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| Scooter Muse
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4-28-2009 |
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Joey Brackner interviews Scooter Muse,
the virtuoso banjo and guitar player from Florence, Alabama. Muse
discusses his musical development and his continuing fascination with
Celtic music.
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| Pietrasanta
|
4-21-2009 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews Valentina
Fogher, Collaborator of Cultural Activities for the City of
Pietrasanta, Italy, about the Cultural Exchange Exchange between
the State of Alabama and Italy. The program began in the summer of
2008 when Alabama took artists, musicians, exhibitions, film, and
literature to Pietrasanta. From April 16-May 2, 2009, Italian artists,
dancers, musicians, and film will be in Alabama. The focus of
activities will be in Montgomery, with additional programs in
Birmingham and Sylacauga. The City of Montgomery will sign a Sister
City agreement with Pietrasanta. The theme of the Exchange this year
is Michelangelo and His Heirs.
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| Jim Murphy |
4-14-2009 |
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Poet Jim
Murphy is interviewed by Jeanie
Thompson, executive director of the Alabama
Writers' Forum. Murphy is the author of Heaven
Overland,
published this year by Kennesaw
State University Press. He is associate professor of English at
the University of Montevallo, and his poems have appeared in The
Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Brooklyn
Review, Painted
Bride Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Fine Madness, The Alaska Quarterly
Review, Puerto del Sol, and in other journals, as well as in
The
Memphis Sun (Kent State University Press, 2000). He serves as
Director of the Montevallo Literary
Festival, held on campus each
spring, and as an editor in poetry for Red
Mountain Review, a Birmingham-based literary journal.
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| Author Mary
Ward Brown |
4-07-2009 |
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Randy Shoults, Community Arts and
Literature Program Manager, travels to Selma to attend the public
library's 'Lunch
at the Library' program series and record their guest writer, Mary
Ward Brown as she discusses her just published memoir, Fanning
the Spark. After Ms. Ward’s presentation, long time friend
and Instructor of English at University of North Alabama, Pam
Kingsbury conducts a short interview.
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| Old-Time
Banjo Champion Robert
Montgomery |
3-31-2009 |
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Alabama native and National
Old-Time Banjo Champion Robert
Montgomery talks with Deborah Boykin about his musical influences
and the upcoming Chicken
and Egg Festival in Moulton on April 18-19, 2009. In the program
he demonstrates old-time banjo styles and discusses his recordings.
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| Cassie
Allen and Emily Creel, Christian Harmony Singing School |
3-17-2009 |
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edition by Cassie Allen
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Steve Grauberger visits County Line Church in Corner Alabama to
interview Cassie Allen and Emily Creel about their Christian
Harmony singing school and next day singing held February 7th and
8th, 2009. Discussed in this program is the history of the 1958
Alabama edition of William Walker's Christian Harmony and the
necessity of holding singing schools to teach shape-note singing. Also
included in the program are songs recorded during this year's event.
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| Paddy
Bowman, Director, Local Learning. The National Network for Folk Arts in Education |
3-10-2009 |
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Deborah Boykin interviews folklorist Paddy Bowman,
Director, for Local Learning. The National Network for Folk Arts in Education
about her recent
workshop for Alabama educators at the statewide Arts
Education Summit. Bowman, who moved to north Alabama as a
teenager, uses this experience to explain the importance of
community and culture in the classroom.
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| 24th
annual Alabama Clay Conference |
3-03-2009 |
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In honor
of the 24th annual Alabama
Clay Conference sponsored by the Alabama Craft Council and planned
for Huntsville March 13-15, Georgine Clarke interviews Chris Greenman
and Steve Loucks. Greenman is on the art faculty of Alabama State
University and Loucks teaches at Jacksonville State University. Both
are art professors as well as professional craft artists working
in clay. The discussion covers the process of producing ceramic
pieces, marketing, and the importance of the annual conference.
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| Jerry
Brown |
2-24-2009 |
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To help promote the upcoming Jerry
Brown Arts Festival , this program is a rebroadcast
of Joey Brackner interviewing Jerry
Brown about the process of pottery making at his
shop in Hamilton Alabama. This year the Jerry
Brown Arts Festival is located at the
Old WalMart Building at 1500 Military Street South, in Hamilton on
March 7-8, 2009.
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| Blackbelt Tour CD |
2-17-2009 |
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Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, interviews
Cinque Cullar. Mr. Cullar
is founder and artistic director for the Tribe of Judah, a youth
gospel group of students from Alabama State University and the
Montgomery community. Mr. Cullar and Ms. Edwards talk about the newly
released Black Belt Gospel Tour CD featuring students from Tuskegee
Booker T.Washington High School, Greensboro East High School, Selma
High School, Francis Marion High School and Judson College Voices of
Praise.
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| Kathleen
Driskell |
2-10-2009 |
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Jeanie
Thompson,
executive director of the Alabama
Writers’ Forum, interviews poet and teacher Kathleen
Driskell, author of Seed Across Snow and Laughing Sickness.
Driskell’s poems have appeared in leading literary journals and she
teaches in the Spalding
University Brief Residency MFA Writing Program in Louisville, KY.
Driskell will be in Alabama April 17-18, 2009, to participate in an
Alabama High School Teacher Workshop on
Friday
and the Alabama
Book Festival Poetry Tent on Saturday.
Driskell reads from Seed Across Snow and talks about her
subjects in poems – domestic emergencies, motherhood, and everyday
life that resonates with lush language and a deeply held sense of the
world’s value. She also discusses teaching creative writing, and the
value of the arts in our schools.
Thompson interviewed Driskell in the studios of WFPL
in Louisville, Kentucky, and extends thanks to the staff for
assistance.
