23 February 2008

The American Celebration of Black History Month Brings the Roots of American Blues to Siauliai and Vilnius

Media events:

The audio-visual presentation The Land Where Blues Began will take place:

• - on Thursday, February 14, at 14:00 h at the American Corner of the Siauliai P. Viskinskis Public Library (Ausros al. 62, Siauliai)
• - on Friday, February 15, at 12:00 h at the Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy, Congress Palace, Chamber hall, (Tilto 16, Vilnius)

Journalists and photographers are kindly invited to participate.

Please register ahead of time by cell 8 699 32961.

The U.S. Embassy in Vilnius is pleased to present The Land Where Blues Began, an audio-visual seminar about American blues music and Afro-American folklore. As part of the Black History Month American folklorists Ms. Anna Lomax Wood and Mr. Todd Harvey will be visiting Lithuania on February 14 and 15.

The American speakers will explore the contribution of African Americans to American and world music through the work of folklorists Alan and John Lomax - pioneers in collecting, studying, and disseminating black folk songs, the roots of the blues. The combined corpus of collected recordings is now housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.