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Russell added that with so much loss, pain and separation hitting all of us in 2020, it was impromptu dance parties and singalongs to a soundtrack that was half Eilish, half Lizzo that brought some light and levity to her, Ida and her daughters dad. "I’ve been meditating on the imbalances of celebrity culture -- how unfortunate our society’s tendency to first put people on impossible pedestals and then knock them down, particularly women," she wrote. "Billie’s grace under the magnifying g...

Follow Up With Our Native Daughters: Panel Discussion and Documentary If last week’s program, “The Black History of the Banjo,” whetted your appetite for more great music and more insights from the artists, we’ve got some good news for you. CMT and the Smithsonian Channel are streaming a virtual panel discussion with Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah and Allison Russell of Our Native Daughters, Fri., Feb. 26 at noon ET, occasioned by the new documentary on the band and their album. Writt...

Credit Photo Courtesy of the Artist Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms & the Music of New Orleans is a three hour documentary hosted by Haitian-American and New Orleans based artist and musician, Leyla McCalla, a founding member of Our Native Daughters & alumna of the GRAMMY award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. Leyla’s work unearthing history and musical tradition, combined with her knowledge of cultural hybridization and her own identity as a Haitian-American have given her a unique voice and persp...

Two of today’s most influential Black Women in folk, country, and southern soul music, share their unique story and journey in honor of Women’s History Month.

Afro Women Overcoming Enslavement ‘Reclaiming History: Our Native Daughters,’ is a documentary that explores the stories of enslaved Afro women by way of the 2019 folk album Songs of Our Native Daughters by four black female North-American singer-songwriters — Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell and Amythyst Kiah. Russell shares how the journey of bringing the project to life affected her. "The whole became greater than the sum of its parts. It felt like our ancestors were th...

Songs by Kalie Shorr, Amythyst Kiah, and Amy Shark with Keith Urban make up RS Country Music Picks for February 22nd.

Singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah earned a 2020 Grammy Awards Best American Roots Song nomination for her song "Black Myself," as originally recorded by Our Native Daughters, a quartet also featuring Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla and Allison Russell. A newly released solo version, however, offers a different look at the track. ""Black Myself" is the first song I’ve written that was confrontational. I’d always made it a point to sing songs that anybody could relate to, but this was somethin...

NASHVILLE - Playing a banjo as a Black female artist is a form of activism for the four members of Our Native Daughters.Their story, appearing in a new ...

Yeah more of the merengue, which we call twobadou. Rhythmically its very close to a merengue. I traveled to Haiti in 2012 and 2013, and that was the first time I had gone there as an adult. I went to this city in the north of Haiti called Cap Haitien, where a lot of this rural secular music originates and banjo was central traditionally to that style of music. What that music became is now called kompa. Traditionally its the banjo and the singer place the cha-cha accompanied by the tambu, wh...

KSUT will offer the following special programming in celebration of Black History Month during February: BARRELHOUSE BLUES, Tuesday 7-9 PM - During Black History Month, Barrelhouse Blues will explore decades of Black music that had the biggest impact on American culture, including the 1950’s, when Black musicians provided the genesis for rock & roll, and the 1960’s, when Black artists and their music became an important part of America’s mainstream music culture.  TALES OF THE NEW WEST,...