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Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand March 22nd, 2023 (Hour 1)
Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand

Country singer Kelsey Waldon grew up in the Ohio River bottoms of Ballard County Kentucky-a place called “Monkey’s Eyebrow” where her family has farmed for generations. She tells us about her journey as a songwriter, and her friendship with another hero of Kentucky, John Prine. Then a live set of New Orleans jazz and its Caribbean cousins with the widely acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, Aurora Nealand and her quartet at Artisound Studios in New Orleans 9th Ward.

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MEMORIAL DAY WITH THE NEA NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWS: MICHAEL WHITE, BEAUSOLEIL, MONK BOUDREAUX, DEL MCCOURY, KOKO TAYLOR AND MANY MORE...

May 24th, 2017

American Routes celebrates Memorial Day weekend with a sonic feast from National Endowment for the Arts’ Heritage Fellows—recipients of America’s most prestigious award in folk & traditional arts. We’ll hear music and conversation from past Fellows: bluegrass picker Del McCoury, rockabilly Wanda Jackson, sacred steel guitarists, the Campbell Brothers, and late blues singer Koko Taylor. The 2016 Fellows included: Mardi Gras Indian Chief Monk Boudreaux, Irish accordionist Billy McComiskey and Mexican-American singer Artemio Posadas. Other awardees range from basketmakers in Kentucky and the Penobscot tribe in Maine, to traditional wind instrumentalists from South Dakota and Laos.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Stealing Time Eddie Pennington
    Walks the Strings... And Even Sings, Folkways
  • John Henry John Jackson
    American Routes original studio recording,
  • Barack Obama Boogie Henry Gray & The Cats
    Times Are Getting Hard , Lucky Cat
  • CLIP: Koko Taylor
  • I Got What It Takes Koko Taylor
    What It Takes: The Chess Years , MCA
  • CLIP: Wanda Jackson
  • Hard Headed Woman Wanda Jackson
    Vintage Collection, Capitol
  • Everyday Is Not the Same Carol Fran
    Live at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Concert ,
  • Instrumental: The Prison Bars Beausoleil
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Chez Varise Connor Beausoleil
    Live Recording at Preservation Hall 2011,
  • Opihi Moe Moe Ledward Kaapana
    Live at the 2011 National Heritage Fellowship Concert ,
  • SEGMENT: Del McCoury
  • I Feel Like the Blues Moving In Del McCoury Band
    Live at the 2010 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
  • Instrumental: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White with Jason Marsalis
    Blue Crescent, Basin Street
  • Wayfaring Stranger David Ivey
    Live at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
  • Shout When You're Feeling Blue The Paschall Brothers
    Live at the 2012 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Staple Singers
    Freedom Highway, Columbia/Legacy
  • Jump for Joy The Campbell Brothers
    Pass Me Not, Arhoolie
  • End Bed: Like It Is Jerry Douglas
    Restless on the Farm, Sugar Hill

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: The Diamond Billy McComiskey with Mick Moloney and Liz Carroll
    Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,
  • SEGMENT: Leona Waddell
  • El Pediero Artemio Posadas
    Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert ,
  • La Pentenera Artemio Posadas
    Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert ,
  • SEGMENT: Bounxeung Synanonh
  • Instrumental: Blues for the Orient Yusef Lateef
    Eastern Sounds, Prestige
  • SEGMENT: Bryan Akipa
  • SEGMENT: Clarissa Rizal
  • SEGMENT: Monk Boudreaux
  • Instrumental: Thanksgiving Hawk Henries
    Keeping the Fire: Eastern Woodlands Flute, self-released
  • SEGMENT: Theresa Secord
  • SEGMENT: Michael Vlahovich
  • SEGMENT: Billy McComiskey
  • The Traveling Irishman Billy McComiskey
    Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert ,
  • End Bed: The Commodore Reel Bill McComiskey with Liz Carroll and Mick Moloney
    Live at the 2016 National Heritage Fellowship Concert,

THE LATEST STREAMS

  • March 22nd, 2023

    REIMAGINING KENTUCKY COUNTRY MUSIC & NEW ORLEANS JAZZ WITH KELSEY WALDON AND AURORA NEALAND

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  • March 15th, 2023

    ST. PATRICK'S SINGERS, FIDDLERS AND PICKERS FROM IRELAND TO AMERICA

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  • March 8th, 2023

    TRUE BELIEVERS AND HARDWORKING TROUBADOURS: POST-PUNK FOLKSINGER, LEE BAINS, & SWAMP POP HERO, TOMMY MCLAIN

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