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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.

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JOURNEYS IN LIFE AND MUSIC WITH RHONDA VINCENT & ALLISON RUSSELL

September 15th, 2021

It’s songs of solace and shelter, hope and joy as we visit with mandolin virtuoso Rhonda Vincent, from Greentop, Missouri, who grew up playing the bluegrass and country music circuit in her family’s bluegrass band and now plays the Grand Ole Opry with her own band, the Rage. Then, Montreal-born, Nashville-based singer, clarinetist and banjo player Allison Russell, on her journey to healing from childhood trauma through travels, words and music. Plus songs for weathering Hurricane Ida’s destructive route from the Gulf South to New York City by Allen Toussaint, Randy Newman and Fats Domino.

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HOUR ONE

  • Watson's Blues Doc Watson and Bill Monroe
    Live Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2 , Smithsonian Folkways
  • Key to the Highway Brownie McGhee
    Blues is Truth , Labor Records
  • That Lonesome Road Rhiannon Giddens
    Factory Girl, Nonesuch
  • I'm A Ramblin' Man Waylon Jennings
    The Essential Waylon , Sony
  • Rambling Boy Charlie Haden with Vince Gill
    Rambling Boy, Decca
  • Ramblin' Charles Lloyd and the Marvels
    Tone Poem , Blue Note
  • Instrumental: Farewell Blues Jim and Jesse
    Hats Off! The Bluegrass Tribute To Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs , CMH Records
  • Mama's Opry Iris Dement
    Infamous Angel , Yep Roc
  • Just Rehearsing Louvin Brothers
    The Family Who Prays , Capitol
  • This Train Sister Rosetta Tharp
    Sister Rosetta Tharp--The Decca Singles , Decca
  • I'm a Honky Tonk Girl Loretta Lynn
    Still Woman Enough , Loretta Lynn Enterprises
  • Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Lucinda Williams
    Car Wheels on a Gravel Road , Mercury
  • Instrumental: Help Me Rhonda Pickin' on the Beach Boys
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  • Salty Dog Blues The Bluegrass Champs
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  • Kentucky Borderline Rhonda Vincent
    Rhonda Vincent--One Step Ahead , Rounder
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  • Closing Bed: Tickled Pink Brandee Younger
    Somewhere Different , Verve
  • Instrumental: Gospel Trane Brandee Younger, Dezron Douglas
    Force Majeure , International Anthem

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Femme L'a Dit Feufollet
    Cow Island Hop , Valcour
  • Blues for Mama Nina Simone
    Nina Simone Sings the Blues , RCA Victor
  • Bye Bye Blackbird Rickie Lee Jones
    Pop Pop , Geffen
  • You're Not Alone Our Native Daughters
    Our Native Daughters , Smithsonian Folkways
  • Segment: Allison Russell

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  • Fixin' It Up Kelsey Waldon
    The Goldmine Archives , Oh Boy Records
  • Magnolia Blues Adia Victoria
    A Southern Gothic, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Fortune Teller Jon Cleary
    Occapella , FHQ Records
  • Southern Nights Allen Toussaint
    Songbook , Rounder
  • Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
    Songbook, Vol. 1 , Nonesuch
  • Walkin' to New Orleans Fats Domino
    Fats Domino--Greatest Hits--Walking to New Orleans , Capitol
  • Closing Bed: Wade in the Water Dr. John
    Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack, The Legendary Sessions, Vol. 1 , Clean Cuts

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