Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons at the Folk School - CANCELED
Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons are veterans of KDHX's Folk & Roots Festival. Ben and Joe spend the day at the Folk School offering workshops and performing in concert.
For more information about Joe and Ben's workshops, visit https://FolkSchoolStL.org.
Seattle songsters Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons give life to voices that have long been silenced in American culture. Their award-winning performances are highlighted by story-telling that, rather than bringing the past to life, vividly shows how the past still lives in the present. Through their songs, audiences witness current issues crop up again and again in folk songs, dance tunes, acoustic blues, and prison ballads. Ben & Joe bounce from fiddle & banjo breakdowns to a cappella field hollers, early jazz to gospel songs featuring Piedmont guitar style and rattlin’ bones. With the same versatility that won them the International Blues Challenge in 2016, and allowed them to record with National Heritage Fellow Phil Wiggins, the duo celebrates the ways Americans have triumphed over oppression through the vitality of their art. Audiences walk away from Ben & Joe’s concerts and workshops inspired to learn more of their own history, and engage more deeply with their communities.
In May of 2019, the duo was recognized by the Ethnic Heritage Council with the Gordon Ekvall Tracie Memorial Award for excellence in ethnic performance and significant contributions to the development and presentation of the traditional cultural arts in the Pacific Northwest.
This FREE event is made possible by generous support from Missouri Arts Council.
Event Properties
Event Date | 04-05-2020 6:00 pm |
Location | Folk School of KDHX |