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| Alabama
Arts Education Summit 2 ”Speaking with One Voice" |
2-03-2009 |
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This is a rebroadcast of our 2nd program on the Alabama
Arts Education Summit 2008 held in Troy, Alabama. This year the Summit will
take place, in Troy, Alabama February 18-20, 2009. Our second show focuses
on the essential link needed between higher education and K-12
schools. Diana Green, arts in education program manager interviews
Professor and arts educator Larry Percy, who hosted the Summit at Troy
University last year. Mr.
Percy discusses the potential for higher education to take a leading
role in providing quality arts education in K-12 schools.
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| Alabama
Arts Education Summit 1 ”Speaking with One Voice" |
1-27-2009 |
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This is a rebroadcast of our program on the Alabama
Arts Education Summit 2008. This year the Summit will
take place in Troy, Alabama February 18-20, 2009. The theme for this year's statewide conference is ”Speaking
with One Voice." In this radio show, performing arts program manager Yvette
Daniel interviews the four partners that were instrumental in the
planning and implementation of the 2008 Summit: Diana Green, arts in
education program manager at the Council, Donna Russell, executive
director of the Alabama Alliance for
Arts Education, Martha Lockett, executive director of the Alabama
Institute for Education in the Arts, and Sara Wright, director of
academic innovative initiatives at the Alabama
State Department of Education.
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| Shapenote
singing in Alabama |
1-20-2009 |
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This program is a rebroadcast of Alabama shapenote music and its
history, in preparation for this year's Annual Capitol Rotunda
Four-Book Shapenote Singing that will be held January 31st at the Alabama Department of Archives and History
off of Union St between Adams and Washington in Montgomery. The
singing will start at 9:30 am and end at 3pm. The public is welcome to
come and listen or sing. For more information call 334-242-4076, x-225.
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| Film maker Robert Clem and
Auguster Maul
of the Delta Aires Quartet |
1-13-2009 |
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In the first half of the program Joey Brackner interviews Film maker
Robert Clem about his new film Gospel Highway. In the second
half Joey interviews Auguster Maul, lead singer for the Delta Aires
Quartet.
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| Dr.
Wayne Flynt |
1-6-2009 |
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This program is a rebroadcast of ASCA folklorist Joey
Brackner interviewing preeminent Alabama historian Dr.
Wayne Flynt about his book Alabama in the Twentieth Century.
In the interview Dr. Flynt outlines the significant cultural
contributions of Alabamians during the late century. Wayne
Flynt is the Distinguished University Professor of History at
Auburn University.
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| Henri's
Notions |
12-30-2008 |
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Henri's Notion
creates a musical mix of traditional Celtic and American music as well as
their own compositions that have a rhythm and voice reflective of their Southern
heritage, which lends a pleasing familiarity to the music.
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| Heim
Duo |
12-23-2008 |
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Seasonal music from
husband and wife duo, Annette
and Bret Heim, who combine the flute and classical guitar in an exquisite, intimate
experience. Their ability to bring their audience into their
performances ensures repeat request and performances. They present
compositions by living American and British composers of note in an
audience-friendly way. Their performance at the National Czech and
Slovak Museum was described as "absolutely astonishing."
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| Four
Eagles a cappella Gospel Quartet |
12-16-2008 |
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A full program of music of The Four Eagles
Quartet a capella gospel group is presented from a program originally recorded during the
"Sounds of the Seasons" performance series held at the
Alabama State Capitol building in 2002.
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| Dr.
Henry Glassie |
12-09-2008 |
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Joey Brackner interviews
renowned folklorist Henry
Glassie about his life and research of vernacular architecture
in the Southern United States, and particularly in Alabama. |
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| Alabama Linguists Tom
Nunnally and Catherine
Evans Davies |
12-02-2008 |
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Joey Brackner
interviews linguists Dr.
Thomas Nunnally and Dr.
Catherine Davies about the new Tributaries:
Journal of the Alabama Foliklife Association
Vol X that deals entirely with the dialects of Alabamians and southern speech. |
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| Banjoist Doug Back |
11-25-2008 |
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This program is a
rebroadcast of Steve
Grauberger interviewing Doug
Back on the history of Classic
Banjo. The program includes musical examples from Back's CD releases, The
Banjo Goes Highbrow and The
Big Trio Reprise on the Belmando
label.
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| Ella Joyce |
11-18-2008 |
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Yvette Daniel interviews actress and
playwright Ella Joyce
about her one woman play A
Rose Among Thorns: A Dramatic Tribute to Rosa Parks.
Also discussed is Joyce's career on the stage, silver screen and
in television. |
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| Jennifer Horne |
11-11-2008 |
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ASCA
Literature Fellowship Recipient in Poetry, Jennifer Horne talks with
Jeanie Thompson, Executive Director of the Alabama
Writers' Forum, about Horne's love of Southern farming and
gardening, her work as an anthologist, and her
forthcoming poetry collection Bottle
Tree (WordTech, 2010). Horne's anthologies include Working
the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets, published in 2003 by
New South Books, and All
Out of Faith: Southern Women Writers on Spirituality, edited
with Wendy Reed and published by the University of Alabama Press.
