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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Casey Smith – Mourning Blues
Published By Lamont Jack Pearley During a 1939 folklorist excursion to the Clemens State Prison Farm, John Lomax and his wife Ruby recorded several musicians as they stayed on the Varner-Hogg Plantation in West Columbia and drove about 15 miles to Clemens. There they recorded Blues…

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Hot Supper
Published/Written by Lamont Jack Pearley In the late 1980’s throughout the 1990’s I attended several social gatherings from the south to the northeast in which I had no idea, that in fact, I was living a piece of history and tradition shared by my ancestors.…

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