Ben Sollee is an American cellist, singer-songwriter, and composer known for his political activism. His music incorporates banjo, guitar, and mandolin along with percussion and unusual cello techniques. His songs exhibit a mix of folk, bluegrass, jazz, and R&B elements. Sollee has also composed longer instrumental pieces for dance ensembles and for film. Sollee revealed on Twitter that, in the fall of 2020, he contracted COVID-19. The following year, he tweeted that, as a result, he now suffers from long covid.
Ben Sollee in 2014
Ben Sollee performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2009
Ben Sollee performing with his mother and aunt at a concert in Corbin, KY in 2017
Lafayette High School (Kentucky)
Lafayette High School is a public high school in Lexington, Kentucky that has been open for 85 years, seen the beginning of racially-desegregated education in the city, and been overseen by eight principals.
Lafayette in August 2019
Lafayette's northwest wing (August 2019)