In many locations across the US and Canada, Indigenous Peoples Day has replaced the Columbus Day holiday. For this week’s show, we’ll celebrate North American musicians who have created a distinctive personal musical style drawing from their ancestral or regional roots. We’ll hear from Bill Miller, Jon Batiste, Kaia Kater and Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles and many more. We’re digging North American roots … on the next Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways
Douglas Spotted Eagle / “Snow Geese” / Between Father Sun and Mother Earth / Narada
Bill Miller / “Forgive” / Ghostdance / Vanguard
Spirit Wind / “Whipoorwill Story-Whipoorwill” / To Future from Past / Independent
Chester Mahooty / “Beautiful Rain Song” / Spirit of the Native Indians / ARC

Jon Batiste / “Kenner Boogie” / Hollywood Africans / Verve
Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers / “Dr. Jazz” / Cities of Jazz-New Orleans / Cities of Jazz
Rebirth Brass Band / “You Move Ya Lose” / Rollin’ / Rounder
Douglas Spotted Eagle / “The Holy People” / Between Father Sun and Mother Earth / Narada

Kaia Kater / “The Right One” / Grenades / Smithsonian Folkways
Cheik Hamala Diabate and Bob Carlin / “Danaya-Jonny Boker” / From Mali to America / 5 String
Joe and Odell Thompson / “Love Somebody” / Black Banjo Songsters / Smithsonian Folkways
Sankofa Strings / “Black Eyed Susie” / Colored Aristocracy / TN Productions

Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles / “My Oblivion will Find You” / Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles
              / Smithsonian Folkways
Flaco & Max / “La Viejita (The Little Old Lady) / Legends & Legacies / Smithsonian Folkways
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways