Blessings don’t stop, y’all!! Tonight opening for the one and only @robertcrayofficial at @bergenpac Huge thanks to such a wonderful and present audience who showed us a lot of love and even sang along with me! 🎶 What an honor, thank you for belief and support in our music! 💜💜💜💜💜💜Hat: @esenshelheadwear 🎩
Happy Mother’s Day to all who celebrate, one thing I know is that it truly takes a village, hug all you love and choose to be family. Love on each other especially today if you can near or far. Just..LOVE. 💜
Next up in our FWAAMFest 2026 recaps is Martha Redbone!
Martha Redbone is an American vocalist, songwriter, composer, educator, and United States Artist Fellow, celebrated for her “brilliant collision of cultures” (The New Yorker), embodying the folk and mountain blues sounds of her childhood in “Coal country” Harlan County, Kentucky with the eclectic grit of her teenage years in pre-gentrified Brooklyn. Inheriting her powerful gospel-singing father’s voice and the resilient spirit of her mother’s Southeastern Indigenous and African American culture, Martha’s culture and heritage broadens the boundaries of American Roots music. Her songs and storytelling share her life experience as an Afro-Indigenous mother in an ever-changing world.
#fwaamfest #blackmusic #fortworthmusic #indigenousmusic #rootsmusic
TGIF family!! That means I’m starting my day with infectious positivity music from my beautiful friends @theillustriousblacks who are extraordinary interplanetary kaleidoscopic euphoric beings 💜🎶🌈 How do you get your weekend going? Oh and did you RSVP to my FREE show next week in NYC @weeksvilleheritagecenter come through and sing with us! 💜🎶🎤
Released Today! After almost three years of pouring our souls into this, we are thrilled to release this project so dear to us. Happy Mother’s Day weekend! Thank you Dave Eggar for this rare and incredible journey. Thank you to Phil Faconti for every step of the way - and each incredible mother and father and nurturer on this project- Priya Darshini, Norah Jones and Pete Remm, Dika Chartoff, Jessica Rose Weiss, Anne Drummond, Martha Redbone- for your stunning and heartbreaking/warming music- for sharing your very personal stories with us and with the world. Thank you, Andy Waldeck for your masterful engineering and overall artistry, friendship and patience. Thank you Jeff Thomas (for everything!) and Manny Elswick, Hettie Brittz, Johnny Nice, Mike Stephenson, David Schommer, Keita Ogawa, Louis Levitt, Bright Shiny ThingsJim Price, Andy VanDette,who we are honored to have collaborated with on this album.
https://music.lnk.to/xmOER6
#mothersday #newmusic #cello #bassclarinet #chambermusic
FREEDOM is in the Songs- FRIDAY MAY 15, 2026 6:30PM at Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, we are honored to play a very special evening of American Roots Music-Soul, Blues, Gospel, on site at the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America 💜🎶🎤FREE w RSVP @weeksvilleheritagecenter Weeksville Heritage Center w Fred Cash-bass, Marvin Sewell-Guitars, Aaron Whitby-keys, Charlie Burnham-Violin, Keith Anthony Fluitt & Jenny Douglas-Foote on Vox and YOU. Come through, it’s FREE w RSVP 💜🎶🎤💜 #brooklyn #music #freedom #love
On Friday, May 15th, Martha Redbone (@martharedbone ) comes to Weeksville for a special spring concert!
Join us from 6-9 pm as Martha and her ensemble invite us to listen and sing along, honoring Black and Indigenous shared histories through song. Inspired by Weeksville’s “Freedman’s Torchlight (1866),” Martha will debut two new songs created from the archive, reflecting on the legacy of one of the nation’s earliest free Black communities.
RSVP through the link in our bio!
This event is open to families and children of all ages.
Photo: Cedric Pilard
FREEDOM is in the Songs- FRIDAY MAY 15, 2026 6:30PM at Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, we are honored to play a very special evening of American Roots Music-Soul, Blues, Gospel, on site at the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America 💜🎶🎤FREE w RSVP @weeksvilleheritagecenter Weeksville Heritage Center w Fred Cash-bass, Marvin Sewell-Guitars, Aaron Whitby-keys, Charlie Burnham-Violin, Keith Anthony Fluitt & Jenny Douglas-Foote on Vox and YOU. Come through, it’s FREE w RSVP 💜🎶🎤💜 #brooklyn #music #freedom #love
