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May Memorial Unitarian Society 3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
Dr. Dom Flemons, "The American Songster," received an Honorary Doctorate from Northern Arizona University, and is a Grammy Award Winner with four Grammy nominations, two-time Emmy Nominee, International Acoustic Music Award Grand Prize Winner, and was a United States Artists Fellow. Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, historian, actor, narrator, host, slam poet, record collector, podcaster, and the creator, host, and producer of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville. Flemons is an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife, and rhythm bones. He is co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the founder of American Songster Productions. His repertoire covers over 100 years of American roots music, including country, folk, bluegrass, Americana, and the blues.
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