SONG - 1,000 Miles from Nowhere by Augusta Lee Collins

Thursday, September 2, 2010

1975 - Rediscovered Photos of Augusta Lee Collins

Augusta Lee Collins is best known as a very talented drummer that was most prolific throughout
the late 1960’s and into the middle 1980’s.

Performing with legends like Lightnin’ Hopkins, Herbie Hancock, Abbey Lincoln, George Duke, Hampton Hawes, Sun Ra, Bobby Hutcherson, Woody Shaw, Juilian "Cannonball" Adderley, Nate Adderley, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Charles Wright (of the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band) and the Pointer Sisters to name a few.  Augusta showed an interest in all forms of music very early.  Augusta has performed at the U.C. Berkeley Jazz Festival three times and the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Alameda County and California State Fairs and the African American Museum and Library at Oakland three times and the Oakland Museum as well as performing with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, Harold Fiberman conductor 
              and musical director and many other venues including much television (ABC, NBC PBS, CBS, KTVU, community and college run television...etc.) and radio (NPR, KALX, KPOO, BERKELEY LIBERATION RADIO, KPFA, KBLX, community and college run radio...etc.)
Augusta Lee Collins has toured both the United States and Europe.


  Augusta Lee Collins  in collaborations with 'rie Shontel performed in the one woman show "Mama Juggs" and on December 17, 2010, West Coast Blues Hall of Famer/Singer-Songwriter Augusta Lee Collins with Emmy Award-winning Producer Anita S. Woodley released, the long awaited CD "In The Studio with Augusta Lee Collins" Produced by Anita S. Woodley.

The 40-minute musical journey combines both song and the stories that inspired his original compositions.


and now

"GAME"

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