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With each vaccine administered, we inch just a little closer to enjoying live music together again. Until then, get acquainted with this week's featured

Decades of history, resilience and pride live at the intersection of 5th Street NE and East Tudor Street. Known to many as Guest’s Corner, the neighborhood was a bustling hub for the Black community in Paris dating back to the 1920s when Paris was segregated and Black residents and business owners founded a place for themselves in an often hostile environment. “We called it ‘Little Black Paris,’” said Mary Desmond, who spent her youth at Guest’s Corner. Paris native Elbert Desmond, Mary’s husband of 65 years, said the land was gifted to the community by a bu...

Growing up in Compton in the 1960s, Deborah Swan always looked forward to visits from her grandfather, Leon Hefflin Sr. A handsome, dapper man who wore a suit and a hat, Hefflin was a perpetual tinkerer. He had built her brother's bunk bed and created an aromatic tincture, Leon's Foot Ointment. "He smoked a pipe and was very quiet. He never bragged about himself," Swan recalls. If he had been inclined to do so, he would've had plenty to say. Hefflin was a dreamer, a serial entrepreneur, a breaker of color barriers and the producer of the Cavalcade of Jazz, a trailblazing annual music festival...

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram (Photo: Rory Doyle) If ever there were a time for the blues, it was 2020. In the United States, more than 300,000 people died, and many times more were sickened, by COVID-19, a disease that disproportionately affects people of color. In its wake, the economy collapsed. Millions lost work, businesses failed, entire industries were shuttered. Although billionaires managed to get richer, the poor and middle class struggled to put food on the table, with long lines at food banks from coast to coast. The nation endured a deeply divisive election—a fight that ...

Program #233 (January 29 at 8:00 p.m. and January 30 at 3:00 p.m.) A singer, songwriter, and guitarist with a keen eye for the details of American life and a powerful and passionate performing style, Dave Alvin helped to kick-start the American roots rock scene in the early '80s with the band the Blasters, and has since gone on to a career as a solo performer, songwriter, producer, and sideman that's been as well respected as it is eclectic. Born in Downey, California in 1955, Alvin was raised by a family of music fans, and as teenagers Dave and his older brother Phil immersed themselves in b...