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David Grisman - Mandolin
R. Carlos Nakai - Native American Flutes
Titos Sompa - Percussion, voice, guitar
Christopher Hedge - Guitar, Dulcimer,
keyboards, mandolin, banjo
Edward McClary - Field drums
Strings
Julian Smedley - Violin
Joseph Herbert - Cello
Irish Instruments
Joe Weed - Fiddle
David Brewer - Bagpipes, Penny whistle,
Bohdran, Irish flute
David Grisman Bluegrass Experience
David Grisman - Mandolin
Samson Grisman - Bass
Jim Nunally - Guitar
Chad Manning - Fiddle
Keith Little - Banjo
Brass and additional Field Drums
Eighth Regiment Band, Rome, GA
Andrew Jackson - The Atrocious Saint - Christpher Hedge
From the Trail of Tears to the Washington Elite, From the Plantation to an Atrocious Saint: Re-creating the Underexplored Musical Dialogue of Africans, Frontiersmen, Irish & Native Americans in Early America Exploring history through its music uncovers stories left out in high school textbooks. This period was arguably the most defining era in American history: one that saw the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Westward expansion, the rise of slavery, and the removal of Native Americans from their homelands to make way for the burgeoning American commercial-agricultural machine. It also shaped the first man of humble origins to become President of the new nation and founder the Democratic Party. In an election year in which the issues of race, immigration, class, gender, and regionalism are on every citizen s lips, many Americans may be asking themselves, how did we get here?
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Real history is in the spaces between things;
it is in the dynamics, the electricity, the
relationships between the moments, and people
in history that really tell the story. It is
visceral, multi-vocal, conversational; but
rarely do we come face-to-face with history.
Music reaches into the emotion of times past.
The Atrocious Saint puts you right there,
weaving together the voices and experiences
of slaves and Indians, frontiersmen, and the
Washington elite though enlisting their relics
and descendants.
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