Music Director

Singer, songwriter, composer, and educator Martha Redbone broadens the boundaries of American Roots music with her eclectic and foot-stomping style: amplifying her Afro-Indigenous heritage with the sounds of Appalachian blues, folk, and gospel music. This talk will focus on the intersections of African American and Southeastern Native American culture in music.

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Martha Redbone: American Roots and Rhythms

Bard College

For Colored Girls Broadway composer/songwriter/vocalist Martha Redbone and her band of Funkateers led by longtime collaborator/Music Director Aaron Whitby celebrate Black History Month with Afro-Indigenous stories and songs in Folk, Roots, Rhythm and Blues that ALWAYS bring home the funk to Joe's Pub. This is the full band’s first NYC show of the year. Book tickets early, not to be missed.!

Martha Redbone: Indigenous Funk Party

Joe's Pub

One of the most vital voices in American Roots music, Martha Redbone has been lauded by John Pareles of the New York Times for holding "both the taut determination of mountain music and the bite of American Indian singing." A Fellow of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Redbone is a multi-award-winning musician and charismatic songwriter celebrated for her tasty gumbo of roots music embodying the folk and country sounds of her childhood in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky mixed with the eclectic grit of her teenage years in pregentrified Brooklyn

Aaron Whitby

Music Director

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 6, 2025

Martha Redbone Roots Project · Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Past events

May 4, 2024

Martha Redbone: American Roots and Rhythms · Bard College

Feb 10, 2023

Martha Redbone: Indigenous Funk Party · Public Theater

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