National Heritage Fellowship
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The National Heritage Fellowship is a lifetime honor presented to master folk and traditional artists by the National Endowment for the Arts. Similar to Japan's "Living Treasure" award, the Fellowship is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. It is a one-time only award and fellows must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States.
The program began in 1982. Each year, fellowships are presented to between ten and fifteen artists or groups at a White House ceremony in Washington, D.C.
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[edit] Winners
Awardees have included Native American basket weavers, African American blues musicians, traditional fiddlers, Mexican American accordionists, and all manner of traditional artisans and performers of numerous ethnic backgrounds.
National Heritage Fellowship winners include:
- Michael Flatley, Irish American step dancer
- Shirley Caesar, gospel singer
- Albertina Walker, gospel singer
- Charles Brown, African American blues singer and pianist
- Vi Hilbert
[edit] 1982
- Dewey Balfa, Cajun fiddler
[edit] 1987
[edit] 1988
- Albert "Sunnyland Slim" Luandrew, blues pianist.
[edit] 1990
- Kevin Locke Lakota Flute Player/Singer/Dancer/Storyteller Mobridge, SD
[edit] 1997
- Ali Akbar Khan, North Indian classical sarod player
- Phong Nguyen (Nguyễn Thuyết Phong), Vietnamese musician and ethnomusicologist
[edit] 1999
- Zakir Hussain, tabla player
[edit] 2002
- Flory Jagoda, Jewish-American singer, songwriter, and guitarist
- Losang Samten, Tibetan monk and creator of sandpaintings
[edit] 2005
- Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Yiddish singer, songwriter, and poet
[edit] 2006
- Esther Martinez, Tewa linguist and storyteller
[edit] External links
- National Heritage Fellowships page from National Endowment for the Arts site
- List of all National Heritage Fellowship winners
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