Archive for September, 2022Episode 4: Culture and Film Preserved – PodcastWednesday, September 28th, 2022
Our theme music is by Joshua Mickens. Special thanks to Al Dawson for his engineering help.
Episode 3: The College Experience in Durham Pt. 2 – PodcastSunday, September 18th, 2022
Shimei Cook hosts and co-produces this episode about the state of college life for students who were in college during the start of pandemic lockdowns and remote learning. Cook also discusses making friends on campus as a freshman with his roommate, both of whom were in high school during remote learning.
Our theme music is by Joshua Mickens. Special thanks to Al Dawson for engineering help.
Episode 2: The College Experience in Durham Pt. 1 – PodcastMonday, September 12th, 2022
Shimei Cook hosts and co-produces this episode about the state of college life for students who were in college during the start of pandemic lockdowns and remote learning. Cook also discusses making friends on campus as a freshman with his roommate, both of whom were in high school during remote learning.
Our theme music is by Joshua Mickens. Special thanks to Al Dawson for engineering help.
Episode 1: The State of Small Businesses in Durham – PodcastMonday, September 12th, 2022
Shanya Hayes hosts, reports and produces this episode about the state of small businesses in Durham. She shares stories from her own experiences, visiting her Grandmother’s business in Durham’s Lakewood neighborhood, working in restaurants and growing up in Durham.
Our theme music is by Joshua Mickens. Special thanks to Al Dawson for engineering help.
Preview: Subject to Change – PodcastThursday, September 1st, 2022
Cécile McLorin SalvantThursday, September 1st, 2022
Born and raised in Miami, Florida, of a French mother and Haitian father, she started classical piano studies at 5, sang in a children’s choir at 8, and started classical voice lessons as a teenager. Salvant received a bachelor’s in French law from the Université Pierre-Mendes France in Grenoble while also studying baroque music and jazz at the Darius Milhaud Music Conservatory in Aix-en-Provence, France. Salvant’s latest work, Ogresse, is a musical fable in the form of a cantata that blends genres (folk, baroque, jazz, country). Salvant wrote the story, lyrics, and music. It is arranged by Darcy James Argue for a thirteen-piece orchestra of multi-instrumentalists. Ogresse, both a biomythography and an homage to the Erzulie (as painted by Gerard Fortune) and Sara Baartman, explores fetishism, hunger, diaspora, cycles of appropriation, lies, othering, and ecology. It is in development to become an animated feature-length film, which Salvant will direct. Salvant makes large-scale textile drawings. Her visual art can now be found at Picture Room in Brooklyn, NY. Originally published at cecilemclorinsalvant.com Photo credits:
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Producer and intern Iyana Addison has been looking into the history of the Hayti Heritage Center, and the annual film festival it holds. This is a story about Durham, about people remembering and taking record of the things that have happened here, and championing Black art, culture and film.
Cécile McLorin Salvant, is a composer, singer, and visual artist. The late Jessye Norman described Salvant as“a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings”. Salvant has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions from around the world, theater, jazz, and baroque music. Salvant is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor. Salvant won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010. She has received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for three consecutive albums, “The Window”, “Dreams and Daggers”, and “For One To Love”, and was nominated for the award in 2014 for her album “WomanChild”. In 2020, Salvant received the MacArthur fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. Nonesuch Records released “Ghost Song” in March 2022.