Kansas Tour
2008
The Kansas Humanities Council is sponsoring a special Kansas tour
of the Smithsonian Institution exhibition, New Harmonies:
Celebrating American Roots Music.
New Harmonies explores the music that is America's Soundtrack:
roots music. The Blues, country, gospel, bluegrass, zydeco, tejano,
and klezmer are just some of the many unique American musical styles
featured in the exhibit.
Experience the history of roots music beginning with early Native
American music through the 1960s folk revival. Artifacts, photographs,
and music samples from the Smithsonian Institution's collections
guide you on your musical journey. See photographs of musicians
and learn about their contributions to roots music. Try your hand
at playing spoons or pluck a diddley bow. Stop at a listening station
to hear the music of Country legend Jimmie Rodgers, Gospel great
Mahalia Jackson, Tejano artist Narcisco Martinez, or "Chicago's
Polka King," Li'l Wally Jagiello.
Click here for a photo gallery
of the New Harmonies exhibit.
Click here to download the lyrics
to "This Exhibit is Your Exhibit," a song about the New
Harmonies Kansas Tour.
Click here
to access the New Harmonies iMix on iTunes, featuring roots
music from the exhibit. (To access the iMix you must have iTunes
loaded on your computer. A free download of iTunes is available
from Apple. To download a free version of iTunes visit: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/)
Kansas Arts Commission Supports Kansas Sounds
A Kansas Arts Commission Arts-in-Communities mini-grant
will support the
hands-on resource trunk to accompany the New Harmonies: Celebrating
American Roots Music traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition.
The resource trunk includes roots music instruments found in Kansas
plus a resource manual featuring stories of historic and contemporary
immigrants and the music that came with them.
New Harmonies: Celebrating American
Roots Music
Tour Schedule
Winfield
March 14 - May 4, 2008
Winfield Public Library
605 College
620/221-4470
Winfield's program schedule
Photos from New Harmonies
in Winfield
Russell
May 9 - June 22, 2008
Deines Cultural Center
820 North Main
785/483-3742
Deines Cultural Center program
schedule
Photos from New Harmonies
in Russell
Lawrence
June 27 - August 10, 2008
Watkins Community
Museum of History
1047 Massachusetts
785/841-4109
Lawrence program schedule
Photos from New Harmonies in Lawrence
Independence
August 15 - September 28, 2008
Independence
Historical Museum
8th and Myrtle Streets
620/331-3515
Independence program schedule
Photos from New Harmonies
in Independence
McPherson
October 3 - November 9, 2008
McPherson
Museum
1130 East Euclid
620/241-8464
McPherson program
schedule
Photos from New Harmonies
in McPherson
Atchison
November 14, 2008 - January 4, 2009
Atchison
County Historical Society
200 S. 10th Street, Santa Fe Depot
913/367-6238
Atchison
program schedule
Promotional support provided by Kansas Travel and
Tourism
This program is presented in part by
the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment
for the Arts, a federal agency, which believes that a great nation
deserves great art.
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