Black Traditional Music Practitioners

  • Professor Harp AKA Hugh Holmes

    Professor Harp AKA Hugh Holmes

    Under the influence of many diverse blues greats, Professor Harp has developed a robust playing style. He often utilizes the Leslie rotating-speaker sound system to give his harp a Hammond organ timbre, while he alternately and simultaneously employs the standard or traditional ‘electrified’ blues harp. The Professor tops this off by singing the blues with an infectious fervor,…

  • Veronika Jackson

    Veronika Jackson

    Veronika Jackson has taken the acoustic folk guitar and the history of her culture as an African-American woman, and has generated her own original, authentic and exciting style of music.  She is a rare and unique performer. Her smooth and strong interpretive vocals are very expressive. Her clear, simple rhythmic  clean way of piedmont…

  • Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo

    Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo

    The Piedmont Blūz acoustic duo are ambassadors of Country Blues music and the Piedmont style of fingerpicking, and their mission is to help preserve these rural, east coast traditions by educating audiences about this unique aspect of African American culture through musical entertainment. The husband and wife duo are much loved wherever they go. They feel…

  • Corey Harris

    Corey Harris

    Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer, Performer and Revolutionary, Corey Harris is a current Black Traditional Music Practitioner. Corey Harris has earned substantial critical acclaim as one of the few contemporary bluesmen able to channel the raw, direct emotion of acoustic Delta blues without coming off as an authenticity-obsessed historian. Contact Info: WORLDWIDE Bookings José Luis Pardo Email address:…

  • SHELTON KOTTON POWE JR

    SHELTON KOTTON POWE JR

    BLACK FOLK MUSIC: GOD IS GOOD, VOL. 1 – SHELTON KOTTON POWE JR Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation releases it’s first album of our Field Recording series. Check out Shelton Kotton Powe Jr. He’s a current Black Traditional Music Practitioner. “The heritage and culture that are the foundation of “African American Tribal Music” are…