Bringing Back the Funk: Chitlin Circuit 2020

For the past five years, Choci Gray has hosted the Chitlin Circuit: an annual community event in Kinston that features stellar performances by some of eastern North Carolina’s most celebrated Black musicians. A year ago in February, three North Carolina Heritage Award recipients performed a set together at the Chitlin Circuit, Volume 5: Maceo Parker, Dick Knight, and Bill Myers. It was a full-circle moment for Gray, who had fallen in love with the music those artists make when she was a child.
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Credits:
Videographers: Matt Zeher, Laura Casteel
Audio: Matt Zeher
Editing: Laura Casteel
Producers: Samuel Gerweck, Sandra Davidson
Photography: Sandra Davidson

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When you see performers and people of color like this, it reminds me of where I come from in New Orleans, La... On a Sunday morning down in the French Market, you see, hear, and feel musicians play like this all the time... Much love to you...🙏🏾

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Maceo Parker speaks of New Orleans music often. I believe what you feel is the New Orleans pouring out of his soul. He is in his home town Kinston on The Front Porch

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We Love you Maceo Parker