Native & African-American vocalist/songwriter/composer/educator, Martha Redbone, is known for her unique gumbo of folk, blues, and gospel rooted from her childhood in Kentucky infused with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn.
Drawing influences from her indigenous ancestry, multidisciplinary artist Martha Redbone fuses sounds from the deep south musical genres of gospel, bluegrass, and soul for a knee tapping, hand clapping musical experience.
Set Times:
6pm - DJ Daniel French of Las Cafeteras
7pm - Maritri Garrett
8:30pm - Martha Redbone Roots Project
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Native & African-American vocalist/songwriter/composer/educator, Martha Redbone, is known for her unique gumbo of folk, blues, and gospel from her childhood in Harlan County, Kentucky infused with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn. Inheriting the powerful vocal range of her gospel-singing African American father and the resilient spirit of her mother’s Cherokee/Shawnee/Choctaw culture, Redbone broadens the boundaries of American Roots music. With songs and storytelling that share her life experience as a Native and Black woman and mother in the new millennium, Redbone gives voice to issues of social justice, bridging traditions from past to present, connecting cultures, and celebrating the human spirit.
Her album The Garden of Love- Songs of William Blake, produced by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band founder/ Grammy Winner John McEuen is an unexpected twist — “a brilliant collision of cultures” (The New Yorker) — Redbone’s magnificent voice, Blake’s immortal words, and a masterful cornucopia of roots music (blues, gospel, bluegrass, soul and traditional Southeastern Woodlands). Featured on All Things Considered the album released on her own imprint Blackfeet Productions rose to the Top Ten on Amazon Folk Charts for many weeks and has become the bedrock of her live shows bringing audiences to their feet with her fiery old time mountain gospel singing and foot-stomping energy.
Redbone is Composer for the Public Theater’s 2019 production of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuff”, a revival/reimagining of the 1976 classic choreopoem by the late Ntozake Shange. Rave reviews with notable mentions for Redbone’s original compositions and score “supreme music... brilliant” (NY Daily News). The Redbone and Whitby’s newest work is BONE HILL, an interdisciplinary musical theater work inspired by the lives of Redbone’s family in the hills of coal-mining Appalachia. Bone Hill is a recipient of the NEFA National Theater Project Creation and Touring Grant and National Performance Network Creation Fund.
Maritri Garrett is a classically trained and self-taught multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer who lived in New York for over twenty years as a full-time working musician. She sang backup for Barbra Streisand and Michael Amante, composed music for the Washington ballet and is in the Soulfolk Experience, a band comprised of multi-instrumentalists, vocalists, and writers. She has scored several films, theater pieces, apps and many live theater shows in New York and traveled extensively as a solo musician and with ensembles. She currently resides in Southern California.
Daniel French (Mohawk, Chicano) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer & MC from the San Gabriel Valley & co-founder of Las Cafeteras. He has been rocking the mic from Bonnaroo to the Hollywood Bowl & beyond bridging traditional sounds with modern frequencies.
Learn more at Daniel French Instagram
This performance is made possible in part by a grant from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture and funded in part by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation.
