AMERICAN ROUTES
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté May 18th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté

It’s Blueswomen, Jazzmen, African roots and branches. Chicago blues singer Shemekia Copeland‘s father, the late blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, brought her into his music as a child. As an adult, she found new ways to use blues to express her perspective. We’ll hear from some of Shemekia’s heroes including Etta James, Ruth Brown, Alberta Hunter and Big Mama Thornton. Then a conversation and performance by Boston-based Mandinka balafon player Balla Kouyaté and music inspired by and from the continent of Africa from Randy Weston, Miriam Makeba and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Shemekia Copeland photo by Mike White

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NEA HERITAGE AWARDS

November 26th, 2014

It’s a tradition of it’s own by now! Each year, American Routes celebrates Thanksgiving weekend with words and music from the National Heritage Fellows Concert in Washington DC. Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has presented the fellowships. It’s America’s highest award in Folk & Traditional Arts. We’ll hear a mix of this year’s fellows live from the stage as well as great recordings of those from years gone by: The Holmes Brothers, Doc Watson, Treme Brass Band, Michael Doucet with Beausoleil, Boozoo Chavis, Flaco Jimenez, Mavis Staples, Del McCoury, John Cephas & Phil Wiggins, Andy Statman and many more. Blues and jazz, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and klezmer, bluegrass and gospel as well as Native American voices, make a cornucopia of sounds and stories for the holiday!

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • On-Stage Performance The Maryland and Delaware Singing and Praying Bands
    live recording at NEA Heritage Concert 2014,
  • Black Cat on the Line Cephas and Wiggins
    From Richmond to Atlanta, Bullseye Blues
  • Big Black Train The Earls of Leicester
    The Earls of Leicester, Rounder
  • House of the Rising Sun Doc and Richard Watson
    Third Generation Blues, Sugar Hill
  • Instrumental: Fiddler's Dream/ Whistling Rufus/ Ragtime Annie Doc Watson
    Foundation: The Doc Watson Guitar Instrumental Collection 1964-1998, Sugar Hill
  • On-Stage Interview Kevin Doyle
    live recording at the NEA Heritage Concert 2014,
  • Parlez-Nous A Boire (Speak to Us of Drinking) Beausoleil
    Parlez-Nous A Boire & More, Arhoolie
  • Dog Hill Boozoo Chavis
    Boozoo Chavis, Electra Nonesuch
  • Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio Flaco Jimenez
    Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, Arhoolie
  • Instrumental: Viva Seguin Flaco Jimenez
    Arriba El Norte, Rounder
  • Descarga Cachao Cachao
    Descarga Cachao, Epic
  • Live Performance and On-Stage Interview Cowboy Donley
    live recording at NEA Heritage Concert 2014,
  • Sing On The Treme Brass Band
    New Orleans Music!, Mardi Gras
  • End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Live Performance and On-Stage Interview Rufus White
    live recording at NEA Heritage Concert 2014,
  • On-Stage Interview Yvonne Walker Keshick
    live recording at NEA Heritage Concert 2014,
  • On the King's Highway Andy Statman
    Old Brooklyn, Shefa
  • On-Stage Interview Vera Nakonechny
    live recording at NEA Heritage Concert 2014,
  • Instrumental: One in Nine Andy Statman
    Old Brooklyn, Shefa
  • On-Stage Interview Henry Arquette
  • Loggin' Man The Del McCoury Band
    The Cold Hard Facts, Rounder
  • John Henry John Jackson
    Don't Let Your Deal Go Down, Arhoolie
  • On-Stage Interview Caroline Mazloomi
    live recording at NEA Heritage Concert 2014,
  • I'll Take You There The Staple Singers
    The Muscle Shoals Sound, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Opus de Soul Albert King, Steve Cropper, Pops Staples
    Jammed Together, Stax
  • Live Performance and On-Stage Interview The Holmes Brothers
    live recording at NEA Heritage Concert 2014,
  • End Bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken 2014 NEA Heritage Fellows
    live recording at NEA Heritage Concert 2014,

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