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Works Progress Administration, formerly known by the working name The Scrolls, is an American supergroup led by Sean Watkins, Glen Phillips, and Luke Bulla. [1] They recorded their debut album with Benmont Tench ( piano ), Sara Watkins ( fiddle ), Greg Leisz (various instruments), Pete Thomas ( drums ), and Davey Faragher ( bass ). [ 2 ]
The Federal Music Project of the Works Progress Administration: Music in a Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 1963) Gough, Peter, and Peggy Seeger, Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West (2015) Galván, Gary. "The ABCs of the WPA Music Copying Project and the Fleisher Collection". American Music. 26, Number 4 ...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.
In January 2008, Phillips released an EP Secrets of the New Explorers, with music influenced by Talk Talk and Peter Gabriel. [ 13 ] In January 2008, Phillips formed the supergroup Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) featuring Phillips, Sean Watkins (guitar), his sister Sara Watkins (fiddle), Benmont Tench (piano), Luke Bulla (fiddle), Greg ...
Federal Project Number One, also referred to as Federal One (Fed One), is the collective name for a group of projects under the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program in the United States. Of the $ 4.88 billion allocated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 , [ 1 ] $27 million was approved for the employment of artists ...
The Alexander Avenue approach to the Golden Gate Bridge was a WPA project. ... This is a topic category for the topic Works Progress Administration ... Federal Music ...
Part of the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Theatre Project was a New Deal program established August 27, 1935, [5]: 29 funded under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. Of the $ 4.88 billion allocated to the WPA, [ 6 ] $27 million was approved for the employment of artists , musicians , writers and actors under the WPA's ...
Others were established through Roosevelt executive orders, such as the Works Progress Administration and the Office of Censorship, or were part of larger programs such as the many that belonged to the Works Progress Administration. Some of the agencies still exist today, while others have merged with other departments and agencies or were ...