Jazz Concerts

Performer Biography

Linda is an entrepreneur, museum curator, songwriter, entertainer, lecturer, tour consultant and opinion writer.

She currently serves as Director of Programs and Events at the Harriet Tubman Museum and Education Center in Cambridge, Maryland Managing the “Jazz at the Mural Series,” education programs, author/storyteller engagements, walking tours, lectures, and grant writing.

She joined the museum after embarking upon her first 158 mile walk to “Freedom” following the steps of Harriet Tubman from Cambridge, MD to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2020. Creating “We Walk with Harriet” a walking campaign and brand for walks on the Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Trail.

As a songwriter wrote and recorded – 11 songs titles, “Little Bird”, “Shaking off the Dust”, “Alone”, “Don’t you Dare”, “Chopin’s Clouds”, “Wondrously Made”, “He’ll Find Me”, “Awake to Thunder”, “Lock the Door”, “Freedom”, “Storms Coming”. And recorded 4 CD(s) – “Don’t you Dare”, “Shaking off the Dust”, “Home for Christmas” and “I Got Shoes.”

As Entertainer, performed in the Panama Jazz Festival, Panama, the Rhein Music Festival, Frankhurt, Germany, The Jazz Prefecture Tour, Tokyo, Japan, and a host of appearances in Paris, France, Dubronik, Croatia, Venice, Italy, Gothenburg, Sweden. Stateside in Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, New Orleans, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, and D.C.

As Lecturer on topics of Tubman for AARP, FDIC, Martha’s Table, Montgomery County and Howard County Libraries, State of Delaware, National African American Museum, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hubble Space Center, University of Maryland, Salisbury University, Buttons Farm, Maryland Light House for the Blind and Montgomery County Schools.

As tour consultant, provided tours for Montgomery College, D.C. Public Schools, AARP, B’nai Israel, Government Agencies, and local school districts in Maryland. On a yearly contract for tour services for the American Cruise Line.

As a business owner of Carson Properties operated from 1989-2019, a real estate consulting, development, and property management company. Specializing in the development and management of housing cooperatives in D.C. Sales and rentals of D.C., Maryland, and Virginia housing portfolio. The business is still in operation, now run by Linda’s son.

She has written opinion articles for the Baltimore Banner, AARP and Chesapeake Magazine. And resides in Mitchellville, Md and Cambridge, Md. with her husband, David B. Cole. They have four adult children.