Red Hoop Talk EP 82: Carly Harvey, DC’s Queen of the Blues
Episode 82 features our new host, Jennifer Robin, with special guest Carly Harvey from Washington, DC.
Carly Harvey is an Eastern Band Tsalagi and Tuscarora descendant who combines Blues, Jazz, Soul, and Indigenous American styles to produce a unique sound. She is the originator of the “Native Scat”—an improvisational fusion of a traditional Jazz scat with Native vocables.
It is her belief that Blues not only comes from the African American experience but is also directly influenced by Indigenous American Minor Pentatonic Melodies and Stomp Dance Songs. She offers master classes to educate people about the music that gives her so much pride in her Afro-Indigenous heritage.
In July 2018, Carly was featured in Big City Blues Magazine as one of the youngest Blues artists to watch. She is also a three-time DC Blues Society Battle of the Bands Winner and was proclaimed Washington DC’s Queen of the Blues in 2016 by Dr. Nick Johnson of WPFW Radio. In 2021, Carly was nominated 7 times and won the WAMMIE award for Best Blues Artist.
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