"Conversations" presented by Summer Play Lab

The final 2024 Summer Play Lab showing will be Conversations on August 4 at 4pm. Created and performed by Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby, in collaboration with The Civilians, NYC, this music-theater piece features songs drawn from Redbone’s conversations with tribal elders, family members and advisors who have been in her life for decades. Redbone is celebrated for her tasty gumbo of roots music that combines the folk and mountain blues sounds of her Appalachian childhood and the electric grit of her teenage years in pre-gentrified Brooklyn. She inherited her powerful gospel-singing father's voice and the resilient spirit of her mother's Southwestern heritage. The New Yorker calls her music "a brilliant collision of cultures." 
 
Ancram Center for the Arts is an award-winning theater located in New York's Hudson Valley. Housed in an historic Grange Hall, Ancram Center has since 2016 presented groundbreaking theater and musical performances by nationally recognized theater artists. Ancram Center for the Arts receives significant annual support from the New York State Council on the Arts and in 2023 was awarded a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. For tickets and information visit www.ancramcenter.org.