Lamont Jack Pearley - Jack Dappa Blues

Lamont Jack Pearley – Executive Director/ Founder

Lamont Jack Pearley is an award-winning Independent Filmmaker and radio journalist. Pearley’s discipline is an applied folklorist, ethnographer, African American traditional music historian, and Blues practitioner. He is founder and Editor in Chief of the African American Folklorist Magazine, and also hosts a weekly segment on WKU Public Radio & NPR called the African American Folklorist. He was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame as Great Blues Historian and TV/Radio Producer (2017) and Great Blues Artist (2018). Pearley works in Folklore’s academic and public sectors, where his expertise assists, artists, communities and local advocacies in documenting their stories, strategizing, and implementing long-term goals for cultural sustainability.