Horne holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, has published
poems online in StorySouth.com
and other literary journals, and is poetry book reviews editor for
the Forum's Book
Reviews on line. |
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| Kathryn Tucker Windham |
10-28-2008 |
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Betty Ann Lloyd interviews Kathryn Tucker
Windham about the John
Reese photo exhibit featuring the people of Gees Bend, now
on display at Gees Bend Quilt Collective. Kathryn also discusses her
time as a newspaper reporter and amateur photographer. |
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| Jannetta Whitt-Mitchell |
10-21-2008 |
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Randy Shoults interviews Jannetta
Whitt-Mitchell about various aspects of the Gulf
Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival that takes place during
the first weekend in August each year in Mobile. |
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| Beth
Nielsen Chapman |
10-14-2008 |
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Arts Council Executive Director Al Head
interviews Beth Nielsen
Chapman about her life as a popular singer/songwriter and
as an educator. They also discuss Chapman's inspirations and
her unique process of songwriting. |
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| George Culver |
10-07-2008 |
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Yvette Daniel, Performing Arts Program
Manager interviews George Culver the Executive Director of the Historic
Ritz Theatre of Talladega, Alabama. On October 31st and November
1st 2008. the Ritz will be hosting Hal Holbrook in MARK
TWAIN TONIGHT. These performances are billed as among
the final few of this historic production's run.
Culver also discusses educational programs connected to Ritz Theatre
presentations and the interesting history of this historic theater
in Talladega. |
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| National Heritage
Fellow Bettye Kimbrell |
09-30-2008 |
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Anne Kimzey, folklorist with
the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Jefferson County
quilter Bettye Kimbrell about her work with 4-H Club students and
their quilt exhibit at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Kimbrell is a
2008 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition The Quilts of Bettye
Kimbrell: Celebrating the National Heritage Fellowship is on
display at the Alabama Artists' Gallery in the RSA Tower, 201 Monroe
Street, Montgomery from September 19 - October 31, 2008. A
reception honoring Mrs. Kimbrell is scheduled for Tuesday, October 7,
2008, from 4-6 p.m. |
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| Robert
J. (Jeff) Jakeman, Clair
Wilson and Ben
Berntson |
09-23-2008 |
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Joey Brackner interviews
editors Jeff
Jakeman, Claire
Wilson and Ben
Berntson about the new online Encyclopedia
of Alabama. |
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| Yvonne Wells |
09-16-2008 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews
Tuscaloosa quilt artist Yvonne Wells, whose quilts are known as
story or picture quilts. Her hand-stitched fabric
constructions use rich symbolism and vivid colors, with themes
ranging from religion to social and political issues. She also
frequently produces whimsical and humorous pieces. Of
particular note are her portrayals of the Civil Rights
movement, with quilts depicting the history of slavery as
well as icons Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks.
She has represented the State of Alabama in international cultural
programs in France and Italy. In the interview, Yvonne talks
about her choice of materials and also discusses two projects:
twelve quilts she describes as "a book" titled On the
Move and a group depicting the Seven Deadly Sins. |
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| Bill Ivey |
09-09-2008 |
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Arts Council Executive
Director Al Head interviews Bill Ivey, Director of the Curb
Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt
University. Subjects discussed are Ivey's background as
past head of the National Endowment
for the Arts, his involvement with the Curb Center and issues
concerning Ivey's recently published book, arts,
inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights. |
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| Dekalb Fiddling Convention, Eric
McKinney and Russell Gulley |
09-02-2008 |
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Joey Brackner interviews
Eric McKinney and Russell Gulley about the Annual Dekalb Fiddling
Convention held in Ft Payne. |
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| Birmingham Rhapsody Project |
08-26-2008 |
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Joey Brackner interviews Sally
Smith and Jamie Lawrence of Alabama Contemporary Theater. They
discuss "Birmingham
Rhapsody" a play being developed from oral histories that
the theater has been collecting about Birmingham's Civil Rights era. |
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| Photographer Stephen Savage |
08-19-2008 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews
Alabama artist Stephen
Savage of Daphne. Savage received the 2002 Alabama State Council
on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in photography in 2002. He
teaches and also produces both commercial and fine art photography.
The discussion covers elements of the art form and the uses of
digital photography as well as current approaches to teaching.
Savage describes the Alabama Photo Book project which he is
producing with print maker and art book designer Amos Paul Kennedy,
Jr. In this project participating Alabama photographers provide a
photograph which is used with limited text to produce a simple eight
page book. |
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| Gene Ivey |
08-12-2008 |
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Sand Mountain fiddler Gene
Ivey is the subject of this week’s program on Alabama Arts Radio.
Folklorist Anne Kimzey talks to Mr. Ivey and his apprentice Joseph
Coleman about playing music and making handcrafted fiddles at
Ivey’s workshop in Ider. |
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| Dr. Billie Jean
Young |
08-05-2008 |
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This show is a repeat of an earlier
broadcast in acknowledgment of playwright and educator Billie Jean
Young as a recipient of the 2008 Alabama State Council on the Arts
Fellowship in the area of theater. Fellowships are the most
prestigious of grants awarded to individuals by the Council. In this
program, Steve Grauberger interviews actor and playwright Dr. Billie
Jean Young, in Yantley Alabama, about her play Oh Mary Don't you
Weep: The Margaret Ann Knott Legacy. Also interviewed is
Choctaw, County educator and civil rights activist Carrie Mae
Johnson. |
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| Folk School at
Camp McDowell |
07-29-2008 |
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In this
program, Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State
Council on the Arts, travels to the Alabama Folk School at Camp
McDowell near Jasper. She talks with Folk School
director Megan Huston and potter Sandra Heaven about pottery making
and other craft and music classes offered in this natural retreat
setting. |
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| Kevin Nutt |
07-22-2008 |
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Rebroadcast of Steve Grauberger
interviewing Kevin Nutt, of CaseQuarter
Records talking about his research on early
blues recording artist Ed Bell from Greenville, Alabama. His Tributaries
article
on the subject can be obtained at Alabamafolklife.org
Kevin can be heard weekly, online, at WFMU
with his radio program Sinners
Crossroads. |
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| Sacred Harp Book Company
(Cooper revision)
|
07-15-2008 |
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This program is a rebroadcast of Steve Grauberger
interviewing Stanley
Smith, John Etheridge, and Bill
Aplin, elected officers of the Sacred Harp Book Company (Cooper
revision), includes Sacred Harp singing
examples.
