Dolly Jacobs Awarded Prestigious NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award

Coconut Telegraph

Sarasota’s very own “Queen of the Air,” Dolly Jacobs, was awarded with a prestigious NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award on October 1, in Washington, D.C. Dolly also performed in a concert featuring the 2015 honorees at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium on October 2. The NEA National Heritage Fellowship is “the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts,” and Dolly is now in the company of past honorees including bluesman B.B. King, cowboy poet Wally McRae, and gospel and soul singer Mavis Staples. 

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