CBMM invites you to experience history with acclaimed singer, storyteller, and teaching artist Vienna Carroll through a pair of free public performances on Saturday, May 17. “We Freed Ourselves: Vienna Carroll and The Folk in Concert” is generously sponsored by the Upper Shore Regional Folklife Center.
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CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE 5PM CONCERT
Family Concert with Vienna Carroll and The Folk
Date/Time: Saturday, May 17, 1pm
Location: Welcome Center Veranda
Cost: Free for CBMM members and general admission guests
Families are invited to join Vienna Carroll and The Folk for an engaging, interactive concert. This family-friendly program blends music, storytelling, and hands-on artmaking to explore the powerful history of the maritime Underground Railroad.
Evening Concert: Vienna Carroll and The Folk
Date/Time: Saturday, May 17, 5pm
Location: Van Lennep Auditorium & available virtually
Cost: Free (Registration is recommended.)
In this moving performance, Vienna Carroll and The Folk present a dynamic concert that brings to life the stories of Black heroes and self-emancipators. Through music rooted in the Black church, folk spirituals, and infused with a modern African diaspora groove, the performance honors history while inviting reflection and celebration.
About Vienna Carroll
Vienna Carroll’s rich soulful sound takes you back to her first music love, the Black church. She tells forgotten stories of Black heroes and presents those old songs through a modern lens to make: Afro-Future Roots Music.
Vienna learned music from the Black Ladies of her youth, including her fearsome great grandmother who played guitar to Grand Ole Opry radio on Saturday nights but only proper Pentecostal chords on Sundays. When visiting her maternal grandmother’s 125-acre Alabama farm, Vienna joined in the Sunday church services an hour’s drive away down a dusty road, where singing was often accompanied only by the hand clapping and shouting of its fervent members.
Vienna formalized her studies of early Black music at Yale University with a BA in African American Studies. Her influences are Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Ray Charles and the Black church.