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Buku Music + Art Project @TheBukuProject thrills music fans in New Orleans #NOLA http://nola.tw/KL
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by blueorleansradio · Published 06/03/2012 · Last modified 06/05/2012
by blueorleansradio · Published 06/03/2012 · Last modified 06/05/2012
by blueorleansradio · Published 06/05/2012
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| 1982 - Camille Lucie Nickerson, a pianist, composer, music educator, music historian and a native of New Orleans, Louisiana passed away on this day at the age of 93. Her father was a renowned music teacher and violinist who's students included Jelly Roll Morton, Emma Barrett, Henry Kimball, and Manuel Manetta. she taught with her father from 1916 until 1926 at the Nickerson School of Music and founded the B-Sharp Music Club, which became the New Orleans branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians in February 1917. In 1930, she published many Creole songs, and wrote a masters thesis: Africo-Creole Music in Louisiana (masters thesis, Oberlin, 1932). In 1932, she received a Master of Music degree from Oberlin. She began to perform Creole songs as “The Louisiana Lady,” in order to educate the public about Creole songs and to keep them alive. |