Been All Around This World

12 - The Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh, 70 years later

August 30, 2021, is the 70-year anniversary of the 1951 Edinburgh People’s Festival Ceilidh, the seminal event that heralded and generated the Scottish...

11 - "Making It In Hell": Parchman Farm, 1933–1969

Brutality and inhumanity were central to the Southern state prison farms, in their theory and their practice, and of them all, the Mississippi State...

10 - Singing from the Sacred Harp, 1928-1983

Sacred Harp -- the four-part shape-note singing tradition long confined to the American South, but recently enjoying remarkable international popularity...

09 - The Mississippi Hill Country, 1942-1978

1. Sid Hemphill and band: The Carrier Line (or the Carrier song). Sledge, Mississippi, August 1942.

2. Sid Hemphill and Lucius Smith: Going Away,...

08 - The Southern Journey at 60

The Fall 2019 season of the program will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the so-called "Southern Journey" field-recording trip and explore various...