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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.

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.