Description
Alive in Many Voices is a concert curated by American Folklife Center (AFC) Board of Trustee members Natalie Merchant, Martha Gonzalez, and Lori Pourier. Merchant, Gonzalez, and Pourier selected three groups of young musicians, representing cultural communities from across the United States, to perform field recordings from the collections of the American Folklife Center. These include students from Maȟpíya Lúta/Red Cloud School (Lakhota songs from South Dakota), Bayla Davis (Appalachian music from North Carolina), and Quetzal (East LA Chicano music). The concert also features songs from Natalie Merchant. The American Folklife Center hosted this concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the AFC and the public launch of the exhibition, "Alive in Many Hands: The American Folklife Center at 50."
For transcript and more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/video-13174/