Southern Journey: Tribute to Alan Lomax, Live at Swallow Hill CD release show presented by Twist & Shout and Swallow Hill Music
**Take advantage of advance ticket prices, as they go up the day of the show!** ADV: $18/$16 MEM; DOS: $20/$18 MEM
The show, "Southern Journey: Tribute to Alan Lomax," is inspired by musicologist Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey, a 13-volume series of original field and studio recordings capturing the musical world of the rural South.
Lomax is one of the great figures in American music, indelibly linked to the folk music he worked tirelessly to preserve. His career stretched over six decades and his recordings of folk music fill the vaults at the Library of Congress. He drove thousands of miles down nameless roads seeking out the jewels of the human spirit and is most famous for his work in the penitentiaries, plantations and lonely farms of the Mississippi Delta, collecting songs and stories of the folk who lived there. These recordings would eventually be published as Southern Journey.
Southern Journey is a two-hour staged performance that brings the Lomax archives to life through story and song. Audiences experience what Lomax described as the “deep river of song that runs through the lives of all Americans” as a cast of 10 diverse musicians and singers revive the spirit of his collection with compelling authenticity. Southern Journey’s exuberant performances use a narrative that includes Lomax’s own eloquent descriptions of the songs and people he recorded singing them.
Southern Journey captures a uniquely American experience as the musicians and singers gather together on the porch. Work-calloused hands take up guitar and bass, banjo and fiddle, shaking off the dust of the day’s labor and fill the night air with song. This appearance will unveil and celebrate the live CD the band recorded at a previous Swallow Hill performance.
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