“Walt Whitman got me through the pandemic,” Natalie Merchant says, in a new interview on arts programming, music, and retrospection.
In the early nineteen-eighties, an unusual band emerged out of Jamestown, New York. They called themselves 10,000 Maniacs, and played a brand of folk-pop. Their lead singer and songwriter, Natalie Merchant, was a sixteen-year-old who wrote lyrics about Jack Kerouac’s mother, struggling parents in the Depression, and imperialism in Africa. Critics were eager to categorize her, but found it difficult to do so.
It’s a six-year term, and we promote the work of the institution. The Folklife Center is involved with community arts organizations nationwide, keeping traditional arts alive—storytelling, dance, crafts, and music. The center’s archive conserves millions of items through theMemorial Quilt archive, the Veterans History Project, StoryCorps, and so on. I’d known it as the home of the ethnographic field recordings of John and Alan Lomax, who were father and son.
When I sit down at the piano, I don’t set out to write in a particular style of music. I’m usually just searching for patterns—melodic, chordal, rhythmic—that reflect whatever mood I’m in. There’s a massive song bank in my brain. It’s a jumble of traditional folk music—American, Irish, Scottish, and British—as well as jazz standards, vintage musicals, and rhythm and blues. It’s crowded in there.
It seems that when it comes to budget cuts in public schools, the first programs to go are always the arts, or any funding for libraries.
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