Jazz For the Soul: Remembering Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) 100 Years After her Birth

The music poured from the piano. On a large platform inside the oval mahogany bar at New York’s Hickory House, an authoritative African American woman in early middle age sat at the piano, eyes mostly closed, her face registering every nuance in the music she was creating.
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Elizabeth Mitchell, singer, songwriter, and music educator, was born in New York City in 1968. She began her music career at the age of five when she started studying music theory and piano. Click here to read more.

• NPR’s “All Things Considered”
• Time Out Chicago
• “WBEZ’s Hit or Quit it” Podcast
• Pied Piper Radio

Elizabeth Mitchell’s latest album, Sunny Day, wins three awards.

• Archive Spotlight — Irwin Silber, paying tribute to a friend and partner
• Tools for Teaching — Lesson Plan: “Oh, John the Rabbit”
• Video Spotlight — Venezuelan group Maestros del Joropo Oriental discuss their influences

• Smithsonian Folkways director Daniel Sheehy wins the Américo Paredes Prize from the American Folklore Society.
• Join Elizabeth Mitchell and her daughter, Storey, as they demonstrate how to build your own hula hoop!
• The New York Times’ Sunday October 17th crossword clue to 64 Down was “Folk Singer Jenkins,” four letters.