When I first started talking with ethnomusicologist Bruce Conforth about the possibility of his being on the show, I wasn’t exactly sure what we’d be talking about. He didn’t seem terribly enthusiastic about the prospect of discussing his time at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, where he was the founding curator, […]
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Talking about the blues with Bruce Conforth, discovering found film with Frank Uhle, and allowing Jim Cherewick just be himself …on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack
I don’t know how we do it, but, for a little AM radio show in Ypsilanti, we continue to book incredible shows. Saturday evening, starting at 6:00, we’ll be joined in the studio by musicologist Bruce Conforth. Perhaps best known as the founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Dr. […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized Also tagged 16mm film, Askwith Media Library, Blues Heritage Foundation, Bruce Conforth, Festival of Found Films from the Vault, Film, film festivals, found film, Frank Uhle, instructional films, Jim Cherewick, My Snowman's Burning Down, Robert Johnson, Robert Johnson Blues Foundation, roots music, the blues 4 Comments