A Conversation with Martha Redbone

Martha Redbone’s music embodies the folk, indigenous, and mountain blues sounds of her childhood in the Appalachian hills of Kentucky. Her latest album is “The Garden of Love- Songs of William Blake”, produced by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band founder/Grammy Winner John McEuen (2012). Alongside her career as a recording artist and songwriter, Martha Redbone has maintained a steady involvement with causes she believes in. Ms. Redbone is contracted by The Department of Indian Education- Louisiana, LaFourche where she teaches Southeastern Traditional Singing Workshop for the United Houma Nation’s Bayou Healers Cultural Enrichment Camp program. Martha guest lectures on subjects ranging from Indigenous rights to the role of the arts in politics and Native American Identity at many institutions including New York University, the University of Michigan and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, to name a few.

Redbone will be presenting her concert Bone Hill on Feb. 1: see https://texasperformingarts.org/season/bone-hill-mccullough-theatre-2020 for a video introduction. RSVP by November 1st.