Martha Redbone “Bone Hill: The Concert”

Bone Hill is a musical work for theater created and developed by librettist/composers Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby at Joe's Pub and the Public Theater. In its current iteration, Redbone becomes the characters from four generations of a family in the hills of coal-mining Appalachia, and the musicians are the townsfolk. In telling their stories, the audience is taken on an epic, unexpected American exploration of family, history, and cultural identity.

Inspired by her own life and the women Martha Redbone is descended from, the lives of the Bone family members are told in songs that span a swathe of American music telling a parallel history. The music in this extraordinary performance ranges from traditional Cherokee chants and lullabies to Bluegrass, Blues, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Rock & Roll, and Rhythm & Blues.

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Roots rocker Martha Redbone occupies a unique niche in American music. Her eclectic style amplifies her mixed Native American and African American heritage, her Appalachian birthplace, and her Brooklyn upbringing. A prolific songwriter, composer for theater, and creator of an acclaimed folk-style setting of the poetry of William Blake, her work is united by her powerful, deeply moving voice.