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MEMORIAL DAY WITH THE 2022 NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWS
For Memorial Day, we’re celebrating the 2022 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows. Great musicians, storytellers, artisans and advocates, who have received our nation’s highest honor in traditional arts with these new honorees: Richmond gospel family, The Legendary Ingramettes; Navajo Diné weaver and sheep rancher, TahNibaa Naataanii; Washington DC step choreographer, C. Brian Williams; Excelsior Brass Band of Mobile, Alabama; master Hawaiian Hale builder Francis “Palani” Sinenci; Tibetan Opera singer and dancer Tsering Wangmo Satho; Flamenco dancer Eva Encinias; Bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland; St. Croix Quelbe flute player and bandleader, Stanley Jacobs; and New Orleans Black-masking craftsman, stilt dancer and musician, Shaka Zulu. Plus music from former fellows Doc Watson, Cedric Burnside, Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jiménez, Andy Statman, Dr. Michael White and Wanda Jackson, among others.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: I Feel the Blues Moving In Del McCoury Band
High Lonesome and Blue, Rounder - Blues Never Die Koko Taylor
I Got What It Takes, Alligator - Please Tell Me Baby Cedric Burnside
Benton County Relic, Single Lock Records - SEGMENT: The Legendary Ingramettes
Listen - Instrumental: Gospel Groove Billy Preston
The Complete Vee-Jay Recordings, Concord - Eh, 'Tite Fille Clifton Chenier
Louisiana Blues & Zydeco, Arhoolie - Caroline Blinky & the Roadmasters
Crucian Scratch Band Music, Rounder - SEGMENT: Stanley Jacobs
Listen - SEGMENT: Francis P. Sinenci
Listen - Instrumental: I Feel Alright Barbara Lynn
- Nice and Easy Barbara Lynn
Movin’ on a Groove, Tribe - Any Other Way William Bell
The Very Best of William Bell, Concord - SEGMENT: C. Brian Williams
Listen - SEGMENT: Excelsior Band
Listen - End Bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White
Blue Crescent, Basin Street
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Bye Bye Blues Eddie Pennington
Eddie Pennington Walks the Strings and Even Sings, Smithsonian Folkways - I Gotta Know Wanda Jackson
The Capitol Singles: 1956-1958 , Capitol - Singing the Blues Doc Watson
Docabilly, Sugar Hill - Daisy Brownie McGhee
Classic Piedmont Blues, Smithsonian Folkways - SEGMENT: Michael Cleveland
Listen - Instrumental: Descarega Guajira Cachao
Canta Contrabajo–Cachao, Musica Tropical - Descarga Cubana Cachao y su Ritmo Caliente
Monte Adentro: Cachao y su Ritmo Caliente, Blue Moon - Ay Te Dejo in San Antonio Flaco Jimenez
Ay Te Dejo in San Antonio, Arhoolie - SEGMENT Eva Enciñias
- SEGMENT: TahNibaa Naataanii
Listen - Instrumental: Dialogue Rahim AlHaj Trio
One Sky, Smithsonian Folkways - Bashies Bounce Andy Statman and David Grisman
Songs of Our Fathers–Traditional Jewish Melodies, Acoustic Disc - Kaloaloa Hui Ohana: Ledward Ka’apana, Nedward Ka’apnna, Dennis Pavao
Young Hawaiians Play Old Hawaii, Lehua - SEGMENT: Tsering Wangmo Satho
Listen - Jambalaya Strut Dr. Michael White
Dancing in the Sky, Basin Street - SEGMENT: Shaka Zulu
Listen - End Bed: Spiritual Hank Jones and Charlie Haden
Steal Away, UMG
