Summer 2012, Music Maker had four great interns helping with the daily operations in the office. Jeremy Johnston, a rising Junior at Hampshire College, is a Film and Video major and worked primarily on the audio archive at the Music Maker office. Michael Capodiferro, also a rising Junior at Hampshire College, is studying Dramatic Writing, […]

L.C. Ulmer is a blues player who hails from Jones County, Mississippi. He was born in 1928 in Stringer, and has played guitar since he was nine years old. This isn’t surprising when you consider how much music was happening in his household. Nearly everyone in his family played some sort of instrument, and considering […]

Two filmmakers arrived at MM’s offices last Wednesday to document Pura Fé, Dom Flemons and Tim Duffy. The office was transformed into a film studio for much of the day as artists took turns being interviewed in front of the camera, then running through the pouring rain to the Music Maker studio next door to […]

When he wasn’t out fishing, John Dee Holeman certainly has had a busy summer. In addition to being featured in an ad campaign for Martin Guitars, in May John Dee performed at the Apollo for The Jazz Foundation of America’s annual “A Great Night in Harlem” gala concert to benefit the Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund. […]

All of us here at Music Maker hope you had a great 4th of July! This is a great time for us to remember and give thanks for everyone who has served or is serving to protect our country. Music Maker artist Eddie Tigner enlisted in the military as a young man, and that experience […]