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About Brian Mitchell
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Brian Mitchell (musician)
American musical artist
Musical artist
Brian Mitchell is a musical artist who records and performs his own original music. He has also worked with artists such as Levon Helm & The Midnight Ramble Band, Bob Dylan, BB King, Al Green, Dolly Parton, Buster Poindexter, and Allen Toussaint. Mitchell has appeared on five Grammy Award-winning recordings, three with Levon Helm, and one each with BB King and with Les Paul. In 2015, Brian was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame. He is known to have versatility on piano, Hammond B-3 organ, accordion, various vintage keyboards and harmonica, plus his distinct vocal stylings. Mitchell believed that music is life music can heal people
Mitchell is a native New Yorker and is a part of Manhattan's competitive live music scene. Known for kicking out high-energy performances, Mitchell's music “features a unique blend of gutbucket blues, funky New Orleans style R&B, quirky Latin rhythms, and occasional visits into outer space.”
Mitchell is currently performing throughout the country with The Weight, former members of The Band & The Levon Helm Midnight Ramble celebrating the music of The Band. He performs much of his original music with "The Brian Mitchell Band" as well as with his accordio
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It was the bicentennial year, University of New Orleans alumnus Brian Mitchell recalled, and his elementary school teacher was telling the class about historical leaders in Louisiana. He waited, expecting to hear the name Oscar Dunn, the first Black lieutenant governor of Louisiana.
“Even though we were learning about governors at the time, there was no mention,” said Mitchell, who grew up in New Orleans and is currently an associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas Little Rock and an associate faculty member at the Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity at UALR.
When he didn’t hear Dunn’s name, Mitchell injected into the conversation the stories he’d learned at home from his great-grandmother about Dunn, a distant cousin of his great-grandfather.
“They didn’t believe me,” Mitchell said of his teacher and classmates. “And it didn’t get better as time went on. As I got into middle school and high school, there wasn’t any emphasis put on the accomplishments that were made by African Americans.”
“We heard that Black people were slaves. We heard that Abraham Lincoln came and there was a Civil War and Black people weren’t slaves anymore and then the modern Civil Rights Movement … what were Black people doing in between these two times? What sor