Sunday May 21, 2023

Bridge thousands of years of history in a single online concert! On Sunday, May 21 at 7:30, The Folklore Society of Greater Washington presents singer/songwriters/cultural ambassadors Thea Hopkins and Jessie Lloyd in a program of Indigenous music from North America and Australia that evokes the distant past while addressing the hopes and anxieties of our present day. A member of Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe of Martha’s Vineyard, performer and songwriter Thea Hopkins calls her music “Red Roots Americana.” In addition to Aquinnah Wampanoag, Hopkins ' ancestry includes Nottoway (Iroquois), African American, Irish and Portuguese roots. She has been described as a “standout writer” by The Washington Post. Thea first came to wide public notice when Peter, Paul & Mary recorded her song "Jesus Is on The Wire" in 2004, and then again in 2010 with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Learn more about her at https://www.theahopkins.com/ Jessie Lloyd is an Australia Aboriginal singer, social historian, cultural ambassador and Song-keeper. Jessie guides her audiences on a deep dive into Australia’s history using the songlines of Aboriginal Australia, a body of traditional songs that carries the 60,000-year history of the world’s oldest living culture. Jessie has devoted her musical career to maintaining the intergenerational song traditions of Indigenous music by bringing songlines into modern music and the arts. She is currently based in Brisbane, Australia. To learn more about her work, visit her website, https://jessielloyd.com/. Registration is required to get the concert link. Register at https://www.fsgw.org/concerts. Admission is free, but donations help support our performers. Suggested donation: $20 per listener. (If you feel generous and can afford it, our performers will cheerfully accept a higher amount.)