News & Opinion
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LOMAX VIDEO NOW ON YOUTUBE
ACE has launched an Alan Lomax Archive channel on YouTube. Featuring clips selected from the 400 hours of raw footage shot for Lomax's PBS American Patchwork series, the channel provides an introduction to the diverse cast of musicians, singers, dancers, story-tellers, and one-of-a-kind characters filmed by Alan and crew between 1978 and 1985, as well as an entree into the Video Catalog portion of ACE's Research Center. The first uploads include performances by Hill Country bluesman R.L. Burnside, old-time fiddler Tommy Jarrell, ballads by Sheila Kay Adams and Cas Wallin, former Mississippi Sheik Sam Chatmon, union activist and singer Nimrod Workman, hot jazz bassist Chester Zardis, and the White Eagles Mardi Gras Indians.
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HELP HAITI WITH MUSIC
Musical Selections from Alan Lomax in Haiti is being sold through Amazon with 100% of the proceeds going to The Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti, Doctors Without Borders, and Partners in Health.
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"THE DAY WE FALL IS NOT THE DAY WE SINK"
Gage Averill, president of the Society for Ethnomusicology, gives us a first-hand account of a recent trip to earthquake-torn Haiti, and an update on the Haiti repatriation project.
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"THE RECOVERY OF OUR GRENADIAN HERITAGE IS A PRIORITY!!"
In a meeting at ACE on January 12, Hon. Dessima Williams, Ambassador from Grenada to the U.N., said that her government is making the preservation and recovery of Grenadian cultural traditions a definite priority. Folklorist and musician, Winston Fleary, a long time cultural leader from Carriacou transplanted to New York, convened the meeting to plan preparations for the repatriation of Alan Lomax's 1962 recordings and photographs in Grenada and Carriacou.
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ACE REPATRIATION PROJECT SELECTED BY CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE
ACE's Haiti Repatriation and Cultural Preservation Project was selected as an outstanding project of the Clinton Global initiative in Haiti, sponsored by the Green Family Foundation, a humanitarian agency based in Miami and operating in Haiti, and a partner of the CGI.
THIS WEEK ON "ROOT HOG OR DIE"
Good time, hard time, old time, end time music, hosted by ACE's own Nathan Salsburg. New programs every Tuesday at 10am. This week, Western U.S, music from Mormon trail songs to Bob Wills.
