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

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