MARTHA REDBONE ROOTS PROJECT
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The Martha Redbone Roots Project “a brilliant collision of cultures…” The New Yorker Magazine;
Ms. Redbone and her ensemble of masterful musicians take their audiences on an American music journey weaving the sounds of music that conjures up stories from the early days of her childhood in the Appalachian Mountains embodying the folk, blues, soul and gospel sounds from her ancestors of the Great Black Migration mixed with the Indigenous foundation of the region. Taking you to church on the mountaintop, the Martha Redbone Roots Project invites you through sound and story to her HOME.
The Martha Redbone Roots Project are:
Martha Redbone: Vocals, percussion
Aaron Whitby- Piano
Charlie Burnham- Violin
Fred Cash, Jr. – Bass
Martha Redbone is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, music educator, celebrated for her tasty gumbo of roots music embodying the folk and mountain blues sounds of her childhood in the Appalachian hills of Kentucky, mixed with the eclectic grit of teenage years in pre-gentrified Brooklyn. Inheriting her powerful gospel-singing father’s voice and the resilient spirit of her mother’s Southeastern Indigenous culture, Redbone broadens the boundaries of American Roots music with songs and storytelling that
share her life experience as an Afro-Indigenous woman and mother navigating in the new millennium. Martha also works in partnership with longtime collaborator/husband Aaron Whitby. Their works give voice to issues of social justice, connecting cultures and celebrating the human spirit.
Her album The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake (produced by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band founder and Grammy-winner John McEuen), is “a brilliant collision of cultures” (New Yorker). Redbone and Whitby are the composers, arrangers and orchestrators of original music and score for the 2022 Broadway revival of “For Colored Girls Who HaveConsidered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuff, the 1976 classic choreopoem by the late Ntozake Shange, premiering at the Booth Theater, garnering seven Tony Award nominations and critical acclaim. Redbone and Whitby are the 2020 Drama Desk Award recipients for Outstanding Music in a Play and the 2020 Audelco Award recipient for Outstanding Composer of Original Music and Score for the Off-Broadway revival. Martha Redbone is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow.