Check out this great piece by Siddhartha Mitter on the Mississippi Delta and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes that aired on Saturday on WNYC. You can catch Jimmy “Duck” live, on a double-bill with gospel great, Marie Knight, this Thursday, June 5 at the Kumble Theater at LIU. Click here to listen!
Add comment June 1st, 2008
Mississippi’s Rising Star Fife and Drum Band, founded by the late great Otha Turner, is undeniably the most famous fife and drum group in the world.
On Sunday, June 1, New York’s Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely are performing on a double-bill with blues great Otha Turner’s granddaughter - Sharde Thomas and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band at Brooklyn’s Masonic Temple in Ft. Greene. 14 year-old Sharde took over leadership of the band when Otha died in 2003. She’s now 18 and traveling all over the world playing this amazing music—and making it her own.
Check out this video (Sharde was about 5 years old here) to get a small taste of what we’re talking about!
Add comment May 19th, 2008
651 Production Manager, Robert Henderson, and Managing Director, Anna Glass, went down to Mississippi last week to meet with some of the musicians who will be participating in 651’s Mississippi Delta Heritage Project. They were primarily in Clarksdale, Cleveland, Greenville. Here are some classic images from the trip….
Add comment March 18th, 2008
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