The internationally acclaimed Cantorion Colin Jones, an all volunteer choir from Wales, performs well known and traditional songs in a dramatic setting at the magnificent Manchester Cathedral in Manchester, England.

From Native American drums to the brass bands of New Orleans, from juke joints to blue grass and delta blues, from gospel and soul to zydeco, this series explores the richness, vitality, and diversity of American music. Traveling down the Mississippi from its headwaters in northern Minnesota to the river's mouth in the Gulf of Mexico, this journey crosses boundaries of genre, geography and ethnicity to reveal a portrait of American music and the people who make it.