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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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CARNIVAL KNOWLEDGE: NEW ORLEANS, SOUTH OF FRANCE AND CONEY ISLAND

February 11th, 2015

For our annual pre-Lenten bacchanal, we bring you classic Mardi Gras songs from the Crescent City and beyond. We begin by revisiting our classic interview with Bo Dollis, the recently passed Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias. Then we travel to Nice, France – grand city on the Cote d’Azure – for a float parade that parodies American fast food assembly lines and French political scandals as stinky as local cheese; From there, on to the vintners village of Limoux, where free glasses of blanchette are never empty. We end our journey in Coney Island NY, where we hear of carnivalesque revelry at America’s great amusement park by the sea and walk with the fishes in the Mermaid Parade.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Seven-Ay Pocky Way Jason Marsalis
    Music in Motion, Basin Street
  • Go to the Mardi Gras Professor Longhair
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras
  • Goin' Back to New Orleans Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers
    Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty
  • Carnival Time Al Johnson
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras
  • Meet de Boys on de Battle Front The Wild Tchoupitoulas
    Wild Tchoupitoulas, Mango
  • New Suit The Wild Magnolias
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras
  • Instrumental: (Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul The Wild Magnolias
    The Wild Magnolias, Polydor
  • SEGMENT: Bo Dollis and Quint Davis

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  • Hiko Hiko Donald Harrison
    Indian Blues, Candid
  • Quadrille Figure Six Blinky and the Road Masters
    Crucian Scratch Band Music, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Masquerade George Michael, Fred William, Gustin Louis, Wilkinson Girard
    Musical Traditions of St. Lucia, West Indies, Folkways
  • Mardi Gras Coteau
    Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
  • SEGMENT: Carnival in Nice and Limoux France

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  • End Bed: Walking Home Donald Harrison and Dr. John
    Indian Blues, Candid

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Cyclone Johnny and the Hurricanes
    The Best of Johnny and the Hurricanes Vol. 2, Drew's Entertainment
  • Opening Bed: Love Roller Coaster Ohio Players
    Honey, Mercury
  • Life is a Carnival The Band
    The Last Waltz, Rhino
  • Coney Island (Live) Al Jolson
    Live in '35!, Mastercorp Pty Ltd
  • Coney Island Washboard Swift Jewel Cowboys
    Western Swing and Country Jazz, JSP
  • SEGMENT: Philomena Marano
  • Love Roller Coaster Big Joe Turner
    The Definitive Blues Collection, Atlantic
  • CLIP: Nick on Wonderwheel
  • Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! The Beatles
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, EMI
  • Instrumental: Twelth Street Rag Verne Langdon
    Circus Clown Calliope! Vols. 1-2, Electric Lemon
  • SEGMENT: Philomena Marano
  • Coney Island Steeplechase The Velvet Underground
    Another View, Verve
  • My Flying Saucer Billy Bragg and Wilco
    Mermaid Ave. Vol II, Nonesuch
  • SEGMENT: Stan Fox
  • Carnival Natalie Merchant
    Tigerlily, Elektra
  • Instrumental: Baker's Dozen Mickey Baker
    The Wildest Guitar, Sepia Tone
  • SEGMENT: Ray Valens the barker
  • Coney Island Baby The Excellents
    Forever Doo Wop, Vol. 2, Essential Media
  • Freak House Blues Carol Lipnik
    Cloud Girl, Mermaid Alley
  • SEGMENT: Little Miss Firefly
  • SEGMENT: Mermaid Parade, Stanley Fox
  • Coney Island Barry Sisters
    Hebrew National Kosher Classics, RCA
  • Under the Boardwalk The Drifters
    Under the Boardwalk, KRB
  • End Bed: Coney Island Rag Robert Bruce

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