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Celebrating local Grammy winners

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Tennessee State University’s Aristocrat of Bands made history on Sunday by becoming the first college marching band to win, not one, but two Grammys.

AOB won the Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album for their album “The Urban Hymnal” and the Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for their collaboration with J. Ivy on “The Poet Who Sat by the Door.”

In this episode, we check in with Nashville Public Radio’s Jewly Hight about other local winners and what the awards mean for the Nashville music industry.

In honor of AOB’s big wins, we’ll revisit an earlier interview with Larry Jenkins, TSU’s assistant director of bands, and look at marching bands in Nashville.

Guests:

  • Jewly Hight, WNXP editorial director

  • Larry Jenkins, assistant director of bands at Tennessee State University

  • AyyWillé, artist, educator, and saxophonist

  • Eleni Miller, band director at John Overton High School

  • Jamen Jackson, student musician at John Overton High School

  • Johnny Croft, band director at Cane Ridge High School

    • ...more
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