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John Awarded The 2022-2023 Rome Prize

by John Davis on September 18, 2022November 24, 2022

Click here to read Sandra Guzman’s article about John and The Rome Prize on page 45 of the Summer, 2022, issue of The Exeter Bulletin.

The Virginia Gazette: “For 15 years, a Piano Sat in a Lightfoot Store. It Was Made for a Well-Known Ragtime Musician and Now Sits in a Museum”

by John Davis on November 7, 2021November 7, 2021

Click here to read about John and the recently-found piano of Blind Boone

The New York Times: He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom

by John Davis on March 23, 2021March 24, 2021

Click here to read March 7, 2021 article about Blind Tom in The New York Times by Chief Classical Music Critic, Anthony Tommasini, featuring interview of John and John’s Blind Tom CD.

The New York Times: Lifting the Cone of Silence From Black Composers

by John Davis on March 23, 2021March 24, 2021

Click here to read July 3, 2020 article in The New York Times, by jazz musician, George Lewis, and featuring John’s Blind Tom CD and John’s performance of Blind Tom’s “The Battle of Manassas.”

John Celebrates Black Patti on Concert, June 9, 2018

by John Davis on June 24, 2018March 23, 2021

Click here to read about John’s concert and the three-day festival celebrating Sissieretta Jones in The Providence Journal.

Click here to read the August, 2018, “Overlooked No More” obituary about Sissieretta Jones in The New York Times.

John on WNPR’s Morning Edition

by John Davis on June 28, 2017November 9, 2018

Click here to read and listen to interview of John by Diane Orson, host of WNPR’s Morning Edition.

Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues

by John Davis on June 13, 2017July 19, 2019

Exhibition of Early Printed Musical African Americana, Conceived and Curated by John in the Spring of 2017 at The John Hay Library, Brown University

Click here to read article on the Brown University website about Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues

Click here to read article in East Side Monthly about Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues

The Village Voice: Behold the Fancy Piano at the Met That Connects Parlor Music and Pop

by John Davis on June 1, 2016July 19, 2019

Schastey Piano Case Detail (photo courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Schastey Piano Case Detail (photo courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art)

[John Davis] resurrected music that would otherwise be lost forever

Click here to read the preview article in “The Village Voice” to John’s solo recital at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

Lead Belly Fest: John at Carnegie Hall

by John Davis on February 4, 2016November 9, 2018

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Click here for more info about John and the “Lead Belly Fest” at Carnegie Hall

 

John on NPR’s On Point, with Tom Ashbrook

by John Davis on February 18, 2016November 9, 2018

 

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