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Archive: July 2019 (2 Posts)

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Homegrown Plus: Traditional Hindustani Music with Soumya Chakraverty and Devapriya Nayak

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

In the Homegrown Plus series, we present Homegrown concerts that also had accompanying oral history interviews, placing both together in an easy-to-find blog post. (Find the whole series here!) We’re continuing the series with a concert and oral history with Soumya Chakraverty and Devapriya Nayak. This event was cosponsored with the Library of Congress Asian American Association …

Posted in: Asian American History, Folk Music, Homegrown Plus, Oral History

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Homegrown Plus: Alash Ensemble Performs the Music of Tuva

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

In the Homegrown Plus series, we present Homegrown concerts that also had accompanying oral history interviews, placing both together in an easy-to-find blog post. (Find the whole series here!) We’re continuing the series with a concert and oral history with the Alash Ensemble The Alash Ensemble are masters of techniques for singing multiple pitches at …

Posted in: Folk Music, Folksong