Name: American Made: Dom Flemons
Start: 2023-07-01T18:00:00
Location: Garth Newel Music Center

Dom Flemons

Garth Newel Music Center Foundation Corp

GRAMMY Award Winner, Two-Time EMMY Nominee, 2020 U.S. Artists Fellow, Honorary Doctorate Dom Flemons, is a roots musician originally from Phoenix, Arizona and currently lives in the Chicago area with his wife Vania Kinard and their daughter. As a country, blues, and folk musician he is famously known as The American Songster® since his repertoire covers over one hundred years of American roots music. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, historian, actor, slam poet, record collector, and WSM radio producer. He is considered an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife and rhythm bones. In the spring of 2022, Flemons made his debut as a creator, host, and producer on Nashville’s country music radio station 650 AM WSM, where he released season three of American Songster Radio Show. He was awarded a degree as a Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater Northern Arizona University and was the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony for the Class of 2022. In 2020, Flemons was also selected for the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship Award for the Traditional Arts category which was generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.