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| VSA Arts of Alabama Arts in
Heathcare Program
|
07-08-2008 |
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Meagan Vucovich, summer intern for the Alabama
State Council on the Arts, interviews Patti Hendrix Lovoy, director of
VSA Arts of Alabama, along
with Ali DeCamillis, art therapist, Dr. Rodney Tucker, director of the
UAB Palliative Care Unit,
Dr. Avi
Madan-Swain, a Pediatric Psychologist/Neuropsychologist at UAB.
The discussion focuses on VSA Arts of Alabama’s Arts in Healthcare
program.
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| Your Town Alabama Workshop
|
07-01-2008 |
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This is a repeat of Gina Clifford, director of Design
Alabama, interviewing Cheryl
Morgan, Professor at Auburn University and Director of the
Center for Architecture and Urban Studies, about Your Town Alabama
Workshop. Your Town
Workshop is an intensive two-and-half day
event that includes: lectures, case-study presentations, and
interactive group problem solving scenarios involving community planning and
design work in a hypothetical small town.
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| Bobby Horton
|
06-24-2008 |
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This
is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing Alabama's curator of
historic song - Bobby Horton. Best known for his CDs of Civil
War era music and membership in the popular band Three On a
String,
Mr. Horton also discusses his family's musical heritage and his work
composing songs for numerous Ken Burns' documentary films. Bobby
Horton was a recipient of a 2005 Governor's Arts Award.
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| Thomas Hylton, Save
Our Land Save Our Towns
|
06-17-2008 |
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DesignAlabama
was honored to have Thomas Hylton, of Save
Our Land, Save Our Towns as a speaker at their 2008 DesignAlabama Mayors
Design Summit. As a former newspaper, man, this Pennsylvania native and resident has turned a passion for a walkable world into a
successful non-profit organization promoting walkable communities,
downtown redevelopment and historic preservation. Join us during this
radio program as we learn more about what individuals and communities can do to save our land and save our towns.
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| Mark
Gooch
|
06-10-2008 |
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Anne
Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts,
interviews Birmingham photographer Mark
Gooch about his career and his recent project documenting Alabama
folk artists for the exhibition Carry On: Celebrating Twenty Years
of the Alabama Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. (click
here for PDF)
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| Poet Jake
Adam York
|
06-03-2008 |
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Jeanie
Thompson, executive director of the Alabama
Writers' Forum, interviews poet and Gadsden, Alabama native Jake
Adam York, whose collection A
Murmuration
of Starlings was recently published by Southern Illinois
University Press. The book won the Crab Orchard Review Open Poetry
Competition in 2007. Thompson talks with York about the elegies for
slain civil rights workers and other individuals, including Emmit Till
who was killed in Money, Mississippi, that comprise the collection.
York's previous book, Murder Ballads, contains the first of
these elegies, and he plans to continue the sequence through several
more poetry collections. He teaches at the University of Colorado in
Denver where he directs the undergraduate creative writing program.
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| National
Heritage Fellowship Recipient Bettye Kimbrell
|
05-27-2008 |
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In
this
program Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the
Arts, interviews Jefferson County quilter Bettye Kimbrell about her
work with 4-H Club students and their quilt exhibit at Birmingham
Botanical Gardens. Kimbrell is a 2008 recipient of a National Heritage
Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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| Kate Gale and Richard
Goodman
|
05-20-2008 |
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Jeanie
Thompson, executive director of the Alabama
Writers’ Forum, interviews two writers who participated in the 3rd
Annual Alabama Book Festival on April 19. Kate
Gale, founding editor of Red
Hen Press of Los Angeles, California, and Richard
Goodman, author of French Dirt and The Soul of Creative Writing,
also taught writing techniques and discussed publishing on April
18 at the inaugural creative writing
workshop open to the general public as part of the Festival
outreach.
Dr. Gale is a poet (Fishers of Men, Selling the Hammock, Mating
Season) novelist, and librettist. She maintains a busy
teaching schedule in the Los Angeles area, manages Red Hen Press –
one of the top selling poetry/prose independent presses in California
–
and pursues her own writing. Mr. Goodman teaches in the Spalding
University Brief Residency MFA Writing Program in Louisville, KY.
He lives in New York, NY. Dr. Gale read in the poetry venue, dubbed
Poetry SouthWest, for the cross fertilization of Southern and Western
writers. Richard Goodman read from his two books and discussed
writing with festival-goers.
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| Michael Vigilant and Elyzabeth
Wilder
|
05-13-2008 |
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Yvette
Daniel interviews Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Chief Operating
Officer Michael Vigilant about upcoming events and his new play Bear
Country. Also on this program is an interview
with Elyzabeth Wilder about her new play
Furniture of Home. Both plays were developed through
the Southern Writers Project at the Alabama
Shakespeare Festival.
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| Mary and Bill Smith, basket makers
|
05-06-2008 |
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Deborah
Boykin interviews basket makers Mary
and Bill
Smith about their participation in the Folk Arts Apprenticeship
program, their work with local Alabama craftsmen, and their
observations about the basket making process.
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| Alabama Arts Education Summit
part 3
|
04-29-2008 |
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Part
III of our Series on the Alabama Arts Education Summit held in Troy,
Alabama February 21-23, 2008. Focusing on the essential link of
communities and K-12 schools, Diana Green interview Dr.
Lisa Stamps, principal at Gordo Elementary in Pickens County,
about the partnerships she has developed to enhance the arts in her
school, and how the Summit supported her efforts.
