Martha Redbone
1:30-2:25 p.m. Sunday
Blues Tent
Singer-songwriter Martha Redbone draws from her African-American and Eastern Cherokee and Choctaw ancestry in her music, exploring the roots of Black American music and combining Native American traditions for a powerful, unique style of blues and soul.
Much of Redbone’s work is deeply personal. For instance, on her 2012 album “The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake,” Redbone found inspiration in the English poet Blake and dug into Appalachian roots music for a tribute to Black Mountain, Kentucky, where as a child she spent time with her grandparents.
Along with her songwriting, Redbone also is an educator, using music to teach about Native American traditions and the heavy history of displacement, eradication and erasure. Recently, Redbone and her husband, Aaron Whitby, developed “Bone Hill: The Concert,” a multi-disciplinary theater work based in Redbone’s familial history in Kentucky.
At Jazz Fest, Redbone also will be interviewed by Brenda Dardar Robichaux, the former principal chief of the United Houma Nation and a wetlands activist, at noon on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage.
The 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival second weekend features headliners Dead & Company, Santana, Buddy Guy, Jon Batiste, Kane Brown, Ludacris, H.E.R. and Trombone Shorty.
Gambit’s picks for the last day of Jazz Fest, from Lulu and the Broadsides to Herbie Hancock, Ne-Yo and Tom Jones
