Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Concert | The Martha Redbone Roots Project: The Garden of Love – Songs of William Blake
On sale June 1, 11 AM EST
$60; $50 for Morgan members
Complementing the exhibition William Blake: Paradise Lost, The Martha Redbone Roots Project will perform their groundbreaking album The Garden of Love – Songs of William Blake (2012). Blake’s poems are set to Redbone’s signature blend of Appalachian folk and blues music, bringing new dimensions to both the poet’s words and the roots of American music.
The Martha Redbone Roots Project is “a brilliant collision of cultures…” (The New Yorker). Martha and her ensemble of masterful musicians take their audiences on an American music journey, weaving sounds that conjure 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 and 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.
Martha Redbone is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and 2021 United States Artist fellow. She won the 2020 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play for her work on the 2022 Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.
This concert takes place in Gilder Lehrman Hall on the Ground Floor. Doors to the Hall will open 30 minutes before the concert begins. Attendees are invited to view William Blake: Paradise Lost before the concert from 5:30 to 7 PM.
Please e-mail public_programs@themorgan.org with questions about accessibility.
