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Memorial Day with the 2022 National Heritage Fellows

For Memorial Day, we’re celebrating the 2022 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows. Great musicians, storytellers, artisans and advocates, who have received our nation’s highest honor in traditional arts with these new honorees: Richmond gospel family, The Legendary Ingramettes; Navajo Diné weaver and sheep rancher, TahNibaa Naataanii; Washington DC step choreographer, C. Brian Williams; Excelsior Brass Band of Mobile, Alabama; master Hawaiian Hale builder Francis “Palani” Sinenci; Tibetan Opera singer and dancer Tsering Wangmo Satho; Flamenco dancer Eva Encinias; Bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland; St. Croix Quelbe flute player and bandleader, Stanley Jacobs; and New Orleans Black-masking craftsman, stilt dancer and musician, Shaka Zulu. Plus music from former fellows Doc Watson, Cedric Burnside, Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jiménez, Andy Statman, Dr. Michael White and Wanda Jackson, among others.

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SUMMER SURF

June 19th, 2002

Back to the beach with “beach music” from both coasts. We’ll talk with California surf guitarist Dick Dale, go lobstering in Maine, and visit Sea Breeze, a historically African-American beach in North Carolina. With music by Charles Mingus, James Brown and Astrud Gilberto.

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HOUR ONE

  • Summertime James Brown & Martha High
    Duets, Polydor
  • Too Hot The Specials
    The Specials, Chsalis
  • Beach Boy Blues Elvis Presley
    Blue Hawaii, RCA
  • Coconut Island Junior Brown
    12 Shades of Brown, Curb
  • King of the Surf Guitar Dick Dale
    Cowabunga!, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Bustin' Thru Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant
    Stratosphere Boogie, Razor & Tie
  • INTERVIEW: Dick Dale

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  • Miserlou Dick Dale
    Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology, Rhino
  • The Wedge Dick Dale
    Better Shred Than Dead: The Dick Dale Anthology, Rhino
  • Like Swimming Morphine
    Like Swimming, Dreamworks
  • Fisherman's Wharf Peggy Lee
    Blues Cross Country, Capitol Jazz
  • INTERVIEW: Carl Schwab & Bruce McVane on Lobstering in Maine
  • Instrumental: The Fish Vender Tom McDermott
    Louisianthology, STR
  • Love Letters in the Sand Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic, Bear Family
  • Pouring Water on a Drowning Man James Carr
    The Essential, Razor & Tie
  • I'm Gonna Sail Like a Ship on the Ocean Henry Morrison
    Sound of the South: Negro Church Music, Atlantic
  • Jonah & the Whale Louis Armstrong
    Louis & the Good Book, MCA
  • Blue Tide Charles Mingus
    Complete Debut Recordings,
  • Shadows on the Sand Frank Sinatra
    The Popular Sinatra Vol.3, BMG

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Over the Waves George Lewis
    Hot Jazz on Blue Note, Blue Note
  • Smooth Sailing Ella Fitzgerald
    The Very Best of Ella, Decca
  • Barnacle Bill the Sailor Louis Jordan
    The Anthology 1938-1953, MCA/Decca
  • Les Bons Temps Rouler David Doucet
    Quand J'ai Parti, Rounder
  • Red Sails In the Sunset Bobby Jay
    The Best of Excello Vol.1, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Hand Clappin Red Prysock
    Blues Masters Vol.5: Jump Blues Classics, Rhino
  • INTERVIEW: Brenda Freeman, Alfred Mitchell, Chicken Hicks on Sea Breeze

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  • Everybody Needs Somebody to Love Solomon Burke
    The Best Of Solomon Burke, Rhino/Atlantic
  • Better Luck in the Summertime Robert Parker
    Golden Classics,
  • Don't Rock My Boat Bob Marley & The Wailers
    Selassie Is The Chapel, JAD
  • Wave Antonio Carlos Jobim
    The Man From Ipanema, Polygram
  • Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) Getz/Gilberto
    Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto,
  • La Playa Los Lobos
    This Time, Hollywood
  • Moon, Turn The Tides... gently gently away Jimi Hendrix
    Electric Ladyland, MCA
  • The Dolphins Fred Neil
    Everybody's Talkin': Theme From ‘Midnight Cowboy', Rev-Ola

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