Corey Harris

Singer, songwriter, and bluesman Corey Harris began as a New Orleans street musician, moved to Cameroon, and has traveled the world performing, recording, and touring with notable artists including BB King, Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy, R.L.Burnside, Ali Farka Touré, Dave Matthews Band, Tracy Chapman, Wilco, and more. Drawing from old songs of the blues tradition while also creating an original vision of the blues by adding influences from reggae, soul, rock and West African music In 2007 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, aka “genius award” — from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which described him as an artist who “forges an adventurous path marked by deliberate eclecticism.”