Violin virtuoso brings ‘Southern Comfort’ to Brooklyn
Regina Carter, a renowned violin virtuoso, will be bringing her blend of Appalachian fiddle tunes, church hymns and folk music to the borough when she performs in concert at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College on April 16.
The 8 p.m. concert, part of the Brooklyn Center’s 2015-16 season, is called “Regina Carter’s Southern Comfort,” after an album Carter released in 2014. The concert will give Carter the chance to pay tribute to her paternal grandfather, an Alabama coal miner, with a mix of vibrant music from the south, according to a Brooklyn Center press release.
Carter was named a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship in 2006.