Having the moniker “The American Songster” sets a pretty high bar, but D.C.-based Dom Flemons has plenty of bona fides to prove it, including a Grammy, two Emmys and his status as 2020 United States Artist Fellow. This Friday, Flemons brings his banjo and harmonica, along with a repertoire of 100-plus years of early American Popular Music, to Stanford’s Bing Studio. There, he’ll perform “Black Cowboys,” a collection of rarely heard tales about the roles Black Americans played in settling the Western U.S. after the Civil War (a theme also present in Jordan Peele’s upcoming film).
Fri, 8pm, $30
Bing Studio, Stanford