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| Alabama Arts Education Summit
part 2
|
04-22-2008 |
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Part II of the our Series on the Alabama Arts
Education Summit held in Troy, Alabama February 21-23, 2008. Focusing
on the essential link needed between higher education and K-12
schools, Diana Green, arts in education program manager interviews
Professor and arts educator Larry Percy, who hosted the Summit at Troy
University in Troy Alabama. Mr.
Percy discusses the potential for higher education to take a leading
role in providing quality arts education in K-12 schools.
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| Alabama Arts Education Summit
part 1
|
04-15-2008 |
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Part I of our Series on the Alabama
Arts Education Summit held in Troy, Alabama February 21-23, 2008. The theme for this statewide conference was “Creating
partnerships to ensure quality arts education in Alabama.” As an
introduction to this series, performing arts program manager Yvette
Daniel interviews the four partners that were instrumental in the
planning and implementation of the Summit: Diana Green, arts in
education program manager at the Council, Donna Russell, executive
director of the Alabama Alliance for
Arts Education, Martha Lockett, executive director of the Alabama
Institute for Education in the Arts, and Sara Wright, director of
academic innovative initiatives at the Alabama
State Department of Education.
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| Rheta Grimsley and Ace Adkins
|
04-08-2008 |
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Jeanie
Thompson, executive director of the Alabama
Writers’ Forum, interviews Ace Atkins and Rheta Grimsley
Johnson, two authors who will be joining 70 others at the 3rd
Annual Alabama Book Festival, April 19 in Montgomery’ Old Alabama
Town from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s latest book Poor
Man’s Provence, chronicles her home away from home in Cajun
Louisiana. Grimsley, a native of Montgomery, Alabama,
is an award-winning reporter and columnist for the Atlanta Journal
Constitution and has earned numerous awards for her
writing, including the National
Headliner Award for commentary in and Scripps Howard's Ernie
Pyle Memorial Award. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize for Commentary and is also author of Good
Grief, the authorized biography of Charles
Schulz. Currently she writes a syndicated column for Kings
Features Syndicate.
Ace
Atkins, a native of Troy, Alabama, is the author of critically
acclaimed Nick Travers crime novels, including Crossroad
Blues, Leavin’ Trunk Blues, Dark End of the Street, Dirty South, and
White Shadow.
Atkins talks with Thompson about his new novel Wicked
City, a fictionalized account of Phenix City, Alabama in the
1950s.
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| Dan
Halcomb
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04-01-2008 |
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This weeks program
features Georgine Clarke interviewing Dan Halcomb, Deputy Director of
the Huntsville Arts Council.
Subjects discussed deal with issues of Huntsville area arts
organizations, educational programs and various attributes of this
year's Panoply Festival, to be
held April 25th the 27th, 2008.
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| Author
Kirk Curnutt
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03-25-2008 |
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Jeanie Thompson, executive
director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, interviews Montgomery author
Kirk Curnutt. Curnutt is a 2007 Literature Fellowship recipient
from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. His novel called Breathing
Out the Ghost has just been released from River City Publishing in
Montgomery. Kirk Curnutt is the author of several scholarly works,
most recently The Cambridge Introduction of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
and Coffee with Hemingway (an entry in Duncan Baird
Publishers’ series of imaginary conversations with leading
historical figures). He is also the author of a collection of short
stories, Baby, Let’s Make a Baby, also from River City
Publishing. He is a former finalist for both the
Tennessee Book Award/Peter Taylor Prize and the Dana Literary Awards.
Curnutt is a three-time consecutive winner of the Hackney Literary
Award for short stories. Thompson speaks with him about the
craft of writing, shaping the structure of a novel, and the
relationship of an author’s mythic landscape to his work.
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| Anne Kimzey
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03-18-2008 |
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This week, Joey Brackner, Director of the Alabama
Center for Traditional Culture, interviews Anne Kimzey, folklorist
with the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
They discuss the state’s master artists whose craft and
music traditions are featured in an exhibit titled Carry On:
Celebrating Twenty Years of the Alabama Folk Arts Apprenticeship
Program.
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| Vassie
Welbeck-Browne and Malik
Browne
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03-11-2008 |
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Diana F. Green, arts in education program
manager, visits with Vassie
Welbeck-Browne and Malik
Browne, after a performance of Langston Hughes: Emperor of the
Muse, which was held for students at Demopolis High School on
Friday, February 28th.
Vassie & Malik are teaching artists from StoryTree
Company, participating with the Alabama
Institute for Education in the Arts, as part of a Dana
Foundation project. This project trains artists in the Black Belt region to
partner with local schools to implement arts integration programs.
Vassie and Malik work primarily in Greene County, where they have
developed an anti-violence/conflict resolution drama program for
high school students.
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| Sena
Jeter Naslund
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03-04-2008 |
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This is a rebroadcast of executive director of the Alabama
Writers’ Forum Jeanie Thompson interviewing Sena
Jeter Naslund, 2000 Harper Lee Award Winner, Hall-Waters Award
Winner and recent participant in last year's 2nd Annual Alabama Book
Festival. Sena Jeter Naslund is the author of five novels, Abundance:
A Novel of Marie Antoinette , Four Spirits, Ahab's Wife; Or,
the Star-Gazer, Sherlock in Love, and The Animal Way to Love,
also two short story collections, The Disobedience of Water and
Ice Skating at the North Pole. Naslund founded and directs the
Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Writing Program in
Louisville, KY and is Writer in Residence at the University of
Louisville. She is currently the Kentucky Poet Laureate.
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| Sudha Raghuram |
02-26-2008 |
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This is a rebroadcast Anne Kimzey, Folklife
Specialist for the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture,
interviewing Sudha Raghuram a dancer in the Indian classical tradition
of Bharatanatyam (Bah-rah-tah Nah-tee-yahm). She is a master artist
with the Alabama State Council on the Arts' folk arts apprenticeship
program. In the interview, Sudha describes this ancient dance
form and tells about teaching it here in Alabama.
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| David Johnson, director of the Alabama
Music Hall of Fame |
02-19-2008 |
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In this week's program, Joey Brackner interviews David Johnson,
director of the Alabama
Music Hall of Fame, about the 2008
Induction Banquet and Awards Show presented February 22nd at the
new Marriott
Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center in Montgomery. Johnson
discusses this year's award recipients and the talent to perform
during the event. Musical examples are included.
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| Tommy McPherson Director of
the Mobile
Museum of Art |
02-12-2008 |
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In this program, Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke interviews
Mobile Museum of Art director Tommy McPherson. McPherson discusses the various collections and educational programs his museum has to offer the public. Also discussed are future exhibits and the museum's connection to the immediate community of contemporary artists in the Gulf Coast area.
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| Playwright Dr.
Billie Jean Young and educator Carrie Mae Johnson |
02-05-2008 |
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In this program, highlighting Black History Month, Steve Grauberger interviews actor and playwright
Dr.
Billie Jean Young, in Yantley Alabama, about her play Oh Mary Don't you Weep: The Margaret Ann Knott
Legacy. Also interviewed is Choctaw, County educator and civil rights activist Carrie Mae Johnson.
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| Ceramic artists Larry Percy and Scott Bennett |
01-29-2008 |
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To help promote the 23rd
Alabama Clay Conference, to be held this year at the University of
Alabama in Tuscaloosa on February 8-10, this program is a rebroadcast
of Georgine Clarke interviewing two Alabama ceramic artists who taught
at the 21st Alabama Clay Conference. Larry
Percy is on the Art faculty at Troy University. His work has been
inspired by the time he has spent in the Southwest, particularly New
Mexico. He talks about that influence of the land in his sculptural,
vessel forms. He also discusses his ways of teaching at a college
level. Scott
Bennett owns Red Dot Gallery in Birmingham, where he produces his
work and also teaches classes. As a relatively new Alabama resident,
Scott talks about the strong clay community of artists in the state
and also describes approaches to his own work.
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| 11th Annual
Capitol Rotunda Four-Book Shapenote Singing |
01-22-2008 |
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This program is a rebroadcast of Alabama shapenote music and its
history in preparation for this year's Annual Capitol Rotunda
Four-Book Shapenote Singing that will be held on Saturday, February
2nd. Due to a scheduling conflict, the singing will not be in the
Capitol Rotunda but at the Alabama Department of Archives and History
off of Union St between Adams and Washington in Montgomery. The
singing will start at 9:30 am and end at 3Pm. The public is welcome to
come and listen or sing. Afterwards, at 3pm, there will be reception
for the exhibition "Carry On: Celebrating Twenty Years of the
Alabama Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program" at the Alabama Artists
Gallery located on the first floor of the RSA Tower at 201 Monroe
Street. For more information call 334-242-4076, x-225.
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| Piddler's
Storytelling Festival |
01-15-2008 |
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In this program Joey Brackner interviews storyteller Donald
Davis and the Brundidge Historical Society's Johnny Steed about
this year's Piddler's
Storytellin' Festival that will feature Sheila
Kay Adams, Kathryn
Tucker Windham, Donald Davis and Andy
Offutt Irwin. Included in the program are stories told by Donald
Davis, Kathryn Tucker Windham and Andy Irwin.
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| Johnny Shines
1991 Radiovisions |
01-08-2008 |
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This program is a broadcast of a 1991 Radiovisions series that features bluesman Johhy Shines. Radiovisions is a production of
Russell Gulley and the Big Wills Arts Council of Ft. Payne
Alabama. The Radiovisions series of programs were initially released as audio cassettes. This particular program is a brief biography of the late Johnny Shines and his music.
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| DeKalb County Veterans
Oral History Project |
01-01-2008 |
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Joey Brackner interviews Robert Moehr, Julia Brown and Jordan
Phillips about documenting the personal narratives of WWII Veterans in DeKalb
County, Alabama.
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| Sounds of the
Christmas Season 2007 |
12-25-2007 |
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This program features Christmas Holiday music of the Mariachi
Garibaldi storytelling of Kathryn
Tucker Windham and the music of The
Tribe of Judah, Bobby
Horton and soprano Bessie Hunter-Shelton.
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| Hannah
Leatherbury |
12-18-2007 |
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Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews
Hannah Leatherbury, E-Services Manager for the Southern Arts Federation. Ms Leatherbury talks about the
Southern Artistry program and other programs and projects offered by
Southern Arts Federation to assist artist and arts organizations in the South.
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| Rosemary
Johnson, Executive Director of the Alabama Dance Council |
12-11-2007 |
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Arts in Education Program Manager, Diana Green, interviews Rosemary Johnson, executive Director of
the Alabama Dance
Council, about the Alabama Dance
Festival which takes place over President’s weekend each January in Birmingham. This January,
the Festival includes tracks for many age groups, a new community program entitled “Dance Across
Birmingham” and performances by Bridgeman Packer
Dance.
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| Cinque Cullar,
Tribe of Judah |
12-4-2007 |
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Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, interviews Cinque Cullar, Artistic Director for the Tribe of Judah. As a part of the Black Belt Arts Initiative, the Council sponsored a contemporary Gospel tour featuring the Tribe of Judah in Selma and Union Springs. The tour included an education component and a public performance.
During this interview, Mr. Cullar offers his definition of Gospel music, talks about his work with the Tribe of Judah, and comments on the Black Belt Gospel Tour.
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| Winky Hicks,
Musician and Instrument Maker |
11-27-2007 |
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In this program Steve Grauberger interviews musician and instrument maker Winky Hicks from Grove Hill, Alabama. Mr. Hicks received a Folk
Arts Apprenticeship grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts to teach the art of bluegrass
banjo to interested students. He discusses his method of teaching and performs a few musical
examples on his banjo. Hicks also describes his craft of mandolin, guitar and banjo construction.
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| Cathey Hendricks, Brenda Lindsey, Deborah Clark, and
Grace Quantock |
11-20-2007 |
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Arts
4 Excellence
is
a school arts initiative sponsored by the Alabama State Council on the
Arts. An
Arts
4 Excellence
school is committed to strong comprehensive arts programs
across the curriculum. Arts
classes spend equal amounts of time creating, performing and
responding to art in order to develop the greatest understanding
possible. Every member of
the school community uses the arts in some way to enhance their own
unique contribution to the learning community.
Three schools in Montgomery County have begun the planning and
professional development required for the program. Diana Green interviews Cathey Hendricks, Brenda Lindsey, and
Deborah Clark who are principals at Carver Elementary, Vaughn Road
Elementary and Brewbaker Intermediate schools, respectively. She also interviews Grace Quantock, a 5th grade
teacher at Vaughn Road Elementary.
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| Congressman Artur
Davis |
11-13-2007 |
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Arts Council Executive Director Al Head interviews Representative Artur
Davis at Cheaha State Park after Congressman Davis spoke to
participants of the annual Bill Bates Leadership Institute. Davis
discusses his fondness for reading and writing as well as his interest
in community revitalization and the role of the arts in public
education.
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| Woodcraft
sculptors Dale Lewis and
Bobby Michelson |
11-06-2007 |
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Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke interviews
Dale Lewis from
Oneonta and Bobby Michelson
from Birmingham, two artist fellowship recipients from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Fellowships are given annually for excellence of work and to assist with career development. These professional, full-time artists work with wood and are furniture builders. Discussions range from uses and types of wood to marketing, design, and ways of commissioning work.
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| Alabama State Gospel Singing
Convention, 2 of 2 |
10-30-2007 |
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This rebroadcast is the second of two programs that Steve Grauberger interviews participants
of the 2004 Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention about convention
history, song writing and publishing, piano playing, and singing
schools. Music examples are also included. This and the previous
program is to help promote the 77th Annual Convention held November
9th and 10th, 2007 at Trinity Baptist Church in Oxford Alabama. For
more information contact Lonnie Hilley at 256-237-5761 or email
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| Alabama State Gospel Singing
Convention, 1 of 2 |
10-23-2007 |
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This rebroadcast is the first of two programs of Steve Grauberger interviewing participants of the 2004 Alabama State
Gospel Singing Convention about convention history, song writing and
publishing, and singing schools. Music examples are also
included. This program is to help promote the 77th Annual Convention
held November 9th and 10th, 2007 at Trinity Baptist Church in Oxford
Alabama. For more information contact Lonnie Hilley at 256-237-5761 or
email
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| Mozell Benson and
Sylvia Stephens of Opelika |
10-16-2007 |
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In this program Anne Kimzey, Folklorist with the
Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews mother and daughter
quilters Mozell Benson and Sylvia Stephens of Opelika. They
discuss their participation in the State Arts Council’s Folk Arts
Apprenticeship program and share family memories of quilting and farm
life in Lee County. Mrs. Benson also talks about her
experience of being selected by Auburn University’s College of
Architecture, Design and Construction to have a quilt studio designed
and built for her by college students. Mozell Benson is a
nationally recognized quilter, having received a National Heritage
Fellowship in 2001 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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| Cary McQueen
Morrow, Executive Director of the Center for
Arts Management and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University |
10-09-2007 |
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Each summer the Council sponsors the Bill Bates
Leadership Institute, a retreat for arts professionals in the state.
This gathering provides an opportunity for arts professionals to meet
and to discuss broad issues and common interests. Barbara
Edwards, Deputy Director of the Council, interviews Cary McQueen
Morrow, a featured speaker for the 2007 Bill Bates Leadership
Institute. Ms. Morrow is the Executive Director of the Center for Arts
Management and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University. In the
interview, Ms. Morrow shares information on the work of the Center for
Arts Management and Technology and discusses trends in software
applications and social networking technology.
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| Claire
Robitaille and Christopher McNulty |
10-02-2007 |
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Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke
interviews Claire Robitaille from Magnolia Springs and
Christopher
McNulty from Auburn, two artist fellowship recipients from the
Alabama State Council on the Arts. Fellowships are given annually for
excellence of work and to assist with career development. Claire is a
mixed media sculptor, using fiber techniques, metal and seed beads in
her constructions. Christopher is on the faculty at Auburn University
and produces drawings as well as wood sculpture. Discussions range
from international exhibitions to concepts in creating art to ways of
teaching.
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| Keith
Cromwell, Director, Red
Mountain Theatre |
09-25-2007 |
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Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director of the Council, interviews
Keith
Cromwell. Mr. Cromwell is the Executive Director of Red Mountain Theatre in Birmingham and the Council’s 2008 Arts Administration Fellowship recipient. In the interview, Mr. Cromwell talks about his career as a professional theatre artist and the impact of the Arts Administration Fellowship on his career and Red Mountain Theatre.
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| Visual Arts Achievement Awards |
09-18-2007 |
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Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke interviews six student participants in
the Council's annual Visual Arts Achievement Program. The Program provides a statewide exhibition
competition in six districts statewide, culminating in an exhibition in the Alabama Artists Gallery
in Montgomery. It also provides a portfolio jury review resulting in $500 college scholarships.
