Let’s celebrate a popular topic: food!  Shall we? It’s a century of America’s music covering potatoes, pork, beans, cornbread, and biscuits…as well as some of your favorite desserts. And we’ll also celebrate the barbecue, another favorite immigrant tradition that had, by the 19th century, become a place of communal congregation in the American South.

We’ll be singing for our supper with Helen Humes, struttin’ with some barbecue with Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, stoppin’ in at the donut shop with Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, stomping the blues with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, and sitting down to cake that Eileen Barton baked.