Louisiana folklorist Nick Spitzer and Mississippi blues musician R.L. Boyce are among nine 2023 National Heritage Fellows being celebrated later this month by the National Endowment for the Arts. Spitzer is an anthropology professor at Tulane University’s School of Liberal Arts who has hosted the popular radio show “American Routes” for the past 25 years. Boyce is a blues musician from the Mississippi hill country who has played blues for 50 years. Spitzer, Boyce and others are scheduled to accept the NEA’s Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellowship in a Sept. 29 ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The other 2023 heritage fellows are: Ed Eugene Carriere, a Suquamish basket maker from Indianola, Washington; Michael A. Cummings, an African American quilter from New York; Joe DeLeon “Little Joe” Hernandez, a Tejano music performer from Temple, Texas; Roen Hufford, a kapa (bark cloth) maker from Waimea, Hawaii; Elizabeth James-Perry, a wampum and fiber artist from Dartmouth, Massachusetts; Luis Tapia, a sculptor and Hispano woodcarver from Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Wu Man, a pipa player from Carlsbad, California.