Vocalist, songwriter, composer, educator, and Spiegeltent favorite Martha Redbone returns to Bard with her “brilliant collision of cultures” (The New Yorker)—indigenous soul, blues, and down-home American roots music, all performed by “some of New York’s finest jazz and blues musicians and Redbone’s own stirring voice and commanding presence” (The Wall Street Journal).

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Martha Redbone

Fisher Center at Bard

Artist, composer, vocalist, and Spiegeltent favorite Martha Redbone returns to Bard SummerScape with a musical celebration of the words and legacy of bell hooks. In this developmental work-in-process, Redbone and longtime musical collaborator Aaron Whitby embark on a multidisciplinary musical exploration of bell hooks’s landmark poetry collection, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place. Known for their powerful and award-winning settings of poets Ntozake Shange in for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (2019 Drama Desk Award; 2022 Broadway revival) and William Blake on the album, The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake, Redbone and Whitby channel bell hooks’s meditative, confessional, and political lyricism into a genre-defying soundscape that echoes the spirit of her Kentucky roots and heritage she shares with Redbone.

Robin Macatangay

Events

Upcoming events

10 - 11 Jul, 2026

Martha Redbone · Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

Past events

Jul 12, 2025

Martha Redbone · Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

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