April Armstrong was awarded the 2020 J.J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Award from the National Storytelling Network and was awarded the 2015 BRIO Award for Storytelling from the Bronx Council for the Arts. Her debut CD, The Cat Came Back: Stories and Songs with a Jazzy Twist won a Parent’s Choice Award (Silver). April performed at the Exchange Place at the 2023 National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, TN. She has presented her one-woman show about America’s first black female Barnstormer, Two Wings to Heaven: The Bessie Coleman Story at the Kravis Center (FL), The Apollo Theater (NYC) and at the Rhode Island Black Storytellers’ FUNDA FEST 2024. She been a featured teller at the National Association of Black Storytellers’ (NABS) Conference, The National Storytelling Network Conference; Speak Story Series in WV, The Grapevine, Beaver Tales Storytelling Festival, Connecticut Storytelling Festival, Hudson River Clearwater, The Mohegan, The Logan Center/University of Chicago, Rockland County Storytelling Festival, Rowayton’s Tellabration and the Story Space. Visit her online: www.aprilarmstrong.com