Dom Flemons is known as “The American Songster®" since his repertoire covers over one hundred years of American roots music. Flemons is a folk musician, black country artist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, historian, actor, slam poet, record collector, curator, podcaster, cultural commentator, influencer, and the creator, host, and producer of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville, TN. He is the Co-Founder and original member of the groundbreaking Carolina Chocolate Drops, the first ever black string band to win a GRAMMY Award. Over the past 25 years, he has received major awards, gained world-wide media recognition and has become one of the most influential and highly decorated voices in American roots music. “Dom Flemons is one of the most accomplished American Folk Artists… few have pumped as much lifeblood into tradition as he has.” - MOJO Magazine

His new album, Making American Music, arrives January 22, 2027 and provides the foundation for this new live program. The release campaign begins September 22 with “Shultz’s Dream,” inspired by influential Black Kentucky musician Arnold Shultz, followed by “Piedmont Picker’s Choice” on November 17 and “Island” on January 7, with “Night and Day” serving as the album’s focus track on release day.

Making American Music offers something particularly special: a concert experience that is equally entertaining, musically exceptional and culturally rich. Through performance and storytelling, Dom connects the music audiences hear today to the musicians, instruments, communities and traditions that helped create it—while demonstrating that American roots music is not a relic of the past, but a living tradition that continues to evolve.