Thanksgiving: NEA National Heritage Fellows 2018
As part of our annual Thanksgiving tradition, we celebrate America’s diverse heritage by spotlighting this year’s National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellows—recognized for their excellence in folk and traditional arts. Live in concert, Texas guitar maven and singer Barbara Lynn commands the stage with her brand of Gulf Coast rhythm & blues; old-time fiddler Eddie Bond shreds Appalachian style; Don & Cindy Roy from Gorham, Maine, punch out French reels; and New York City cultural documentarian Ethel Raim sings a Yiddish song of her own. We talk tradition and technique with Native American basket weaver Kelly Church; Palestinian embroiderer Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim; rodeo tailor Manuel Cuevas; Chicana altarista Ofelia Esparza and African American quilter Marion Coleman. And we revisit performances and conversations with past NEA fellows like Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Ledward Ka’apana, circus aerialist Dolly Jacobs, soul singer Mavis Staples, and the late guitar virtuoso Doc Watson, among others.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Gray Eagle Eddie Bond and the Bogtrotters
American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert
Big-Eyed Rabbit Eddie Bond and the Bogtrotters
American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
Breaking Up Christmas Eddie Bond and the Bogtrotters
American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
SEGMENT: John Jackson
Instrumental: Wade in the Water Hank Jones and Charlie Haden
Steak Away, Verve
It's Gonna Rain The Birmingham Sunlights
Folk Masters: Great Performances Live from the Barns of Wolf Trap, Smithsonian Folkways
A Change is Gonna Come The Campbell Brothers
The Campbell Brothers: Can You Feel It, Ropeadope
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
SEGMENT: Kelly Church
SEGMENT: Ofelia Esparza
Un Mojado Sin Licencia Flaco Jimenez
Un Mojado Sin Licencia, Arhoolie
Instrumental: Curtain Call Tom Morrell and the Timewarp Top Hands
Wolf Tracks, Shanachie
SEGMENT: Manuel Cuevas
Fat Boy Rag Johnny Gimble
The Texas Fiddler Collection, CMH Records
SEGMENT: Dolly Jacobs
End Bed: Down Yonder Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: 4 Reels Don and Cindy Roy
American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
Parlez-nous a boire Balfa Brothers
The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music, Swallow Records
SEGMENT: Doc Watson and Wayne Henderson
Instrumental: Shalom Aleichem Andy Statman
Songs of Our Father, Acoustic Disc
SEGMENT: Ethel Raim
Shtey ikh mir bay mayn tatn oif der tir Ethel Raim
American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert ,
SEGMENT: Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim
SEGMENT: Marion Coleman
Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Staple Singers
Freedom Highway, Legacy
Instrumental: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Michael White
Blue Crescent , Basin Street
SEGMENT: Barbara Lynn
Oh! Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin') Barbara Lynn
American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert
It's Gonna Be a Wild Night Tonight Barbara Lynn
American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert
Closing Bed: Vamp Barbara Lynn and band
American Routes recording at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert