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NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWS 2019
American Routes celebrates this 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 honor in Folk & Traditional Arts. This year’s fellows include Texas ranchera elders Las Tesoros de San Antonio, Basque accordionist Dan Ansotegui, Malian balafon player Balla Kouyate, African American storyteller Linda Goss, Wyoming leatherworker James F. Jackson, Spanish colcha embroiderer Josephine Lobato, decoy carver Rich Smoker, Crow storyteller Grant Bulltail and Tennessee folklorist and state parks manager Bob Fulcher. Plus fellows from years gone by: Mavis Staples, Doc Watson, Wanda Jackson and the Holmes Brothers.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Balla Kouyate Open Balla Kouyate
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Wang Dang Doodle Koko Taylor
Deluxe Edition, Alligator - Why I Sing the Blues B.B. King
Do the Boogie! B.B. King's Early Classics, Virgin - SEGMENT: Chuck Brown
Listen - Caso Perdido Beatriz Lamas of Las Tesoros de San Antonio
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Te Vas a Repentir Blanquita Rodriguez of Las Tesoros de San Antonio
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Instrumental: Getting Up the Stairs Joseph Decosimo
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Down in Virginia The Holmes Brothers
Soul Street , Rounder - SEGMENT: Wanda Jackson
Listen - All Night Long Blues Bob Fulcher & Clyde Davenport
At Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival 1993, Appalshop - SEGMENT: Bob Fulcher
Listen - Ol Bangum Dan Hicks
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - SEGMENT: Rich Smoker
Listen - Instrumental: Down by the Riverside George Lewis Band
Jazz at Preservation Hall”The George Lewis Band of New Orleans, Atlantic - London Canal Breakdown Dr. Michael White
Blue Crescent, Basin Street - Top Cat Mambo Ellie Mannette and His Invaders
The Champions of Steelband in Trinidad, Cook - Descarga Maso Edwin Colon Zayas
Homenaje a Los Maestros del Cuatro, vol, 1 , self-published - On-Stage Performance The Maryland and Delaware Singing and Praying Bands
American Routes recording from the 2014 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Calico Blues Linda Goss
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Closing bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Michael White
Blue Crescent , Basin Street
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Idumea David Ivey
American Routes recording from the 2013 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - I Wonder Where You are Tonight Mac Wiseman, Del McCoury & Doc Watson
Mac, Doc & Del , Sugar Hill - Better Days Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Sing, Folkways - People Get Ready Shirley Caesar
Vintage Gospel, Sonorous Gospel - SEGMENT: Mavis Staples
Listen - Long Walk to DC The Staples Singers
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles Vol. 2 '68-'71, Stax/Volt - SEGMENT: Grant Bulltail
Listen - Instrumental: Zortzikoa Dan Ansotegui
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Debukatuta Jota Dan Ansotegui
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Historia Dan Ansotegui
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Neue Sher Dave Tarras
Freilach in Hi-Fi: Jewish Wedding Dances Vol. 1 , Essential Media Group - Pretzels Polka Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones
Award Winning Polkas, Bel-Aire Records - La Porte Dans Arriere (The Back Door) Dewey Balfa, Marc Savoy & DL Menard
En Bas Du Chene Vert, Arhoolie - SEGMENT: Josephine Lobato
Listen - SEGMENT: James F. Jackson
Listen - Instrumental: Doudou Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate
Ali and Toumani , World Circuit - Opihi Moe Moe Ledward Kaapana
American Routes recording at the 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Kalama`ula Ledward Kaapana
American Routes recording at the 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Sundiata Balla Kouyate
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Kouyate Fasa Balla Kouyate
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert, - Closing Bed: Grand Finale Balla Kouyate
American Routes recording from the 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert,
