Donal Leace: Muisc form The Show
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- In 1969 Donal Leace (1939-2020) was a popular Washington, DC, singer who performed as a regular on an early PBS program for young people called The Show. Presented here are sixteen songs from that series. Leace often performed at Washington, DC’s The Cellar Door where he also worked and lived.
Leace appeared and recorded with a numbers of artists including Odetta, Muddy Waters Nancy Wilson and Roberta Flack. He was considered a master interpreter of contemporary American songwriting, but he also made his mark was as an educator teaching theater arts at the Duke Ellington School in D.C. Leace was recognized as both a Fulbright and a U.S. Presidential Scholar.
I recently came across a clip on this channel featuring Donal Leace and several other musicians.Honestly he's far and away the best and most sensitive performer of any of them. Really surprising no ones hardly heard of him before. The 1960s were undoubtedly peculiar times, and this further shows that history often operates outside the realm of meritocracy.
Donal Leace has an excellent muisc form
Bravo!
He was my friend:( thanks for posting his works
Donal Lease was one of the finest persons I have known and a singer and musician of immeasurable quality. When I heard he had died from covid I was devastated. I was so lucky to have worked with him.
Clark Santee - director of THE SHOW 1969
did he ever do a duet MELANIE on The Show ?
They performed on the same show but did not do a duet.
Was there a host on The Show? I remember Donal being on there more than once. If I remember correctly there was a host who introduced the acts and get a discussion going
YES... The host was Bob Walsh, who co-produced THE SHOW with me and Linda Reavely. A year after THE SHOW Bob worked for Fred Rogers while Linda went west to revolve in Los Angeles TV circles. I Remained in touch with both for a while, but have since Lost track of them. I rememmber Bobs' idol was Johnny Carson, and that could be seen in the way he hosted THE SHOW. Donal Lease appeared on all 26 shows Eventually he became a memeber of the faculty at the Duke Ellington school in Washington, DC, providing a path into the arts for many talented kids. At the height of the Covid pandemic the illness took Donal's life.
Clark Santee
Thank you for the info and for putting these videos on here. Used to watch when I was 16-17 years old, just turned 70 in July
It is good to know someone was watching. We were young and really did not know what we were doing. That's what it was like that first year of public television... we were all guessing. The popularity of these music performances from THE SHOW on UA-cam 50 years later is quite gratifying.
Another early PBS show from 70-71 era was The Great American Dream Machine, so PBS had some good shows back in the early days