Live From New Orleans The Jazz Foundation of America Presents: RL BOYCE
April 19, 2023 - April 26, 2023
Jazz Museum | 02:00pm - 03:00pm | Free - Weekly
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Jazz Foundation of America presents live weekly concerts free to the public from the New Orleans Jazz Museum. You can see them every Wednesday in person or on our Facebook and Youtube pages. You are now able to attend these performances at the Jazz Museum in New Orleans. These series are also carried on Off Beat Magazine and Louisiana Music Factory Facebook pages. For this week's performance the Jazz Foundation of America is proud to present:
April 19th, 2023:
RL BOYCE
R.L. Boyce a Hill Country Blues living legend has one foot rooted deeply in the past and the other reaching towards the future of American Blues music. An originator of his craft RL started out playing drums with his Uncle Otha Turner’s traditional fe and drum group. RL joined Otha Turner’s Rising Stars Fife & Drum Band at the age of 15. He was an active member of Otha’s band for 30 years. In the late 1980s RL sat down behind a drum kit for Jessie Mae Hemphill. Did some recording and toured with Jessie Mae Hemphill and Otha before embracing the guitar on a dare from Luther Dickinson and developing his own STYLE. RL’s style Hill Country BOOGIE is a recipe of hypnotic repetitive guitar sedate and sparse. Free form improvisational ingredients for cooking up a marvelous Mississippi endless boogie. Perfect sounds for sipping moonshine and watching the dragon y y by. RL’s country blues roots are signature to his modern blues style. A remarkable man who continues to mystify most with his subtle variations of the blues scale never playing his songs the same way twice. Thats his STYLE. RL has performed at his own infamous yard parties to international sold out stages. RL Boyce has lived the life of the Big Blues Mane. He started playing drums at family picnics which lead him to a GRAMMY nomination for Best New Traditional Blues album for his release Roll & Tumble 2018. RL was brought to the Czech Republic, and Poland as part of the North Mississippi Project for the Blues Alive Concerts. Boyce has played the Telliride Blues & Brews Festival, Co., Blues Bender, Las Vegas NV, Blues Rules Festival Lucerne Switzerland, 2018. RL Boyce appeared live on BBC Two Later with Jools Holland, and performed at The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville TN in support of Jason Isabell, 2019. RL Boyce has been awarded numerous fellowships from Mississippi Arts Commission, is a member of the MAC Artists Roster. RL Boyce is a N.E.A National Heritage Fellow for Folk and Traditional Arts 2023. RL is one of nine American artists chosen each year since 1982 for this prestigious honor. https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/rl-boyce
Jazz Foundation of America presents live weekly concerts free to the public from the New Orleans Jazz Museum. You can see them every Wednesday in person or on our Facebook and Youtube pages. You are now able to attend these performances at the Jazz Museum in New Orleans. These series are also carried on Off Beat Magazine and Louisiana Music Factory Facebook pages. For this week's performance the Jazz Foundation of America is proud to present:
April 19th, 2023:
RL BOYCE
R.L. Boyce a Hill Country Blues living legend has one foot rooted deeply in the past and the other reaching towards the future of American Blues music. An originator of his craft RL started out playing drums with his Uncle Otha Turner’s traditional fe and drum group. RL joined Otha Turner’s Rising Stars Fife & Drum Band at the age of 15. He was an active member of Otha’s band for 30 years. In the late 1980s RL sat down behind a drum kit for Jessie Mae Hemphill. Did some recording and toured with Jessie Mae Hemphill and Otha before embracing the guitar on a dare from Luther Dickinson and developing his own STYLE. RL’s style Hill Country BOOGIE is a recipe of hypnotic repetitive guitar sedate and sparse. Free form improvisational ingredients for cooking up a marvelous Mississippi endless boogie. Perfect sounds for sipping moonshine and watching the dragon y y by. RL’s country blues roots are signature to his modern blues style. A remarkable man who continues to mystify most with his subtle variations of the blues scale never playing his songs the same way twice. Thats his STYLE. RL has performed at his own infamous yard parties to international sold out stages. RL Boyce has lived the life of the Big Blues Mane. He started playing drums at family picnics which lead him to a GRAMMY nomination for Best New Traditional Blues album for his release Roll & Tumble 2018. RL was brought to the Czech Republic, and Poland as part of the North Mississippi Project for the Blues Alive Concerts. Boyce has played the Telliride Blues & Brews Festival, Co., Blues Bender, Las Vegas NV, Blues Rules Festival Lucerne Switzerland, 2018. RL Boyce appeared live on BBC Two Later with Jools Holland, and performed at The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville TN in support of Jason Isabell, 2019. RL Boyce has been awarded numerous fellowships from Mississippi Arts Commission, is a member of the MAC Artists Roster. RL Boyce is a N.E.A National Heritage Fellow for Folk and Traditional Arts 2023. RL is one of nine American artists chosen each year since 1982 for this prestigious honor. https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/rl-boyce
