Originally from Phoenix and now based in Chicago, Flemons is a widely celebrated songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor, slam poet, radio host and music historian. Throughout his esteemed career, he has received a Grammy Award, been nominated for two Emmy Awards, received an honorary doctorate from Northern Arizona University, won the 2020 U.S. Artists Fellowship Award for the Traditional Arts, served on the Board of Directors for the Steve Martin Banjo Prize, Folk Alliance International and the Music Maker Relief Foundation, and was elected as a Governor on the Board of Directors for the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Recording Academy.
A prolific member of the music community, Flemons has released five solo records to date, including 2018’s Grammy-nominated Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys, of which No Depression praised, “He lives and breathes his art. This is an audible extension of the heart and soul and wonders within, a desire to capture the life beat of the original arrangement and melodies of songs,” while PopMatters declared, “a remarkably enlightening presentation of a slice of culture all but whitewashed from our common knowledge.” Flemons also released four albums as part of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Grammy Award-winning group he created with Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson in 2005. An avid collaborator, Flemons has worked with a wide variety of artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Tyler Childers, Steve Cropper, Fantastic Negrito, Old Crow Medicine Show, Billy Strings, Jerry Douglas, Valerie June, Vince Gill, Allison Russell, Taj Mahal and many more.
TRAVELING WILDFIRE TRACK LIST
1. Slow Dance With You
2. Dark Beauty
3. If You Truly Love Me
4. Traveling Wildfire
5. It’s Cold Inside
6. We Are Almost Down To The Shore
7. Nobody Wrote It Down
8. Saddle It Around
9. Big Money Blues
10. Old Desert Road
11. Rabbit Foot Rag
12. Tough Luck
13. Song To JCB
14. Guess I’m Doing Fine (feat. Sam Bush)
15. Songster Revival (feat. James Fearnley)
DOM FLEMONS CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
January 20—Chicago, IL—Logan Art Center – University of Chicago
February 3—Kansas City, MO—Folk Alliance International Conference
February 10-17—Miami, FL—Cayamo Cruise
March 3—Saratoga Springs, NY—Caffe Lena
March 9—Keene, NH—Nova Arts
March 11—Peekskill, NY—Professor Louie’s Century of the Blues Concert
March 23—Flagstaff, AZ—Coconino Center for the Arts
March 24—Phoenix, AZ—Musical Instrument Museum
April 1—Davis, CA—Mondavi Center
April 19—Berkeley, CA—Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse*
April 22—West Hollywood, CA—Troubadour*
April 28—Wilkesboro, NC—MerleFest 2023
April 29—Mars Hill, NC—Owen Theatre at Mars Hill University
May 16—New York, NY—Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater
May 18—Cambridge, MA—Club Passim
May 20—Washington, DC—President Lincoln’s Cottage
May 21—Washington, DC—President Lincoln’s Cottage
June 3—Brevard, NC—North Carolina Guitar Celebration
June 17—St. Augustine, FL—The Waterworks Building
June 23—Columbia, SC—Columbia Museum of Art
*with Dustbowl Revival