Reid Lunch-hour Concert
Lecture / performance on 1920s American folk and blues.
Member of American band 'The Americans'.
The Americans
Patrick Ferris - vocals, banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica
Jake Faulkner - guitar, jug, harmonica
Zac Sokolow - vocals, banjo, fiddle, guitar
Programme
The Americans present the saga of rural recording artists who became unlikely stars in the emerging genres of country and blues, setting standards for popular music to this day. Performing faithful renditions of various styles of early blues, folk and country on banjo, fiddle, harmonica and guitar, the band discusses the unprecendented melding of culture and musical genres precipitated by the recording industry boom of the 1920s and early '30s.
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