Dom Flemons and special guest, Andy Hedges, pay tribute to the music, culture, and history of the Old West, including music from Flemons’ seminal Smithsonian Folkways release Black Cowboys, which follows the footsteps of the thousands of African American pioneers who helped build the United States of America. Flemons and Hedges will both play a set, followed by an illuminating conversation between the artists, and a short collaborative performance.
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GRAMMY Award Winner, Two-Time EMMY Nominee, and 2020 United States Artists Fellow Dom Flemons is known as “The American Songster” since his repertoire of music covers over 100 years of early American popular music. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor, music scholar, historian, and record collector, and one of the founding members of The Carolina Chocolate Drops. He is considered an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife and rhythm bones.
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Andy Hedges is a songster, reciter, storyteller, guitarist, and collector of cowboy songs and poems. The son of an Italian schoolteacher and a rodeo cowboy turned preacher, Andy grew up in the small community of Tokio, Texas, where his family paid rent on an old farmhouse by looking after a few head of cattle. It was there that Andy fell in love with traditional music, while listening to his father’s cassettes of cowboy songs. Andy’s vast and varied repertoire includes classic cowboy poetry recitations, obscure cowboy songs, dust bowl ballads, and blues. In addition to his live performances, he hosts a podcast called Cowboy Crossroads which features in-depth interviews with fellow musicians and poets. Andy lives in Lubbock, Texas with his wife and three children. More info at andyhedges.com
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