Lincoln Center Out of Doors Presents 30th Annual Roots of American Music: Martha Redbone Roots Project, Trixie Whitley and Hurray for the Riff Raff, 8/10

The remarkable Martha Redbone Roots Project band perform songs from Martha's highly acclaimed new album The Garden of Love - Songs of William Blake, at Lincoln Center Out of Doors on Saturday, August 10th at 1:30 p.m. at Hearst Plaza. The line-up also includes the fabulous artists Trixie Whitley and Hurray for the Riff Raff.

In an unexpected twist, Ms. Redbone, the "charismatic indie-soul diva" (Time Out New York) has returned to the music of her childhood years with her grandparents in Black Mountain, Kentucky. Warm, woodsy melodies take flight through the fusion of largely prewar string-band instrumentation and her heart-worn mountain holler, as Sister Martha tells William Blake's tales of eternal humanitarian values through music distilled in the Southland since before America was founded. The album was co-written with Martha's songwriting partner, Aaron Whitby and produced by multiple Grammy Award Winner, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's John McEuen.

Martha exclaims, "Along with this concert in our home base comes a lot of "pinch me, I'm dreaming" moments. Firstly, sharing the stage with Trixie Whitley and Hurray for the Riff Raff, secondly, being the 30th Anniversary of American Roots Music at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, and all the wonderful support we've had in NYC, I'm humbled and honored to perform our album, 'The Garden of Love - Songs of William Blake' at a place I've dreamed about since I was a teenager. "

The Martha Redbone Roots Project band features Martha on lead vocals and hand percussion; Aaron Whitby (musical director, keyboards, melodica), Teddy Kumpel (guitar, banjo, vocals); George Rush (upright bass), Craig Judelman (violin), Alan "AB" Burroughs (guitar) and Butter on drums.

SHOW DETAILS
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Hearst Plaza
West 65th Street (at Columbus Avenue)
New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-LIN-COLN
Price: FREE
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For more information: http://www.lcoutofdoors.org/hurray-for-the-riff-riff?show_date=2013-08-10%2013:30:00
http://martharedbone.com

Roots of American Music is sponsored by Toyota.
Martha Redbone's LIVE VIDEOS & All Things Considered & videos:
Martha Redbone interviewed by NPR's Robert Siegel on All Things Considered: http://www.npr.org/2012/10/11/162714267/blakes-poems-reborn-as-bluesy-folk-tunes-burn-bright

Click here to see a LIVE performance of the title track at 92nd Y Tribeca.
"Hear the Voice of the Bard" LIVE VIDEO performance (courtesy of Michael Johnathon's WoodSongs broadcast) .
Nothing but love for Martha Redbone's The Garden of Love - Songs of William Blake:

"In a brilliant collision of cultures, the powerful blues and soul singer Martha Redbone has recorded an album called "The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake," which was produced by John McEuen, of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. In it, the mystical, humanistic words of the eighteenth-century English poet are fused with the melodies, drones, and rhythms of the Appalachian string-band music that Redbone absorbed as a child from her grandparents, in Black Mountain, Kentucky." The New Yorker

"Between Redbone's lucid, subtle force and the modernized Appalachian settings she fits to the poet's stanzas, she's created a new body of folk song by a lyricist who compares favorably to, well, Bob Dylan. A major find." Robert Christgau MSN.com

"A truly hypnotic and eloquent roots Americana exploration..." Jonathan Widran, All Music

"A delightful surprise...Terrific album." Robert Siegel, NPR's All Things Considered

"...an organic, gorgeous feast for ears and minds." Dusty Wright The Huffington Post

"... one of those wonderful meetings of minds and culture that comes along once in a while that literally takes your breath away." Richard Marcus, Blogcritics

5 STAR review! "'The Garden of Love' has pleasing radiance. You can't ask much more than to have your music served up raw, rootsy and full of such emotional depth." Joe Ross, Roots Music Report

Bio:
It may come as a surprise to some that Martha Redbone, a junior Funkadelic, indie soul pioneer and a woman noted for purveying the wilder shores of rhythm & blues on prior releases Home Of the Brave and Skintalk, recorded her new album, The Garden of Love - Songs of William Blake over a few magical days in the fabled center of country music, Nashville, Tennessee. Yet, proudly retracing the path of her uniquely American mixed heritage back to its earliest source, she is merely taking the inevitable next step of a maverick artist who has never been chained by borders. Americana is her natural homecoming, sonic and otherwise.

Martha Redbone is a musician of Cherokee, Choctaw, Shawnee and African-American descent. Her music is a mix of rhythms and roots music fused with elements of traditional Native American music. In early 2007, Redbone's Skintalk won The 6th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best R&B Album which followed on from the various Native American Music Awards that helped make her the leading lady in contemporary Native American music ("The 'Aretha Franklin' of Indian Country"). Martha has sung alongside Bonnie Raitt, Pete Seeger, Rita Collidge and George Clinton, scatted with Randy Brecker and rocked with Nona Hendryx, visited in Dakar with Youssou N'Dour and and paid homage with Lisa Fischer. Alongside her music Redbone is an active advocate on issues important to her, she conducts an annual traditional music workshop and embraces her role as a community organizer. The focus of her advocacy at this time is the issue of hunger and poverty in Appalachia, whence the music of her new album hails, and she has teamed up in this regard with WhyHunger.org and their Artists Against Hunger & Poverty program.

Purchase on amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Love-Songs-William-Blake/dp/B008A6QAR8