Speaker Sessions: Dom Flemons on Lesley Riddle

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Dom Flemons received an Honorary Doctorate from Northern Arizona University, and he’s a GRAMMY Award Winner with four GRAMMY nominations, Two-Time EMMY Nominee, International Acoustic Music Award Grand Prize Winner, and was a United States Artists Fellow. Dom is a musician based in the Chicago area, and he is famously known as “The American Songster” since his repertoire covers over 100 years of American roots music, including country, folk, bluegrass, Americana, and the blues. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, historian, actor, narrator, host, slam poet, record collector, podcaster, and the creator, host, and producer of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville. He is considered an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife, and rhythm bones. He is the co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the founder of American Songster Productions. He is currently serving on  the Board of Directors at the Steve Martin Banjo Prize, Folk Alliance International, and Music Maker Relief Foundation, and was elected as a Governor on the Board of Directors for the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Recording Academy.