CAMILLEGAVIN: Dove back home from D.C. tour
Nat Dove is home again after spending the earlier part of summer on a 10-day gig in Washington, D.C., where he participated in the Smithsonian Institution's 45th annual Folklife Festival, held on the National Mall in front of the Capitol from June 30 to July 11.
Considering what must have been high temperatures and humidity, I asked the 71-year-old musician, composer and lecturer what it was like performing in the outdoor setting.
"I played every day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and we had 250,000 people on the Fourth of July," he told me. "It was grueling, but I was proud to do it because it reminded me of my time at the Apollo in New York."
Dove was referring to a job he had at the famed theater in Harlem where, in 1967, he performed with blues guitarist T-Bone Walker and other well-known musicians of the time.
"At the Apollo, we played for 20 minutes at a time, five times a day, five days a week," he said. Then chuckling at the recollection, he added, "We used to call it the workhouse because when we got through, we were so tired we weren't good for anything."
The festival in Washington, which was co-sponsored by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, explored many musical traditions. Dove's portion of the program was devoted to the history and development of rhythm and blues. Also appearing in the segment were the Funk Brothers, who were the studio band for Motown Records, and Shirley Jones of The Jones Girls, a trio that once served as backup singers for Lou Rawls, Teddy Pendergrass and Aretha Franklin, among others.
"I represented the blues genre," Dove said. "And I was on a panel discussion on the history of blues, all the way back to Louisiana and Texas."
Yet it appears the Texas native doesn't dwell on the past -- at the festival he also performed "Has the World Gone Mad?," a song he wrote only recently.
"It's about ecological issues," he said, "and asks the question âIf we kill everything around us what's going to happen to us?
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