NEA Heritage Fellowship Concert 2015
Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has presented the fellowships – America’s most prestigious award for folk & traditional arts. We’ll hear music and conversation from Fellows in years gone by, like Doc Watson, Staple Singers, Clifton Chenier, Ralph Stanley, B.B. King, Flaco Jimenez and New Orleans’ own Treme Brass Band. Then we present the 2015 Fellows, many performing live from the stage at George Washington University, including the Gee’s Bend quilters, a circus aerialist, Piedmont bluesman, klezmer musicians, mariachis and more.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White
Blue Crescent, Basin Street Records
Christian's Automobile The Dixie Hummingbirds
Thank You For One More Day, Peacock
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Doc Watson
Elementary Dr. Watson, Vanguard
CLIP: Ralph Stanley
Rank Stranger Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Classic Bluegrass, Rebel Records
I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water Brownie Ford
Stories from Mountains, Swamps & Honky-Tonks, Flying Fish
(Going to) Kansas City Claude Williams
Claude Williams Live at j's Volume I, Arhoolie
Instrumental: Viva Seguin Santiago Jimenez
Tex Mex Fiesta, Arhoolie
La Porte Dans Arriere (The Back Door) Dewey Balfa, Marc Savoy & DL Menard
En Bas Du Chene Vert, Arhoolie
Eh, 'Tite Fille Clifton Chenier
Louisiana Blues & Zydeco, Arhoolie
Ay Te Dejo in San Antonio Flaco Jimenez
Ay Te Dejo in San Antonio, Arhoolie
Descarga Cachao Israel "Cachao" Lopez
Cachao, Epic
Silkene Pajamas Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers
Tanz!, Epic
Instrumental: Slidin' and Glidin' B.B. King
Spotlight on Lucille, Virgin
CLIP: B.B. King
Why I Sing the Blues B.B. King
Do the Boogie! B.B. King's Early 50s Classics, Flair
Jump for Joy The Campbell Brothers
Pass Me Not, Arhoolie
Sing On Treme Brass Band
New Orleans Music!, Mardi Gras
Will the Circle Be Unbroken Staples Singers
Freedom Highway, Columbia/Legacy
Closing Bed: Spiritual Charlie Haden and Hank Jones
Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs, Verve
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Instrumental Rahim AlHaj
recorded live from the 2015 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
SEGMENT: Dan Sheehy
SEGMENT: Drink Small
SEGMENT: Gee's Ben Quilters
Instrumental: Swing Low Sweet Chariot Charlie Haden and Hank Jones
Steal Away: Spiritual, Hyms and Folk Songs, Verve
SEGMENT: Yari Livan
SEGMENT: Gertrude "Yuki" Tsutsumi
SEGMENT: Dolly Jacobs, circus aerialist
Instrumental Rahim AlHaj
recorded live from the 2015 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
SEGMENT: Sidonka Wadina
Klezmer Tune Michael Alpert and Brave Old World
recorded live from the 2015 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
End Bed: Musical Finale 2015 National Heritage Fellows jam, featuring Mariachi Los Amigos, Brave New
World, Rahim AlHaj, and Drink Small
recorded live from the 2015 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,