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The Alabama Blues Project thanks the community for its turnout and enthusiasm for the Honeydripper film premiere at the Bama Theatre. We were very grateful to have director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi here for the event. They were both very pleased with all the support shown for the movie and the ABP.
We would also like to extend special thanks to the Arts Council of Tuscaloosa County – particularly Pam Pennick, without whom this could not have been possible. Thank you also to Jeremy Butler, the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences, Tommy Fell, Josh and Rebecca Rothman, Joanna Jacobs, Dr. Sarita Elizabeth Cox, Jarrett Hudson, Omar Dinkins, our extraordinary Board of Directors, and all of our friends for your much appreciated help.
While Honeydripper is fiction, the tradition of blues in Alabama is very real. It is our mission at the ABP to preserve and promote this heritage. Alabama, unlike Mississippi, has not yet realized its potential for cultural tourism that is possible through the effective promotion of the blues in our state. Our dream is to have a living blues museum with space for teaching and performance, as well as exhibition space for traveling and permanent collections, and archival storage to appropriately preserve the rich blues history that exists in this state. Click here for more information about our preservation projects.
To help promote the 2007 Freedom Creek Blues Festival on May 25-26, this program is a rebroadcast of Rebecca Ryals interviewing Willie King at the 2003 Freedom Creek Blues Festival in Old Memphis near Aliceville, includes musical examples.
Jerry "Boogie" McCain, Alabama Folk Heritage Award Winner
This program is a rebroadcast to help promote the Alabama State Council on the Arts' "A Celebration of the Arts Awards" held May 16th, 2007 at the Davis Theater in Montgomery where bluesman Jerry "Boogie" McCain received the Alabama Folk Heritage Award. In the radio program Folklife Specialist Anne Kimzey interviewed Jerry McCain about his life and music career at his home in Gadsden Alabama. Musical examples are included in the program.
Debbie Bond and Alabama Blues Project Blues Camp, September 2005
Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, conducts an interview with Debbie Bond, Executive Director of the Alabama Blues Project. The Alabama Blues Project is a non-profit organization, located in Tuscaloosa, which focus on the promotion, documentation and presentation of the Blues.
Joey Brackner, visits the 2004 Black Belt Roots Festival in Eutaw, Alabama. He talks with festival organizers, craft artists and a Fayette County step group that performed at the recent event.
Joey Brackner interviews singer/songwriter and folklife researcher Russell Gulley about his musical career and new CD Back to the Swap. Musical examples are included.
This program is a broadcast of a 1991 Radiovisions series that features bluesman Johnny Shines. Radiovisions is a production of Russell Gulley and the Big Wills Arts Council of Ft. Payne Alabama. The Radiovisions series of programs were initially released as audio cassettes. This particular program is a brief biography of the late Johnny Shines and his music.
Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, conducts an interview with Debbie Bond, Executive Director of the Alabama Blues Project. The Alabama Blues Project is a non-profit organization, located in Tuscaloosa, which focus on the promotion, documentation and presentation of the Blues.
The Alabama Blues Project thanks the community for its turnout and enthusiasm for the Honeydripper film premiere at the Bama Theatre. We were very grateful to have director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi here for the event. They were both very pleased with all the support shown for the movie and the ABP.
