Event Program
DOM FLEMONS in Residence
DOM FLEMONS, THE AMERICAN SONGSTER: BLUEGRASS NIGHT WITH SPECIAL GUEST, TONY TRISCHKA
SAT, APRIL 30
DOM FLEMONS
with
TONY TRISCHKA
Tonight’s program will run approximately 75 minutes with no intermission.
The Artists
DOM FLEMONS
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. He is considered an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife and rhythm bones. In 2005, Flemons co-founded the Carolina Chocolate Drops who won a GRAMMY for “Best Traditional Folk Album” in 2010, and were nominated for “Best Folk Album” in 2012. He left the group to pursue his solo career in 2014, and since then, he has released three acclaimed solo albums: American Songster, Black Cowboys, and Prospect Hill. He is originally from Phoenix, Arizona and currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife Vania Kinard, and their daughter Cheyanne Love.
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. He is considered an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife and rhythm bones. In 2005, Flemons co-founded the Carolina Chocolate Drops who won a GRAMMY for “Best Traditional Folk Album” in 2010, and were nominated for “Best Folk Album” in 2012. He left the group to pursue his solo career in 2014, and since then, he has released three acclaimed solo albums: American Songster, Black Cowboys, and Prospect Hill. He is originally from Phoenix, Arizona and currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife Vania Kinard, and their daughter Cheyanne Love.
TONY TRISCHKA
GRAMMY-nominated Tony Trischka has, over the past half-century, garnered a reputation as one of the most influential figures in roots music. As a banjoist he set new standards for genre-bending virtuosity, inspiring legions of younger players, among them Béla Fleck. Through his tireless efforts as an educator and such divergent projects as his collaborations with his friend and fellow banjoist Steve Martin, he’s helped to elevate and transform his chosen instrument’s profile within American culture. In addition to his Grammy nominations, he’s earned a number of honors over the years, including the International Bluegrass Music Award for Banjo Player of the Year, and being named a United States Artists Friends Fellow. In addition to performing, Tony is one of its most respected and sought-after instructors creating fifteen instructional books, as well as a series of DVDs. In 2009, he launched the groundbreaking Tony Trischka School of Banjo with ArtistWorks, an advanced, interactive, online instructional site that is the banjo home for students from around the world.
GRAMMY-nominated Tony Trischka has, over the past half-century, garnered a reputation as one of the most influential figures in roots music. As a banjoist he set new standards for genre-bending virtuosity, inspiring legions of younger players, among them Béla Fleck. Through his tireless efforts as an educator and such divergent projects as his collaborations with his friend and fellow banjoist Steve Martin, he’s helped to elevate and transform his chosen instrument’s profile within American culture. In addition to his Grammy nominations, he’s earned a number of honors over the years, including the International Bluegrass Music Award for Banjo Player of the Year, and being named a United States Artists Friends Fellow. In addition to performing, Tony is one of its most respected and sought-after instructors creating fifteen instructional books, as well as a series of DVDs. In 2009, he launched the groundbreaking Tony Trischka School of Banjo with ArtistWorks, an advanced, interactive, online instructional site that is the banjo home for students from around the world.
More Information
This program is made possible by Susan Bay Nimoy, the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust, the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Charina Endowment Fund, the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, The Achelis and Bodman Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Michael Tuch Foundation, the Vidda Foundation, the Lemberg Foundation, and The Grodzins Fund.
This program is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Music programming also receives support from an endowment established by The Bydale Foundation, Mary Flager Cary Charitable Trust, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Christopher and Barbara Dixon, the Herman Goldman Foundation, William and Angela Haines, Walter and Marge Scheuer, and Zabar’s.
Symphony Space thanks our generous supporters, including our Board of Directors, Producers Circle, and members, who make our programs possible with their annual support.
It’s a truly extraordinary moment to be here for the 21/22 Symphony Space season! We are so grateful to the independent venue operators who banded together to initiate the Save Our Stages campaign, which became the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant. Through the leadership of Senator Chuck Schumer, and with bipartisan support from many Senators and Representatives, the creative community was bolstered by this special funding. All of us at Symphony Space extend our heartfelt thanks to each and every individual who recognized the unmistakable power and importance of the arts in this most critical moment.
Kathy Landau Executive Director
Peg Wreen Managing Director
Isaiah Sheffer*
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1988)
Artistic Director (1988-2010)
Founding Artistic Director (2010-2012)
Allan Miller
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1988)
Darren Critz Director of Performing Arts Programs
Sofia Frohna, Assistant Producer of Performing Arts Programs
*in memoriam
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