Jacqueline will play music from her extensive work with Ken Burns and discuss and illustrate the magic of working with this talented documentary maker.  “Jacqueline Schwab brings more feeling and intensity to music than anyone I know. Her playing is insistent, physical, heartfelt and ... unusually moving,”  comments Ken Burns.

She has performed throughout the US and has been heard on these PBS series by Ken Burns: 

The Civil War (Grammy Award, 1990)

Empire of the Air

Baseball (Emmy Award, 1995)

The West

Thomas Jefferson

Lewis and Clark

Frank Lloyd Wright

Not for Ourselves Alone—The Story of Elizabeth Cady    Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Mark Twain

Horatio’s Drive

The War

The National Parks—America’s Best Idea

The Dust Bowl

Benjamin Franklin

Plus re-use of other prerecorded material: The Congress, Unforgivable Blackness—The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The Roosevelts, The Mayo Clinic, Vietnam