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November 18, 2009 at 12:00 noon
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View the webcast of this presentation Running time 1:00:05
As poets, songwriters and horsemen, Wylie Gustafson and Paul Zarzyski have pursued their writing and riding passions for over 35 years. Wylie Gustafson's performing career began in his teens. His break came when his band, Wylie & The Wild West, appeared on Ronnie Mack's Barn Dance at The Palomino Club in North Hollywood, which helped them secure a record deal. That done, he moved Dusty, Washington, where he established the Cross Three Quarter Horse Ranch. Wylie remains a full-time cutting horse trainer and competitor, as well as a full-time musician. He has recorded over fifteen albums, and has played thousands of venues around the world, including more than fifty appearances on The Grand Ole Opry. He has also been a guest on Late Night With Conan O'Brien and on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. Paul Zarzyski has spent fifteen seasons as a bareback bronco rider on the amateur, pro, and senior circuits. This experience has infused his poetry with rodeo images and lingo. He is the recipient of the 2005 Montana Governor's Arts Award for Literature. His books have won a Western Heritage award for poetry from The National Cowboy Hall of Fame, and a Spur Award from The Western Writers of America. In addition to his eight collections of printed work, he has recorded four spoken-word CDs. In 1987, he was invited to the third annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, where he's performed every year since, and where he crossed trails with Wylie. Shortly thereafter, their co-written songs began to appear on Wylie's albums. In the fall of 2008, they joined Nashville producer John Carter Cash in his Cash Cabin Studio to record the CD HANG-n-RATTLE! According to Mark Bedor of American Cowboy magazine, they're "like Lennon and McCartney in cowboy hats."
View the webcast of this presentation Running time 1:05:16
Blanch Sockabasin (Passamaquoddy Tribe, Princeton, ME) teaches Native music, drumming, singing and dancing at the Indian Township School in eastern Maine. Blanch also makes Native baskets and works with leather crafts. Her first love is teaching all that she can about Passamaquoddy culture and language. She was recently honored by the Maine State Legislature for her efforts in preserving the Passamaquoddy way of life. She is deeply committed to passing on the rich Passamaquoddy culture to the children of her Tribe.
Wayne Newell was born at Sipayik (Pleasant Point) Reservation in eastern Maine is a member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe. Wayne is a storyteller, singer of Passamaquoddy and other Native music. He speaks the Passamaquoddy language fluently and utilizes English as his second language. Educated at the local schools, he eventually went on to earn his Masters degree in the field of education from Harvard University. Wayne's first love is the preservation of the Passamaquoddy language. In 1971, he directed the first bilingual/bicultural education program for the Passamaquoddy Tribe. This program included the introduction of a writing system for the Passamaquoddy language which continues to be spoken by tribal members. He authored and co-authored over forty reading books written in the Passamaquoddy/Maliseet language.
View the Webcast of this presentation Running time 1:04:21
Sreevidhya Chandramouli plays the vina, a plucked Indian lute with a fretboard spanning three and a half octaves. She was trained in the Karaikudi vina tradition, the only school of south Indian vina players that goes back more than ten generations. Sreevidhya learned from her mother, Rajeswari Padmanabhan, who is a ninth-generation exponent, and a granddaughter of Karaikudi Subbarama Iyer, who is considered one of the founders of the Karaikudi style of vina playing. Sreevidhya later pursued vocal training with the late Sri. Vairamanagalam Lakshminarayanan and Smt. Suguna Varadachari in Chennai, India. Sreevidhya earned a Master's degree in music at the University of Madras in 1988, and has lived in Portland, Oregon since the late 1980s. She has served as a visiting artist at the University of Washington and as an artist-in-residence at the University of Oregon, where she offers regular lecture demonstrations on Indian music and culture. Her performance and teaching career spans over twenty-five years, and includes appearances in Asia, Europe and North America. Along with her mother, she was featured in the book The Singer & the Song: Conversations with Women Musicians by C.S. Lakshmi (2000).
View the webcast of this presentation Running time 1:05:00
Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers, quartet style a capella gospel music from Kentucky The Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers of Covington, Kentucky, is among the very few remaining quartet-style groups that still perform a cappella. The Singers, consisting of Eric Riley, Ric Jennings, Greg Page, Shaka Tyehimba, Stace Darden & Demetrius Davenport, specialize in the intricate and emotional four-part harmony "jubilee" style pioneered by such legendary groups as the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Golden Gate Quartet, and the Soul Stirrers. The Brotherhood Singers started singing at the 9th Street Baptist Church in Covington. The group has performed in churches and secular music venues, as well as on television, throughout the U.S., as well as in Canada and Spain, which they have toured 14 times.
View the webcast of this presentation Running time 1:02:34
Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac (which translates from the Aztec language as "School of the Blood Moving in the Heart") performs thoroughly researched recreations of ancient Aztec music and dance from Mexico. The group was founded by Daniel Chico Lorenzo and Brujo de la Mancha in 2003. Daniel has extensive knowledge of ancient Mexican culture and languages; his first language was Nahuatl, an indigenous Mesoamerican language closely related to the one spoken by the ancient Aztecs. Brujo is a multidisciplinary artist, and became the dance and music teacher for OYC when Daniel returned to his hometown in December, 2006. Brujo also makes the group's musical instruments and choreographs their dances. The members of OYC are immigrants from various parts of Mexico, residing in and around Philadelphia. They see their troupe as a chance to teach both Mexicans and Americans about their shared indigenous history. Dressed in animal skins, feathers and ankle shakers made from seeds, the dancers pay respect to the four corners of the planet before beginning their dance, which is accompanied by the huehuetl (drum). They perform frequently at community events throughout the Philadelphia region, and are particularly known for celebrations of the Day of the Dead, Cinco de Mayo, Summer Solstice, and other holidays celebrated by their Aztec forebears and their Mexican contemporaries.
View the webcast of this presentation Running time 1:00:00
Brendan Carey Block is a multi-faceted fiddler from New Hampshire, grounded in the musical traditions of New England and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. He has been performing since the age of ten and has made many trips to Cape Breton to learn from master fiddlers and be immersed in the Scottish-based heritage of the island. Brendan has achieved wide recognition for his virtuosic fiddling and was named the U.S. National Junior Scottish Fiddle Champion for 2000 and 2001. Brendan has toured and recorded with many great artists including the renowned Glengarry Bhoys, the Boston-based band Annalivia, and his own duo project with guitarist Flynn Cohen. In this concert, he will perform his traditional repertoire of jigs, reels, and airs. Brendan is also and avid dogsledder and raises Siberian huskies.
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