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Jennie Lee is a fine artist based in Manhattan. She currently works at the clothing label Libertine.
Fife or Flight
This week on my favourite NPR podcast,Hearing Voices,I listened to sound bites from the annual Otha Turner Birthday Party they have down in Nashville,Tennessee.
Before passing away in 2003 at the age of 94,Otha was possibly the oldest living man playing the fife.
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He led The Rising Star Fife and Drums Corps which included his daughter,grandchildren and nephew.
They would hang out and teach others how to make their own fifes from rivercane and play them.
My ears love the sound of the echo-y snare overlapped by the sweet whistles.
Here is incredible footage from Martin Scorsese's documentary about the Blues.
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