With Keith Johnston
Folk First comes to the Mt Vernon Public Library, 28 S. First Ave, Mt Vernon, NY

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.
This sweet Ethiopian restaurant is the perfect place to hear Vienna and internationally renowned guitarist Michael Howell, while enjoying a refreshing drink, an appetizer or dinner. Limited seating, get there early.
A, B, C, D to 145th St. Walk to north end of train to exit and you’re a block away. (Check out Vienna’s garden on your way – corner. of 148/St Nick)
Tsion Cafe is an Ethiopian cafe with great food and honey wine, the menu is really fun. Some claim they have the best coffee in Harlem. I personally love the Ethiopian tea.
Don’t miss this!
Vienna electrifies audiences with sparkling rhythms, energy and humor, sharing her beloved Black Roots music – spirituals, work songs, and early/prison blues – and jazz and pop favorites.
She is joined by:
Hilliard Greene – Bass. A regular at Minton’s, Greene performed and recorded with Jimmy Scott for 20+ years, serving as his Musical Director from 1995 to 2011. Greene was also Cecil Taylor’s Concert Master for his group “Phtongos.”
Newman Taylor Baker – Washboard / Percussion. Best known for Singin’ Drums, his exploration of the washboard, and his work with musicians Henry Threadgill, Billy Bang, Henry Grimes and Leroy Jenkins.
Keith Johnston – Guitar. Artistic Director, American Theatre of Harlem. Co-founder, Back-A-Yard Theater. Musical Director, RUINED, Denver Center. Director BET 30 Anniversary Upfront! Program Director, CUNY Creative Arts Team.
At the Living Room (which is now in Williamsburg, Brooklyn – see map). Check it out, lots of space, great sound, wonderful hosts. Only 10$
Friday May 1, 2015. 7pm Tickets
I Just Want To Make Love To You
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.