Events at the Library of Congress

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

  • Event | concerts and performances
    Homegrown: Walter Parks Wednesday
    August 12, 2020
     12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Walter Parks was raised in Jacksonville, Florida. A consummate guitarist, he formed the duo The Nudes in 1991, and spent much of the 1990s touring with them around the US. The Nudes toured as a supporting act for Woodstock legend Richie Havens, and after the duo’s breakup Parks was enlisted as Havens’s guitarist and right-hand man. With Havens, Walter performed Madison Square Garden, Carnegie...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

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    Homegrown: Carmen Agra Deedy Wednesday
    August 19, 2020
     12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Carmen Agra Deedy is an internationally known storyteller represented in multiple American Folklife Center collections, and the author of twelve books for children, including The Library Dragon, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach, and the New York Times bestseller 14 Cows for America. She is an accomplished lecturer, having been a guest speaker for both the TED and TEDx Conferences, as well as the Library of...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

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    Homegrown: Eva Salina & Peter Stan Wednesday
    August 26, 2020
     12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     California-grown, Brooklyn-based Eva Salina is a groundbreaking interpreter of Balkan songs. Raised in the US Balkan Diaspora, Eva's mentors are some of the greatest living Balkan musicians. Eva's duo partner, Peter “Perica” Stan, is a Serbian/Romanian Roma accordionist known for his playful innovation and soulful, intuitive improvisations. In their collaboration, Eva Salina & Peter Stan pick up and continue an interrupted legacy of empowered...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

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    Homegrown: Si Kahn & Joe Jencks Wednesday
    September 2, 2020
     12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Si Kahn has worked for over 45 years as a musician as well as a civil rights, labor and community organizer. As a musician, Kahn has performed internationally at concerts and festivals. His musical body of work includes 15 albums of original songs for adults and children, plus a collection of traditional labor, civil rights and women's songs recorded with Pete Seeger and Jane...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020

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    Homegrown: Reggie Harris Wednesday
    September 9, 2020
     12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Reggie Harris is a singer, songwriter, and storyteller on a mission to educate, entertain, and inspire. For over 40 years, he has captivated audiences to standing ovations in the US, Canada, and across Europe as half of the duo Kim & Reggie Harris. Though Kim has curtailed her performance career, Reggie continues to criss-cross the country, carrying a message of joy, unity, tolerance and...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

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    Homegrown: Dom Flemons Wednesday
    September 16, 2020
     12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Dom Flemons, a Grammy Award winner, two-time Emmy nominee, and 2019 Wammie Award winner, is originally from Phoenix, Arizona and currently lives in the Washington, DC, area. In 2005, Flemons co-founded the Grammy award-winning group, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. He left the group to pursue his solo career in 2014. Today he is known as "The American Songster," since his repertoire of music covers...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

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    Homegrown: Phil Wiggins Wednesday
    September 23, 2020
     12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Harmonica master Phil Wiggins, who was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 2017, has appeared in AFC’s Homegrown Concert Series, Summer Music Jam series, and Archive Challenge. According to the National Council for Traditional Arts, "Phil Wiggins is arguably America’s foremost blues harmonica virtuoso.
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    Homegrown: Chum Ngek Wednesday
    September 23, 2020
     12:30 pm - 12:30 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Chum Ngek was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2004. He is both an artist and a teacher known for his performing ability on the roneat, a 21-keyed xylophone. Born in Battambang Province, Master Chum came to this country in the early 1980s with a wave of Cambodian refugees and has served as a musical and educational...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

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    Homegrown: Changüí Majadero Wednesday
    September 30, 2020
     12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Founded by tres guitarist and vocalist Gabriel García, Changüí Majadero was the result of García’s pivotal pilgrimage to the Guantanamo region of Cuba, where he learned the changüí from the living masters of the style and was inspired to spread the spirit of Cuban folkloric music mixed with a dash of East Los Angeles grit. Changüí is the predecessor of son cubano and salsa,...
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