Informal Conversations between Mark Meynell and people from different walks of life and experience, about life, the universe, and everything, and especially faith, creativity and the imagination.
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Informal Conversations between Mark Meynell and people from different walks of life and experience, about life, the universe, and everything, and especially faith, creativity and the imagination.
Ruth Naomi Floyd (Jazz Singer, Photographer, Servant of the City)
Quaerentia Conversations
1 hour 13 minutes 30 seconds
12 years ago
Ruth Naomi Floyd (Jazz Singer, Photographer, Servant of the City)
Ruth Naomi Floyd is a remarkably talented person: a powerful jazz singer, steeped in her African American heritage and jazz's roots in the Spirituals and Blues; a portrait photographer; a teacher; a worker amongst those living with HIV/AIDS, in her home town of Philadelphia and in Kenya.
Our conversation ranged widely over everything from Malcolm X to Queen Victoria, Calvary to Kenya, Job to joy.
Podcast includes a few musical excerpts taken from her albums:
- Walk & Not Be Faint (1999)
- Fan into Flame (2002)
- Root to the Fruit (2006)
Further details on www.contourrecords.com
Quaerentia Conversations
Informal Conversations between Mark Meynell and people from different walks of life and experience, about life, the universe, and everything, and especially faith, creativity and the imagination.
