This Land is Our Land

Martha Redbone, guitar and vocals
Clay Ross, guitar and vocals
Falguni Shah, vocals
Yasushi Nakamura, bass
Ocie Davis, drums

Roots music singer and songwriter Martha Redbone lends her soul-stirring voice to a new collaboration with the genre-defying American Patchwork Quartet, for a performance exploring the United States’ rich cultural tapestry. Redbone draws on her southeastern Cherokee/Choctaw and African American heritage to craft uplifting songs that celebrate the human spirit, infused with the folk and blues sounds of her childhood in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. She has said, “I feel that the one thing that still resonates physically and emotionally with people is music… [It] is the one field where we still have a fighting chance to be able to share some important, powerful, profound messages.”

This event is part of Cal Performances’ Illuminations: “Fractured History” programming for the 2024–25 season.