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Dom Flemons [cancelled]

Dom is known as The American Songster with his repertoire of music covering over 100 years of American folklore, ballads, and tunes. He is a music scholar, historian, record collector and a multi-instrumentalist. He plays banjo, fife, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, and rhythm bones. In 2018, Flemons released the Grammy nominated solo album Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys on Smithsonian Folkways part of the African American Legacy Recordings series, co-produced with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. In 2005 Dom co-founded the Carolina Chocolate Drops who won a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album in 2010 and were nominated for Best Folk Album in 2012. While with the band he performed at the Laurel Theater. He left the group to pursue his solo career in 2014. Dom's debut appearance on the Grand Ole Opry was in 2018.