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NEA NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWS 2018

We celebrate America’s diverse heritage by spotlighting the 2018 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
    Steal 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
    Johnny Gimble, The Texas Fiddler Collection
  • 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 boir Balfa Brothers
    The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music, Swallow Records
  • SEGMENT: Doc Watson and Wayne Henderson
  • Instrumental: Shalom Aleichem Andy Statman and David Grisman
    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,

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