Interview with Damein Wash, Oxford, Mississippi
- Date
2020-09-25
- Main contributor
Damein Wash
- Summary
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Damein Wash (Oxford, Mississippi) Hailing from Oxford, Mississippi, musician, composer and filmmaker Damein Wash has spent a lifetime pursuing music in the Southern gospel tradition. With the addition of classical training (a BM in Choral Music Education and an MM in Music Theory from the University of Mississippi), he is also well versed in choral, gospel, blues, jazz, rock, soul, and funk. Wash is the front man for the Oxford-based party band the Soul Tones. He is also a member of Three Grand, a trio of performers who perform across the United States and Canada, primarily for large corporate events. Wash’s recordings and original scores have made their way into Hallmark films and the long-time running daytime drama The Young and the Restless. Wash also arranged and conducted Deep South Gospel for the Moonshine Music Co., a Sony subsidiary, which was featured on STARZ’s American Gods and in USA Network’s Queen of the South. Interviewed by Holly Hobbs, 09/25/2020.
- Contributor
Holly Hobbs
- Subjects
Music; United States; Covid-19 Pandemic
- Location
Oxford, Mississippi
- Collection
Musicians in America during the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Unit
Society for Ethnomusicology
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