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in this episode of Jack Dappa Blues Radio, Annika Chambers shares with us her experience as a Black Woman navigating the current Blues Music industry.  ANNIKA CHAMBERS, like so many powerful vocal artists, can trace her love of music back to early childhood. “I grew up singing in the church,” she says. Not that she had to tell us. Citing the gospel influences of Yolanda Adams, Shirley Caesar, Dottie Peoples, and Whitney Houston, you can’t help but feel the Spirit moving through the entire room when Annika throws herself into the heart of a song. Learn More about Annika here https://www.annikachambers.com/home For our health and wellness collection  https://lamontjackpearley.itworks.com/ https://denisepearley.itworks.com/ To Donate to The African American Folklorist Newspaper Campaign  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-african-american-folklorist-newspaper#/ To Register for our Black Folk Narrative Crowdfunding Concert https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-african-american-folklorist-newspaper-fundraising-concert-tickets-141364217179

In this episode of jack Dappa Blues Radio, I speak with Brother Christone Ingram, better known as King Fish. Clarksdale, Mississippi Blues legend in the making! King Fish discusses the culture, history, and meaning of the blues as it relates to fans, the industry, musicians, and the Black Community!   Once a generation, an artist comes along who not only reminds mainstream audiences how deeply satisfying and emotionally moving the best blues music can be but shakes the genre to its core. With both eyes on the future and the blues in his blood, 21-year-old guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Christone “Kingfish” Ingram continue to take the music world by storm after his 2019 release of his debut album, KINGFISH. Sprung from the same earth as so many of the Delta blues masters, Kingfish comes bursting out of Clarksdale, Mississippi, just ten miles from the legendary crossroads of Highways 61 and 49. A student of the Delta’s musical history, he is acutely aware of the musicians and the music that emerged from his corner of the world. “I do think I have an old soul, that I’ve been here before,” he says. “I’m moving forward with one foot in the past.”   "Is Christone "Kingfish" Ingram the future of the blues? The blues savior is one of the most exciting young guitarists in years, with a sound that encompasses B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix & Prince." —Rolling Stone    “You don’t see too many kids into blues music,” says the nascent star. “In my town, every kid wants to be a rapper – I wanted to do something no one else was doing.”  And although he grew up near the crossroads where Robert Johnson allegedly cut a deal with the devil, Kingfish insists he didn’t do any of that to make his guitar howl the blues. “I just practice all the time,” he says, “that’s the only deal I made, and it’s with myself.”   To learn more about KING FISH read here: https://www.christonekingfishingram.com/bio  For our health and wellness collection  https://lamontjackpearley.itworks.com/ https://denisepearley.itworks.com/  To Donate to The African American Folklorist Newspaper Campaign   https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-african-american-folklorist-newspaper#/  To Register for our Black Folk Narrative Crowdfunding Concert https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-african-american-folklorist-newspaper-fundraising-concert-tickets-141364217179

Lea Gilmore, Minister for Racial Justice and Multicultural Engagement,  First Service Music Director, and First Lady of the Church speaks with us about her journey in music, faith, and the advocacy of racial justice.    Lea Gilmore is a blues, gospel, and jazz singing civic activist. a recipient of the Blues Foundation’s W. C. Handy Award: Keeping the Blues Alive and was named as one of 25 “Women Shaping the World” by Essence Magazine. She was featured in the October 2005 Leadership' issue.   Over the past eight years, Gilmore has lent her voice to support the cause of ridding third world countries in Africa of leprosy and TB by headlining Gospel concerts in Europe, sponsored by the Damien Foundation, a Belgium-based nonprofit, appearing before 300,000 in concerts throughout Belgium alone. A former deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland and Program Director for the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers, Gilmore has testified before local, state, and federal commissions on issues ranging from immigration laws to civil rights and liberties of women of color.   Ms. Gilmore is the founder and director of “Umoja (meaning "Unity" in Swahili) Musica,” an international effort promoting non-violence, peace, and human rights, embracing the power and reach of African-American traditional music in union with the traditional music of other cultures. The critically acclaimed first CD, "Umoja Gaelica" featured award-winning African American musicians and traditional musicians from Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England, singing songs of freedom and hope. The project will be reprised and recorded in 2020 in Scotland, with a focus on youth participation.  Lea also hosts MUSIC MONDAY @ GOVANS!   For more information contact lea@govanspres.org  https://www.aclu.org/lea-gilmore https://leagilmore.net/about  The African American Folklorist Newspaper is still accepting Donations  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-african-american-folklorist-newspaper#/