The American Songster: Dr. Dom Flemons

Dr. Dom Flemons is a Chicago-based musician whose repertoire covers 100+ years of American Roots music. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, actor, slam poet, record collector, and the host and producer of American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville. He is considered an expert on banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife, and rhythm bones.

Flemons will perform music from his Grammy-nominated album Traveling Wildfire, and a tribute to the music of Herb Jeffries, The Sensational Singing Cowboy from Detroit, who performed in all-Black musical westerns in the 1930s. Free with admission. 

After the concert there will be a free screening of Jeffries’ 1939 classic, Bronze Buckaroo.  

This program is part of a companion series of film and music events presented in celebration of Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971, on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts Feb. 4–June 23, 2024. Regeneration is organized by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.