M·CAM Participates In The Great American Music Project Launch

Date:  Sun, 2014-06-29

ALEXANDRIA, VA – On Saturday, June 29th, M·CAM participated in the Great American Music Project (GRAMP) launch event. Cody Brooks was a featured music performer with Gabriel Kelley, Victoria Ghost and Tim O’Brien. The GRAMP is a platform initiated by Chris Bickford and Christian Nagle to showcase the best in American roots music, from Blues and Bluegrass to Southern Soul and more. Dr. David Martin of M·CAM was recognized for his involvement in organizing this initiative.

GRAMP Background:

“Give us your tired, your poor, your battered fiddles and secondhand trombones, your Old World instruments yearning to be reinvented, and we will make music the likes of which the world has never known. From Ragtime to Rock and Roll, from Bluegrass to Blue-eyed Soul, from Rhythm and Blues to Cajun and Tejano, no country has ever spawned such a dizzying variety of musical forms as has the United States. Born out of adversity, bred on ingenuity and cultural collision, fueled by rapid technological innovation and tumultuous social change, American Music* has inspired envy and emulation the world over since the dawn of the twentieth century. More than our cuisine, more than our art, more than our fashion or our architecture, it is our music that most defines our culture; and our musical heritage, rooted in the geography of swamps, deltas, hollers, deserts, rivers, beaches, and great iron cities, is perhaps our greatest collective treasure: an auditory highway that can lead any who are up for the journey deep into the fertile and sometimes fetid soul of the American imagination.”

Follow GRAMP: HERE