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MEMORIAL DAY WITH THE NEA NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWS: MICHAEL WHITE, BEAUSOLEIL, MONK BOUDREAUX, DEL MCCOURY, KOKO TAYLOR AND MANY MORE...
American Routes celebrates Memorial Day weekend with a sonic feast from National Endowment for the Arts’ Heritage Fellows—recipients of America’s most prestigious award in folk & traditional arts. We’ll hear music and conversation from past Fellows: bluegrass picker Del McCoury, rockabilly Wanda Jackson, sacred steel guitarists, the Campbell Brothers, and late blues singer Koko Taylor. The 2016 Fellows included: Mardi Gras Indian Chief Monk Boudreaux, Irish accordionist Billy McComiskey and Mexican-American singer Artemio Posadas. Other awardees range from basketmakers in Kentucky and the Penobscot tribe in Maine, to traditional wind instrumentalists from South Dakota and Laos.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Stealing Time Eddie Pennington
Walks the Strings... And Even Sings, Folkways - John Henry John Jackson
American Routes original studio recording, - Barack Obama Boogie Henry Gray & The Cats
Times Are Getting Hard , Lucky Cat - CLIP: Koko Taylor
- I Got What It Takes Koko Taylor
What It Takes: The Chess Years , MCA - CLIP: Wanda Jackson
- Hard Headed Woman Wanda Jackson
Vintage Collection, Capitol - Everyday Is Not the Same Carol Fran
Live at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Concert , - Instrumental: The Prison Bars Beausoleil
Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011, - Chez Varise Connor Beausoleil
Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011, - Opihi Moe Moe Ledward Kaapana
Live at the 2011 National Heritage Fellowship Concert , - SEGMENT: Del McCoury
- I Feel Like the Blues Moving In Del McCoury Band
Live at the 2010 National Heritage Fellowship Concert, - Instrumental: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White with Jason Marsalis
Blue Crescent, Basin Street - Wayfaring Stranger David Ivey
Live at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Concert, - Shout When You're Feeling Blue The Paschall Brothers
Live at the 2012 National Heritage Fellowship Concert, - Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Staple Singers
Freedom Highway, Columbia/Legacy - Jump for Joy The Campbell Brothers
Pass Me Not, Arhoolie - End Bed: Like It Is Jerry Douglas
Restless on the Farm, Sugar Hill
HOUR two
- Open Bed: The Diamond Billy McComiskey with Mick Moloney and Liz Carroll
Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert, - SEGMENT: Leona Waddell
- El Pediero Artemio Posadas
Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert , - La Pentenera Artemio Posadas
Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert , - SEGMENT: Bounxeung Synanonh
- Instrumental: Blues for the Orient Yusef Lateef
Eastern Sounds, Prestige - SEGMENT: Bryan Akipa
- SEGMENT: Clarissa Rizal
- SEGMENT: Monk Boudreaux
- Instrumental: Thanksgiving Hawk Henries
Keeping the Fire: Eastern Woodlands Flute, self-released - SEGMENT: Theresa Secord
- SEGMENT: Michael Vlahovich
- SEGMENT: Billy McComiskey
- The Traveling Irishman Billy McComiskey
Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert , - End Bed: The Commodore Reel Bill McComiskey with Liz Carroll and Mick Moloney
Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
