Here is my Love tribute to all the protestors and to all our families. Which in the end, is why we're out there. Thank you Mississippi Fred McDowell for the timely and classic blues You Gotta Move.
“Carroll’s new album includes both politically-charged reinventions of classic blues and gospel themes as well as more traditional numbers and originals which sound like 19th century standards. It’s classic music as you’ve probably never heard it before” - delarue
“Superb recording” - Ron Weinstock
Come help us celebrate the change in season, the change of things to come. We honor our individual and collective responsibilities in this unprecedented movement as we seek justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and those maligned and killed by a deeply rooted and tragically flawed system.
We sing for our future and for Freedom. At a healthy social distance. Come join us.
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41st Annual Mystic Sea Music Festival, 75 Greenmanville Ave, Mystic
We'll be featuring the stories and songs of Black sailors in the Underground Railroad throughout the four days of workshops, concerts, hands-on demonstrations, and a scholarly symposium – all celebrating the music of the sea!
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Cold Springs Harbor Whaling Museum, 301 Main St, Cold Spring Harbor
Hear heroic tales about the free and enslaved Black men who worked on the waters prior to the Civil War and who helped free their enslaved brethren. Join Newman Taylor Baker (washboard) and me in celebrating them and singing their sea shanties.
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"Harlem Field Recordings" is our new CD and it is roots and funky and Americana and fun! We love grooving those good old traditional tunes - and for you to sing along with us. Come on out and join the celebration.
Vienna on vocals, Stanley Banks (George Benson) on bass, Newman Taylor Baker (Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Henry Grimes) on washboards, and Keith Johnston (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Jon Hendricks) on guitar.
5th Annual Roots n Ruckus Fest. FREE Huge Lineup, don't be late.
Vienna Carroll. It’s the fire in her belly that lights up the fire in your soul. Her folksy blues and soulful funk take you back to church, back to the roots. The passion in her voice and her masterful storytelling fill a room, draw you in and hold you close. Vienna's larger-than-life performances channel influences from Ray Charles, Dinah Washington and her great-grandmother Susie Stokes' Wheatfield Church of the Living God.
American Folk Art Museum 20
Harlem Field Recordings
Big Eyed Blues Festival
Jalopy Theater
Cooperage
American Folk Art Museum 19
Dixon Place
Harlem Arts Festival
Mamapalooza
Kickin Country Festival
Living Room
CD Release Party