Jack Dappa Blues Radio & TV

Jack Dappa Blues presents The Blues Narrative—the stories of the Blues People and the generations shaped by the Great Migration.

Some of our people left the South. Some stayed. Some traveled back and forth. Wherever we landed, we carried our music, family stories, beliefs, memories, and traditions with us.

Through Blues music, folklore, oral history, family records, field recordings, and conversations with artists, elders, and scholars, we follow what our people carried, what they created, what was taken, and what we are still working to recover.

From spirituals, field hollers, Hoodoo, Black Indigenous memory, land, and labor to migration, sundown towns, the Blues road, prison labor, and the music being made today, these are chapters in one breathing story.

The Blues is more than music. It is Black history you can hear.

Hear the history. Know the people. Carry the story forward.

Presented by the Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation.