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Celebrating the National Heritage Fellows Celebrating the National Heritage Fellows May 25th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Celebrating the National Heritage Fellows

Join us this Memorial Day weekend to celebrate the National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellows. Each year, the NEA recognizes traditional artists for their excellence and contributions to our nation’s heritage. It’s the highest award in the traditional arts. This year’s honorees include: Filipino rondalla musician Tagumpay Mendoza De Leon; Osage ribbon worker and ceramicist Anita Fields; documentary filmmaker and preservationist Tom Davenport; Louisiana’s Winnsboro Easter Rock gospel ensemble; Hill Country blues drummer and guitarist Cedric Burnside; Puerto Rican mundillo lace weaver Nellie Vera; Irish flute and whistle maven Joanie Madden; Chicago tap dancer Reginald “Reggio the Hoofer” McLaughlin; and the Mexican American band from East Los Angeles, Los Lobos. Plus music from prior awardees including Del McCoury, Mavis Staples, Dr. Michael White and John Lee Hooker.

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FAMILY GROOVE: REMEMBERING CHARLES NEVILLE... AND HIS BROTHERS FROM NEW ORLEANS

May 9th, 2018

New Orleans’ Neville Brothers—Art, Aaron, Charles and Cyril—are famed for their fiery soul and funk, blues and ballads, Caribbean and Crescent City rhythms. Saxophonist Charles Neville recently passed away. He first learned to play music in the family’s uptown Valence Street neighborhood, and quickly took to the stage. By 15 Charles was with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and later Bobby Blue Bland, B.B. King and Big Maybelle, among others, touring the Jim Crow South. A drug habit landed the sax player in Louisiana’s infamous Angola Penitentiary from 1963 to 1966. It was a reforming and learning experience for him, playing bebop jazz with other inmates and integrating prison bands. In the seventies, Charles and his siblings formed the Wild Tchoupitoulas and then the Neville Brothers, bands that blended the homegrown sounds of New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians and street life with modern soul, funk and jazz. We pay tribute to Charles by revisiting our interviews with him and his brothers over the years, as the Nevilles tell stories of family life and their adventures in and beyond the city where they learned their craft.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Fire on the Bayou The Neville Brothers
    Fiyo on the Bayou, A&M
  • Hey Pocky Way The Neville Brothers
    Fiyo on the Bayou, A&M
  • Cow Cow Blues Paul Gayten
    The OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957, Sony
  • Cha-Doo-Doo The Hawkettes
    New Orleans Party Classics, Rhino
  • Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville
    The Very Best of Aaron Neville, A&M
  • Instrumental: Drums On Fire Donald Harrison, Jr.
    Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. presents the New Sounds of Mardi Gras, FOMP
  • Meet De Boys on the Battlefront Wild Tchoupitoulas
    Wild Tchoupitoulas, Mango
  • Brother John Wild Tchoupitoulas
    Wild Tchoupitoulas , Mango
  • Fiyo on the Bayou The Neville Brothers
    Fiyo on the Bayou, A&M
  • Instrumental: Healing Chant The Neville Brothers
    Yellow Moon, A&M
  • Voodoo The Neville Brothers
    Yellow Moon , A&M
  • My Blood The Neville Brothers
    Yellow Moon, A&M
  • Big Chief Cyril and Charles Neville, Allen Toussaint, with Paul Schaefer Orchestra
    From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans DVD, Rhino
  • Amazing Grace The Neville Brothers
    From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans DVD, Rhino
  • Closing Bed: Saxafunk The Neville Brothers
    Family Groove , A&M

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Valence Street The Neville Brothers
    Valence Street, Columbia
  • Family Groove The Neville Brothers
    Family Groove, A&M
  • Little Piece of Heaven The Neville Brothers
    Valence Street, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Charles Neville

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  • Run Joe The Neville Brothers
    Fiyo on the Bayou, A&M
  • Steer Me Right The Neville Brothers
    Brother's Keeper, A&M
  • Instrumental: Pop Top Dan Kennedy feat. Charles Neville and Greg Loughman
    Bloom Road, Mt. Pollux Music
  • SEGMENT: Charles Neville Part 2

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  • SEGMENT: Charles Neville Part 3

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  • Instrumental: Progressize The Nic Nacs
    Unreleased recording,
  • SEGMENT: Charles Neville Part 4

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  • Hey Pocky Way (Live at Angola) The Jazzmen
    American Routes Recording at Angola Prison 2016,
  • A Change is Gonna Come Aaron Neville
    The Very Best of Aaron Neville, A&M
  • I Bid You Good Night Aaron Neville
    Warm Your Heart, A&M
  • Closing Bed: Ol' Man River Charles Neville
    Safe in Buddha's Palm, CD Baby

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    BREAKING OUT: BRITISH BLUES TO NEW ORLEANS BOUNCE

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