Thanksgiving with the 2024 National Heritage Fellows
This Thanksgiving, we celebrate the 2024 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows. Each year since 1982, the program has recognized artistic excellence, lifetime achievement, and contributions to the nation's traditional arts heritage. This year’s fellows include rockabilly country musician, Rosie Flores; carousel restorationist, Todd Goings; Cambodian dancer and costume maker, Sochietah Ung; Chicago tap dancer, Bril Barrett; Arkansas community activist, Pat Johnson; Navajo/Diné quilter, Susan Hudson; Gwich’in fiddler, Trimble Gilbert; Zuni dancers and singers, the Zuni Olla Maidens; Chicano muralist from Los Angeles, Fabian Debora; and koto player, June Kuramoto. Plus, music from past fellows, including live sets from New Orleans’ clarinetist, Dr. Michael White, Cajun fiddler Michael Doucet and his band, BeauSoleil, and sacred steel masters, the Campbell Brothers.
You can read more about the 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellows here.
Find the 2024 Fellows films here.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: A Mi San Antonio Eva Ybarra Y Su Conjunto
A Mi San Antonio, Rounder
SEGMENT: Rosie Flores
Hard Headed Woman Wanda Jackson
There’s a Party Goin’ On, Capitol
Wang Dang Doodle Koko Taylor
Koko Taylor, UMG
SEGMENT: Todd Goings
Instrumental: Buffalo Nation Bryan Akipa
Songs from the Black Hills, Tom Bee/Soar
SEGMENT: Sochietah Ung
Give It Up Dr. Michael White and the Original Liberty Jazz Band
American Routes Live at Artisound Studios
Sunday Morning Dr. Michael White and the Original Liberty Jazz Band
American Routes Live at Artisound Studios
Instrumental: Sing On Treme Brass Band
The Treme Brass Band, Mardi Gras Records
SEGMENT: Bril Barrett
Freight Train Elizabeth Cotten
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Smithsonian Folkways
Freight Train Boogie Doc & Merle Watson
Elementary Doctor Watson, United Artists Records
SEGMENT: Pat Johnson
I'll Take You There Staples Singers
The Muscle Shoals Sound, Rhino
End Bed: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Etta Baker
Railroad Bill, Pinnacle Productions LLC
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Wabash Cannonball Eddie Pennington
Eddie Pennington Walks the Strings and Even Sings, Smithsonian Folkways
SEGMENT: June Kuramoto
SEGMENT: Susan Hudson
O Day Bessie Jones
Southern Journey Volume 1: Voices From The American South - Blues, Ballads, Hymns, Reels, Shouts, Chanteys And Work Songs, Rounder
Lay Down My Old Guitar John Jackson
Country Blues & Ditties, Smithsonian Folkways
Instrumental: La Valse Á Pop Dewey Balfa, Marc Savoy, D.L. Menard
Under a Green Oak Tree, Smithsonian Folkways
SEGMENT: Trimble Gilbert
Acadian Two-Step BeauSoleil
American Routes original recording
Zydeco Gris-gris BeauSoleil
American Routes original recording
Courtableau BeauSoleil
American Routes original recording
Jimmie’s Favorite Jig Simon St. Pierre
The Woods of Maine, Revonah Records
Lafayette Waltz Clifton Chenier
Louisiana Blues & Zydeco, Arhoolie
Instrumental: Pu’u Anahulu Cyril Pahinui
Night Moon (Po Mahina), Dancing Cat Records
SEGMENT: Zuni Olla Maidens
SEGMENT: Fabian Debora
A Change is Gonna Come The Campbell Brothers
American Routes Live at the 2023 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
When the Saints Go Marching In/I’ll Fly Away The Campbell Brothers
American Routes Live at the 2023 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
Closing Bed: Radio Hula Ledward Kaapana
Waltz of the Wind, Dancing Cat Records