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HOWDY,
Hey there kids how are things on your end of the world? The weather is beginning to look a lot more like spring and summer. OH HELL YEAH! Goodbye cold snap. This Wednesdays show
Will be my second segment of Brian Smalley’s acoustic novel “Chosen”. I will start the show with episode 3 then the rest of the show will be my final nod the February’s Black History month. I will be featuring some amazing African American singer/songwriters and performers in Americana. Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal, Don Flemons, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Ted Hawkins, Son House just to name a few. So stop on by and pull up a chair and give it a listen. Looking forward to seeing you on the radio this Wednesday night, 7pm! CYA then!
The 2019 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival featured nine nights of concerts on Parcel 5. Downtown Rochester bar owners are hoping the organizers of the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival will change their mind on moving the event to Henrietta, if not this year, then next. Festival co-producers Marc Iacona and John Nugent announced Thursday that they plan to move the nine-day concert series from its traditional location downtown to the Rochester Institute of Technology, in part to adhere to current social distancing guidelines. The event attracted more that 200,000 people in 2019. Michael O’Leary, who has owned Temple Bar and Grille on East Avenue for the last 14 years, said the last one has been the hardest. He had 22 employees a year ago. Today, he has seven. Like most bar owners, the pandemic forced him to seek aid from the city, the county, and the federal government just to stay afloat.
Feb 10, 2021
This week on The Show On The Road, in honor of Black History Month, we bring you a conversation with members of foundational gospel group, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, including longtime singer Ricky McKinnie and beloved senior member Jimmy Carter, who has been with the group for four decades.
LISTEN: APPLE PODCASTS • SPOTIFY • STITCHERFormed in the late 1930s with talent discovered at the Alabama Institute For The Negro Blind, the Blind Boys of Alabama have superseded limitations to bring their own high-spirited version of jubilee gospel throughout the world. Their music was often the backdrop to the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther King Jr. toured the south, and Jimmy and Ricky are both amazed and grateful that their message is still ringing true throughout the latest iteration Black Lives Matter movement that grew during the tumultuous last year.
Christopher Berinato
For Do Savannah
Grammy Award winning funk master Trae Pierce and his band the T-Stones are returning to Savannah for a funky good time at Barrelhouse South.
Trae Pierce, who earned four Grammys playing with the Blind Boys of Alabama, began his storied music career performing in gospel groups as a young boy, but then at 13 years old he began working with the legendary Ohio Players.
“By the time I was about 17 I started playing with the Ohio Players,” said Pierce. “I knew ‘em since I was smaller because at first I was hanging out and being their helper.