{"116":{"ID":13224,"post_type":"programs","title":"Death and Mourning in American Folk Music 12\/6\/16","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2016-09-27 15:52:42","name":"death-and-mourning-in-american-folk-music","parent":0,"modified":"2017-10-04 18:32:24","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":26,"name":"Performances","slug":"performance","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":26,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":13433,"id":13433,"title":"Screen Shot 2016-09-27 at 11.30.25 AM","filename":"Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","filesize":525079,"url":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/death-and-mourning-in-american-folk-music\/screen-shot-2016-09-27-at-11-30-25-am\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"screen-shot-2016-09-27-at-11-30-25-am","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":13224,"date":"2016-09-27 15:30:42","modified":"2016-09-27 15:30:42","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":797,"height":474,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM-300x178.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":178,"medium_large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":457,"large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","large-width":797,"large-height":474,"1536x1536":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","1536x1536-width":797,"1536x1536-height":474,"2048x2048":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","2048x2048-width":797,"2048x2048-height":474}},"list_image":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-11.30.25-AM.png","headline":"Death and Mourning in American Folk Music","di_date":"2016-12-06","excerpt":"
Musicians Eli Smith, the Four O\u2019Clock Flowers, and Mamie Minch will play American folk songs centered around the theme of death and mourning in the down-home tradition. A conversation with the musicians will conclude the performance.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"8:30 pm","performer_or_host":"Eli Smith, the Four O\u2019Clock Flowers, and Mamie Minch","admission":"$7 members, students, seniors; $10 non-members","main_content":"
Musicians Eli Smith, the Four O\u2019Clock Flowers, and Mamie Minch will play American folk songs centered around the theme of death and mourning in the down-home tradition. A conversation with the musicians will conclude the performance.<\/p>\n
Beer will be graciously provided by Lagunitas Brewing Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eli Smith<\/strong> is a banjo player, writer, researcher, and promoter of folk music, living in Brooklyn, NY.\u00a0 Eli is a Smithsonian Folkways recording artist and produces two folk festivals annually: the\u00a0Brooklyn Folk Festival\u00a0in the spring and\u00a0Washington Square Park Folk Festival<\/a>\u00a0in the fall.\u00a0 He has appeared as a guest on terrestrial radio stations such as WBAI, WNYC, WKCR, and WDST in New York and KPFA, KPFK, and KUCI in California.\u00a0 Eli has presented panels and discussions on folk music at the Left Forum conference and at the Podcamp podcasting conference in New York City.\u00a0 In 2004 he traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, as an American delegate to the Encuentro Mundial de Intelectuales y Artistas \u201cEn Defense de la Humanidad\u201d (World Encounter of Intellectuals and Artists \u201cfor the Defense of Humanity\u201d).\u00a0 Eli also served as music consultant for the Civil War film\u00a0Racing Daylight\u00a0<\/em>(2007).\u00a0 He has performed and recorded with his old time string band\u00a0The Down Hill Strugglers<\/a>, as well as with Peter Stampfel and John Cohen. The Down Hill Strugglers were recently featured on the soundtrack album to the Coen Brothers\u2019 film\u00a0Inside Llewyn Davis<\/em> (2013),\u00a0which was produced by T Bone Burnett.<\/p>\n The Four O’Clock Flowers\u00a0<\/strong>are a New York-based folk and blues duo composed of Samoa Wilson and Ernest Vega.<\/p>\n Mamie Minch<\/strong> is a blues guitarist and singer. She plays songs that sound like they’ve been stored inside her 1930’s National steel guitar for decades. She has found her voice in reviving and writing antique blues songs and ballads that bridge historical record and contemporary life. Her low-down, tough tenor singing voice is supported by a guitar style drawn from Memphis Minnie and Bukka White. She lives and plays in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photo credits: (Left) Eli Smith by Lou Murray; (Right) Mamie Minch by Rowan Renee.<\/span><\/p>\n","gallery":[{"acf_fc_layout":"video","url":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/201152663","host":"Vimeo"}],"show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Reserve tickets","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/death-and-mourning-in-american-folk-music-tickets-27939319256","day":"06","month":"Dec","year":"2016","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/death-and-mourning-in-american-folk-music\/"},"117":{"ID":12434,"post_type":"programs","title":"Society, Community, and Culture: Ronald Lockett in Context 8\/9\/16","content":"","status":"publish","date":"2016-05-31 19:27:43","name":"society-community-and-culture-ronald-lockett-in-context-8916","parent":0,"modified":"2016-09-29 19:19:13","series?":"Program","category":{"term_id":26,"name":"Performances","slug":"performance","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":26,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":18,"count":0,"filter":"raw"},"main_image":{"ID":12436,"id":12436,"title":"Lockett_prog","filename":"Lockett_prog.jpg","filesize":32022,"url":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lockett_prog.jpg","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/society-community-and-culture-ronald-lockett-in-context-8916\/lockett_prog\/","alt":"","author":"16","description":"","caption":"","name":"lockett_prog","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":12434,"date":"2016-05-31 19:25:05","modified":"2016-05-31 19:25:05","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/site\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1260,"height":504,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lockett_prog-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lockett_prog-300x120.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":120,"medium_large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lockett_prog.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":307,"large":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lockett_prog-1024x409.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":409,"1536x1536":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lockett_prog.jpg","1536x1536-width":1260,"1536x1536-height":504,"2048x2048":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lockett_prog.jpg","2048x2048-width":1260,"2048x2048-height":504}},"list_image":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lockett_prog_403.jpg","headline":"Society, Community, and Culture: Ronald Lockett in Context","di_date":"2016-08-09","excerpt":" Director Camille A. Brown will perform an excerpt from her 2014 Bessie Award\u2013Winning production “Mr. TOL E. RA<\/em>ncE<\/em>”\u00a0and will speak about shared cultural themes and issues of race that are common to her and Ronald Lockett’s work.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"8:00 pm","admission":"$10 members, students, seniors; $12 non-members","main_content":"