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Chatting with 2025 Grammy winner Ruthie Foster

Chatting with 2025 Grammy winner Ruthie Foster

After five nominations, Ruthie Foster has taken home the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album - affirming her status as an American music legend. In this intimate conversation, she shares what made her want to be a singer; the roles of her grandmother and mother in her life; why faith is so important to her and why she wants to sing about real people. And much more… A Heartlands Conservation presented at the Blue Mountains Music Festival. Speakers Ruthie Foster American singer-songwriter of blues and folk music. 2025 Grammy Award winner for Best Contemporary Blues Album Gregg Borschmann (host) Writer, radio producer and oral historian for the National Library of Australia

Big Ideas · Australian Broadcasting Corporation

May 12, 202553m 49s

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Show Notes

After five nominations, Ruthie Foster has taken home the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album - affirming her status as an American music legend. In this intimate conversation, she shares what made her want to be a singer; the roles of her grandmother and mother in her life; why faith is so important to her and why she wants to sing about real people. And much more…

A Heartlands Conservation presented at the Blue Mountains Music Festival.

Speakers

Ruthie FosterAmerican singer-songwriter of blues and folk music. 2025 Grammy Award winner for Best Contemporary Blues Album

Gregg Borschmann (host)Writer, radio producer and oral historian for the National Library of Australia

Topics

Ruthie FosterGregg BorschmannmusicgospelfolkbluescountryBlue Mountain Music Festival