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"St. James Infirmary Blues"

Silk Road Ensemble + Rhiannon Giddens · TED

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Singer Rhiannon Giddens joins international music collective Silk Road Ensemble to perform "St. James Infirmary Blues," spiking the American folk song that Louis Armstrong popularized in the 1920s with Romani influence and mischievous energy.

The talk

  1. "St. James Infirmary Blues" 9 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2016
Speaker
Silk Road Ensemble + Rhiannon Giddens
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Art, architecture and design, Music
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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