Shannon Sanders Discusses “From Where I Stand: The Concert Celebration”

Last year, the Museum and co-producers Rissi Palmer and Shannon Sanders organized a multi-artist concert celebrating the many ways Black Americans have created, contributed to, and been influenced by country music, as documented and shared through the Museum’s multi-faceted initiative, “From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music.”

During the concert, Blanco Brown, Cowboy Troy, Tony Jackson, Hubby Jenkins, Miko Marks, Wendy Moten, Rissi Palmer, Darius Rucker, The War and Treaty, and Barrence Whitfield performed their songs featured on the box set and paid tribute to other artists featured in the collection. Throughout the night, the house band—led by Sanders and featuring Tyler Cain, Rob Cureton, Kery Greene, Olivia Jones, Jon “DJ Smoke” Lucas, MarQo Patton and Lars Thorson—accompanied the artists. The concert concluded with an all-cast performance of the Staple Singers’ rendition of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.”

"From Where I Stand: The Concert Celebration" is featured in the Museum exhibit "American Currents: State of the Music," which offers a broad look at country music over the past year.

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