Grammy Awardwinning musician Dom Flemons will take the stage at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 8. Tickets can be purchased one hour before the concert at the ACA or online a www.aca.tix.com. Cost for adults is $20 and $5 for kids 18 and under.
Dom Flemons, co-founder of the “Carolina Chocolate Drops,” is a Grammy Award-winning musician, singer-songwriter, and slam poet. Carrying on the songster tradition, Flemons strives to mix traditional music forms with a contemporary approach to create new sounds that appeal to wider audiences.
In his recent solo album Prospect Hill (2014), Flemons draws from a wide range of styles, including ragtime, Piedmont blues, spirituals, Southern traditional, string-band, fife-and-drum, and jug-band music.
Flemons began his career as a performer in Phoenix, Ariz., where he produced 25 albums for singer-songwriters and slam poets. In 2005, Flemons co-founded the “Carolina Chocolate Drops,” an African- American string band that won a Grammy for its 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig.
Today, Flemons tours throughout the United States as The American Songster. In February 2016, he performed at Carnegie Hall for a “Tribute to Lead Belly.” In September 2016, he performed at the opening ceremonies for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
Also an internationally touring artist, Flemons released his latest album, Ever Popular Favourites (Fledg’ling, 2016) with British guitar player Martin Simpson. Flemons’ current solo album project, to be released through Smithsonian Folkways, will celebrate the stories and songs of black cowboys.
Flemons has released two instructional DVDs through Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop, and he has a new podcast called American Songster Radio, in conjunction with WUNC North Carolina Public Radio.
Flemons will take the stage at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 8. Ticket sales open at the ACA at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $20 for adults and $5 for kids 18 and under. To purchase tickets in advance go online at www.aca.tix.com
In addition to the evening concert, NSMA will also host two educational outreach events by Dom Flemons at the Grand Marais Public Library on July 8. Both of these events are free and open to all ages: an American folk music history talk and demo at 1 p.m.; and “Rhythm Bones” workshop at 2 p.m. (rhythm bones provided; participants welcome to bring guitars, fiddles, banjoes, etc. to jam).
This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council with money from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008 and an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature.
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