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.
Folk 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.
Before there was jazz or blues or gospel, there was Black folk music, the foundation of American music today. Come enjoy songs from a time when you had to make music to hear it. Songs from your Granny’s country church down South (or the little church you pass by right here in Harlem); songs from the vegetable man every Thursday; songs that helped our ancestors endure prison and escape slavery; songs of joy. Enjoy, join in, sing and dance with us.
https://soundcloud.com/viennacarroll/singin-wid-a-sword-in-ma-han
Want to hear more? Come see Vienna Carroll & Friends, Featuring Keith Johston Henrique, Prince and Newman Taylor Baker perform live at the Harlem Arts Festival!
June 29, 2014 at 5:30pm. Main Stage. Marcus Garvey Park.
Festival Lineup: http://harlemartsfestival.com
Profile, Vienna & Friends: http://harlemartsfestival.com/portfolio/vienna-carroll-friends
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.
