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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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BLUES JUKES & JAZZ STREETS WITH BILL FERRIS AND DOREEN KETCHENS

March 23rd, 2022

We travel from Mississippi juke joints to the streets of the French Quarter to hear from those who record and perform music. Folklorist Bill Ferris recounts his experience documenting blues, gospel, fife & drum music and folk arts in the Mississippi delta and hill country. Ferris recently compiled his recordings in the Voices of Mississippi boxed set. Then, New Orleans’ queen of the clarinet Doreen Ketchens serenades us from her post at Royal and St. Peters Street. Doreen tells how the clarinet brought her from the family’s sweet shop in Treme to a global stage. Plus, hot takes from Hot Tuna, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Lavern Baker and Marvin Gaye.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Memphis Mail Scott Dunbar
    Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital
  • Railroadin' Some Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas
    Ragtime Texas, Herwin
  • Freight Train Boogie Ira and Charlie Louvin
    A Tribute to the Delmore Brothers, Capital
  • Lil' Liza Jane Scott Dunbar
    Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital
  • Liza Jane Dale Hawkins
    Oh! Susie Q: The Best of Dale Hawkins, Chess/MCA
  • Li'l Liza Jane Kermit Ruffins
    The Big Butter and Egg Man, Justice
  • Instrumental: Nothing Wash Heron and Big Jack Johnson
    Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital
  • I Got a Letter from Hot Springs Mississippi Fred McDowell
    Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital
  • You Gotta Move Rolling Stones
    Sticky Fingers, Virgin
  • Baby Please Don't Go Lawtell Playboys
    La-La: Louisiana Black French Music, Maison de Soul
  • Instrumental: Bounceball Othar Turner & Rising Star Fife and Drum Band
    Everybody Hollerin' Goat, Birdman
  • Eyesight to the Blind Sam Myers
    Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital
  • You Don't Know Like I Know Southland Singers
    Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust to Digital
  • Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Hot Tuna
    First Pull Up and Then Pull Down, RCA Victor
  • SEGMENT: Bill Ferris

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  • End Bed: Outlaws Bill Frisell
    Blues Dream, Elektra Nonesuch

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: This Train and When the Saints Go Marching In Doreen Ketchens
    American Routes recording in French Quarter,
  • The Music Goes Round and Round Louis Prima
    Louis Prima - Capitol Collector's Series, Capitol
  • (Every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone Roy Montrell
    Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty
  • Les Oignons Danny Barker, Albert Nicholas, James P. Johnson, Pops Foster
    Jazz a la Creole, GHB Records
  • Froglegs Lloyd Price
    Lawdy!, Specialty
  • Instrumental: Lord, Lord, Lord Doreen Ketchens
    Doreen's Jazz New Orleans (Volume XIX), DJNO Records
  • SEGMENT: Doreen Ketchens

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  • Lady Be Good Martin, Bogan and Armstrong
    Barnyard Dance, Rounder
  • Jim Dandy Lavern Baker
    Soul on Fire, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Pretty Stars Were Made to Shine Bill Frisell
    Blues Dream, Elektra Nonesuch
  • He'll Have to Go David Hidalgo with Los Cenzontles
    Los Cenzontles: Covers 2, Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
  • Reconsider Me Margaret Lewis
    Reconsider Me, Ram Records
  • Long Telephone Port Arthur Cleveland Crochet and the Sugar Bees
    Cleveland Crochet and All the Sugar Bees, Goldband
  • One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer John Lee Hooker
    The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues, MCA
  • One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) Marvin Gaye
    Motown Celebrates Sinatra, Motown
  • End Bed: Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet
    Blue Horizon: The Sidney Bechet Story, Proper Records

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