This program is a rebroadcast of a 2005 interview by Anne Kimzey with musicians Cast King and Matt Downer from Sand Mountain. Guitarist and songwriter Cast King and his former band The Country Drifters recorded with Sun Records of Memphis in the 1950s. Matt Downer, a young musician, has been working with Mr. King for a few years to learn his guitar style and to record his music and life history. During the program Mr. King performs three of the approximately 500 songs he has written in his lifetime. Cast King died in 2007.
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This week Anne Kimzey of the Alabama State Council on the Arts interviews Donna Russell, director of the Alabama Alliance for Arts Education. During the program Russell discusses the Alliance's work as an advocate for arts in the schools, training opportunities for teachers and communities, and fruitful partnerships both nationally with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and statewide with the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
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This program is a rebroadcast of a 2003 interview with Enoch and Margie Sullivan in memory of Enoch Sullivan, who recently passed on Feb 23rd 2011 in Mobile. The Sullivan Family of St. Stephens, Alabama has been stalwart in the presentation of Bluegrass Gospel music throughout the world. Among their many awards are the Alabama State Council on the Arts’ Folk Heritage Fellowship and the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award.
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