ROBERTA: A Tribute to Roberta Flack

Join us for an intimate celebration of a legend. Before she was a global icon and four-time Grammy-winning superstar, Roberta Flack shared her gifts right here as a teacher in Farmville. This February, her story returns home.

Walker Entertainment, Farmville Community Arts Council, Emerge Art Gallery, and the African American Music Series present ‘Roberta.’ This is more than a concert—it is a multi-sensory experience. The concert features Glyra & The Rakiem Walker Project, a stellar lineup of artists, and special guests, we are bringing her timeless songbook to life through music and movement.

Set during her birthday month, Black History Month, and Valentine’s weekend—and marking the one-year anniversary of her passing—this evening honors her legacy of love and social consciousness. Relive the magic of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” “Killing Me Softly,” and “Where Is the Love” in a warm, soulful setting.

ABOUT CARROLL V. DASHIELL, JR.

The North Carolina Arts Council, Pitt County Arts Council, and the Greenville-Pitt Convention & Visitors Bureau named Carroll V. Dashiell, Jr. Artistic Director of The African American Music Series in 2016. Carroll Dashiell is a native of Washington, DC. A graduate of Howard University, with citations in Who's Who in Music and Down Beat Magazine, Carroll has been recognized for excellence in the music industry as a bassist, musical director/conductor and also as a composer/arranger. Affectionately known as CVD, he has been involved in academia for more than three decades serving as professor of music at the Saint Mary's College of Maryland, University of the District of Columbia and East Carolina University in North Carolina. He is Professor Emeritus, East Carolina University School of Music and currently serves as Chairman, Department of Music Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts Howard University. CVD is the producer and writer of A Tribute to Motown Records, (a stage show and concert that celebrates some of the African-American's cultural contributions to the music industry, staged in the tradition of the famous touring Motown Review) that is selling out theaters and venues nation-wide. In addition to composing, writing and arranging, CVD is continuing his performance as jazz bassist and is very humbled to be the Founder of the Dr. Billy Taylor Jazz Festival, named in honor of his mentor.