The anthology performance will honor four historic Black women musicians and Louisiana culture.
In addition to serving as the artistic director and founder of the New Orleans-themed band CHELLE! and Friends and a cappella ensemble CHELLE’S Juke Joint, she has performed and toured with Manhattan Transfer, Wynton Marsalis, Linda Hopkins, Ladysmith Black Mambaza, Al Green and the late Pete Seeger, among others.
Not only will Jacques bring the rich, Creole and Deep Southern culture and traditions of Louisiana and her family — a grandmother born in the 1800s whom she recalls singing to her and her mother, now age 101 and “living with me and right downstairs,” she proudly proclaims — the Delta concert will introduce four remarkable Black women musicians of the past.
Anyone visiting the Hidden Folklorists series on the Library of Congress website can catch an earful of Elzy and Bradford singing “Adam in the Garden Pinnin’ Leaves,” which is also on the Delta program. The two women had been born into slavery in Louisiana and like many African Americans at that time, learned a vast repertoire of spirituals entirely by word-of-mouth.
Bradford and Elzy recorded more than 100 gospel songs with Mclhenny. Jacques admires their strength and determination and how their voices stir up memories of visiting her grandmother, traveling in an old car into the country and smelling the scent of warm biscuits and sweet soil. “Her technique was amazing. Women weren’t supposed to play like that — to stick their toes outside of church. She brought the sound of piano and the blues into Old Dixie Land,” Jacques says.
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