struggle in the U.S.
Read a brief history of slavery and African rebellions in America freeing ourselves.