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Grammy Award-Winning Musician Dom Flemons

by The Urban News

Dr. Dom Flemons has built a reputation on presenting 100 years of American roots music.

Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, the Black and Mexican roots music artist has lived in North Carolina, New York, and Washington, D.C. He has performed all over the world and has collaborated with many musicians, including Tyler Childers, Fantastic Negrito, and Rhiannon Giddens and the Carolina Chocolate Drops. His solo albums include Prospect Hill: The American Songster Omnibus and Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys, which is part of the African American Legacy Recordings series.

His latest album, which will be released March 24, 2023 is Traveling Wildfire. Carefully selected from his personal repertoire, the original songs on the album reveal his love of country, western, blues, Americana, bluegrass, and folk music as they tell of true love, family legacy, survival, time travel, and the juxtaposition between light and dark.

Dom Flemons – The Making of ‘Traveling Wildfire’ (behind the scenes documentary)

Traveling Wildfire includes everything from rhythm bones to the gourd banjo and stone mason jug. The album weaves through themes of hope and humor as it rises above hard times with strength and lightheartedness.

Dr. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, historian, actor, slam poet, record collector, and WSM radio producer, and is considered an expert player of the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife, and rhythm bones. Listen to American Songster Radio hosted by Dom Flemons at wsmradio.com/shows/american-songster-radio.

Catch Flemons live on Saturday, April 29, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. in Owen Theatre on the campus of Mars Hill University. A screening of the film Night Music, takes place before the concert. The event, hosted by the multi-talented musician, is free and open to the public.

Night Music is a short film inspired by the prison recordings created by folklorist…

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