AMERICAN ROUTES AT MONTANA FOLK FESTIVAL
It’s a time of year when music festivals have returned. The Montana Folk Festival in Butte was hotly anticipated after two years of Covid cancellation.…
American Routes is blues and jazz, gospel and soul, rockabilly and country, Cajun and swamp pop, Tejano, Latin… and beyond. Songs and stories from musicians describe a deep and diverse nation with sounds and styles shared by all Americans. From the bayous to the beltways, from crossroads to crosstown, on interstates and city streets, turn up your radio for the sonic journey!
American Routes—produced in New Orleans since 1998
Songs as Poems; Poems as Songs
We listen for poetry in music and music in poetry, songs as poems and poems as songs with Langston Hughes, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Ken Nordine. Plus, a visit to New York's City Lore with poet-folklorist Steve Zeitlin, who rides the POEMobile to the People's Poetry Gathering and then back to New Orleans to… read more
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NEA WORK SAMPLES
Leyla McCalla: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lhMPbmOqVfij1b2DmoFywNQQNUF7yo3u/view?usp=sharing
Santana: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MhEZfQkVxeAfs4_Is6aJqSg8wR12Gabv/view?usp=sharing
REMEMBERING RONNIE HAWKINS
Ronnie Hawkins, rockabilly performer and mentor to the Band, passed away on May 29. He was 87.
You can read more about his life here.
