February 12th, 2021 at 6pm EST
Kashiah Hunter
Join us for a performance by Kashiah Hunter (of Kashiah Hunter and the ATL Crew!) A favorite at the Brooklyn Folk Festival and the Steel Guitar UnConvention, Kashiah Hunter plays lap and pedal steel guitar in the Sacred Steel gospel tradition. Sacred Steel is a musical style and African-American gospel tradition that developed in a group of related Pentecostal churches in the 1930s. Since then, Sacred Steel has grown and flourished in churches and beyond!
February 21st, 2021 at 6pm EST
Vienna Carroll
Vienna Carroll is a singer, playwright, actor, historian and herbalist. Vienna learned music from the Black Ladies of her youth, including her fearsome great grandmother who played guitar to country singer Minnie Pearl on Saturday night radio but only proper Pentecostal chords in church on Sunday. Vienna’s latest CD, “Harlem Field Recordings,” grew out of her project “Folk First: Black Roots Music” celebrating early Black music