Every Month is Black History Month
Let’s retire Black History Month and incorporate Black history into every year-round history curriculum nationwide.
In the meantime, we’ll listen to some Black musicians who have participated in Centrum programs.
Including:
The Carolina Chocolate Drops, with Joe Thompson
Jerron Paxton and Phil Wiggins
Howard Armstrong
Boo Hanks and Dom Flemons
Lynn August
The Creole Cowboys
and a little bit of Etta Baker
Rhiannon Giddens has been loading one awesome post per day this month on her Facebook page, about Black history in general, highly recommended:
https://www.facebook.com/RhiannonGiddensMusic/
If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel:
https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/
Thanks for listening, have fun!
Peter
You’ll hear: Ross Brown with George Reynolds Mark Graham and Sandy Silva Marley’s Ghost Pete Sutherland The Neolithic Broadcasters Sheila Kay Adams Scott Nygaard, Jerry Gallaher, and Jack Link Lightnin Wells Ethel Caffie Austin And another episode of itmightabeen, featuring Abner Jay. Most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter ...
In honor of Voice Works, Peter cracks open the vault to play a collection of beautiful duets, and other vocal treasures. Enjoy the soothing harmonies. ...
Alas, John passed way too soon, on January 2. We'll take an (inadequate) listen to some of the music John loved, vintage jazz, choro, and Italian dance music. With: a few cuts of John on clarinet and bass clarinet; some of the source material for the Italian music that John played, including Tony Flores and his family and his connection to Port Townsend; Ricardo Tunzi; Paul Rangell and Emily Abbink; Irene Herrmann and Paul Hostetter If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter ...
