The Culture LP + Joe's Pub Celebrate Black and Indigenous Performing Artists in NYC
Joe's Pub, a program of the Public Theater, is an independent, non-profit music venue, dedicated to supporting performing artists at every stage of their careers.
The Culture LP is excited to partner with Joe’s Pub to as they continue to play a vital role in fulfilling the Public's mission to serve audiences and artists alike, as an active member of New York City's creative community.
As a part of our collaboration, we’re going to help bring awareness and context to their diverse spectrum of artists. Read their Equity, Diversity and Inclusion plan here.
Martha Redbone and her band of Funkateers honor and celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day in traditional song, rhythm, blues and bring home the funk to Joe's Pub. Tickets will go fast, book early.
Martha Redbone is an American blues and soul singer of part Choctaw, European and African-American descent. She has won awards for her contemporary Native American music. Her music is a mix of rhythm and blues, and soul music influences, fused with elements of traditional Native American music.
Harlem-based musician and solo performer Queen Esther brings her Southern roots to the Joe’s Pub stage on October 17th.
Queen Esther, raised in Atlanta, Georgia and embedded in Charleston, South Carolina’s culturally rich and enigmatic Lowcountry – a region with African traditions and Black folkways that span centuries and continue to inform her work - is a Harlem-based vocalist, songwriter, musician and solo performer. Although she is often described as “...a Black Lucinda Williams…” (Vanity Fair), vocal descriptives have included “...Aretha Franklinesque…” (Feedback) and have shifted easily from Billie Holiday and Sly Stone to Sarah Vaughn and Melissa Etheridge. Her self-released critically acclaimed Black Americana album Gild The Black Lily continues to make waves since its March 2021 release.
Enjoy this 2013 performance by Malilk Work. The South African press named Malik “the griot from New York, Shakespeare of the streets.”
NYC native MC, poet, actor, writer, and rapper Malik Work bares his soul and shares his story through the lens of NYC in VERSES @ WORK. It connects the world of hip-hop and jazz, as well as the early millennium nightlife of the Lower East Side of Manhattan and intertwines verse, video, live music, musical theater, hip-hop, spoken word, dance, and theatrical monologue in a captivating, vibrant, and energetic show.
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