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Brian McCoy
Apprenticeship description One of the goals of their apprenticeship has been for Schwartz to research and interpret sheet music. Such interpretation requires awareness of the cultural context for a...
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Ohio Heritage Fellowship Information West African drummer and performer Sogbety Diomande is receiving a 2013 Ohio Heritage Fellowship for Performing Arts. A drummer and dancer from the Ivory Coast of...
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Weichih (Rosa) Lee
Biography Weichih (Rosa) is Chinese and was born in Taiwan. She grew up in a household of Chinese musicians, including her mother who played the Yang-Qin. Ms. Lee began to learn the Chinese zither at...
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Baba Jubal Harris
Biography Baba Jubal is an African American born in Cincinnati, Ohio. His great, great grandparents were brought to the Carolinas as slaves from Gambia, West Africa. He began learning African rhythms...
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Barry Wheeler
Biography Barry Wheeler is a fourth-generation blacksmith who learned his art form from his maternal grandfather who was a machinist. At age five he made his first blacksmithing piece, and he...
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Elaina Hernandez
Biography In 1996 Elaina Hernandez founded El Corazon de Mexico Ballet Folklorico, which translates as “The Heart of Mexico.” Ms. Hernandez is a 30-year veteran of Mexican folkloric dance. She studied...
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Biography Linda Thomas Jones is considered one of the founding mothers of female African drumming in the United States. She began her career in drumming at the age of 18 as a dance major at Case...
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Roy Adams
Biography Blacksmith Roy Adams has been forging since 2008 and opened his forging company in 2012. Roy has had extensive blacksmith training. He has studied under master smiths Peter Ross, Thomas...
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Biography Riley School of Irish Music was founded in 1996 by Susan Gross Gilligan. The Riley School is a community of children, teens and adults dedicated to the pursuit of Irish traditional music....
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Hasu Patel
Hasu Patel, is one of the few world-class female artists performing today classical music on Sitar, the most popular string instrument of India. She is the performing artist for the Ohio Arts Council,...
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