Students interviewed on the program include three scholarship recipients as well as the best in
show winner and the teacher of the year, all from Bob Jones High School in Madison. Also on the
program are two scholarship recipients from BTW Magnet School in Montgomery. The Council considers
Arts in Education Projects to be a highest priority.
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| Amita Bhakta |
09-11-2007 |
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In this program Anne Kimzey, Folklorist with the
Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Amita Bhakta a rangoli
artist in Florence. An art that comes from India, rangoli
are temporary designs drawn in rice flour and other materials to
decorate the floors and courtyards of the homes in India. Ms. Bhakta,
who is originally from India, received a Folk Arts Apprenticeship
grant from the State Arts Council to teach rangoli to children
in the Indian community in Florence as a way of passing on this
tradition and connecting them with their cultural heritage.
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| Charlie Louvin of the Louvin
Brothers on Radiovision |
09-04-2007 |
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This program is the broadcast of a 1989 Radiovisions production.
It features Charlie Louvin of the legendary Louvin Brothers of Sand Mountain. The program includes a
narrative history of the Louvins as well as various recordings made by them. Russell Gulley and the
Big Wills Arts Council of Ft. Payne Alabama produced the Radiovisions series that were released
originally on cassette
tape.
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| Peggy
Denniston and Shelia Hagler
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08-28-2007 |
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This program is a rebroadcast with Diana
Green interviewing writer Peggy Denniston and photographer,
Shelia Hagler, and two middle school students. Sheila Hagler
is the Alabama State Council on the Arts 2007 Fellowship recipient
for photography. An incredible photographer in her own right, Sheila
partners with Peggy to encourage new photographers in Bayou La Batre,
a shrimping community once ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. A selection
of student work created after the storm traveled to Chicago as part
of a project called Eyes of the Storm – a Katrina Hurricane Relief
Effort, and subsequently entered the Photography Hall of Fame in
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| William Christenberry 2 |
08-21-2007 |
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Joey
Brackner, Director of the Alabama
Center for Traditional Culture, interviews Alabama native, and
renowned artist, William
Christenberry at his home in Washington D.C. This is the second of two interviews with Christenberry discussing his life’s work as an artist that includes his acclaimed photographic documentation of rural Alabama,
his unique dream
house sculptures,
the Klan Tableau, and ongoing mixed-media work.
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| William Christenberry 1 |
08-14-2007 |
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Joey
Brackner, Director of the Alabama
Center for Traditional Culture, interviews Alabama native, and
renowned artist, William
Christenberry at his home in Washington D.C. This is the first of two interviews with Christenberry
discussing his life's work as an artist that includes drawing and
painting as well as his unique dream
house sculptures and acclaimed photographic documentation of rural
Alabama.
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| Steve Miller interview 2 |
08-07-2007 |
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In this second program, Anne Kimzey, Folklorist with the
Alabama State Council on the Arts, continues a conversation with
professor Steve
Miller, coordinator of the Book Arts
Program at the
University of Alabama. This
is the second of a two-part series where Miller describes hand
papermaking and discusses two recent book projects featured in the Southern
Arts Federation exhibit conceived through American Masterpieces,
an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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| Steve Miller interview 1 |
07-31-2007 |
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In this program, Anne Kimzey,
Folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews
professor Steve Miller, coordinator of the Book Arts
Program at the
University of Alabama. This radio show is the first in a two-part
series, where Miller discusses the art of making books by hand,
including letterpress printing and hand papermaking. Hear how
the faculty and students of Alabama’s Book Arts Program use ancient
technology to produce cutting edge work.
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| Sena
Jeter Naslund |
07-24-2007 |
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Executive director of the Alabama
Writers’ Forum Jeanie Thompson interviews Sena
Jeter Naslund, 2000 Harper Lee Award Winner, Hall-Waters Award
Winner and recent participant in the 2nd Annual Alabama Book
Festival. Sena Jeter Naslund is the author of five novels, Abundance:
A Novel of Marie Antoinette , Four Spirits, Ahab's Wife; Or,
the Star-Gazer, Sherlock in Love, and The Animal Way to Love,
also two short story collections, The Disobedience of Water and
Ice Skating at the North Pole. Naslund founded and directs the
Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Writing Program in
Louisville, KY and is Writer in Residence at the University of
Louisville. She is currently the Kentucky Poet Laureate.
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| Dr. Jim
Brown and National Heritage Award Recipient John Henry Mealing |
07-17-2007 |
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Folkways radio
program by Anne Kimzey on Gandy Dancers (real media)
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Rebroadcast of folklore researcher and history professor Jim Brown of Samford
University narrating an interview with "Gandy Dance Caller"
John Henry Mealing who was a National Heritage Recipient. The ASCA show
is edited from the original Samford University WVSU Radio Production
done the 1980s.
For more on Gandy Dancers.
Gandy Dancers
film on folkstreams.net
Click
here for Gandy Presentation by Maggie Holtzberg.
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| Fred
Fussell Folklorist |
07-10-2007 |
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Rebroadcast of Joey Brackner, Director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture,
interviewing folklorist Fred Fussell about his many years documenting the rich
folklife of the Chattahoochee Valley.
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| Andy
Meadows- photography teacher at Booker T Washington Magnet,
Montgomery |
07-03-2007 |
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This program is a rebroadcast of a 2005 program of Ryan Hora and Mary Louise Thrower, Booker T Washington (BTW) Magnet
students, interviewing their photography
teacher Andy Meadows as well as two fellow students.
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| Ruth Wyers, traditional Christian
Harmony singing school teacher |
06-26-2007 |
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Folklife
Specialist Anne Kimzey interviews traditional Christian Harmony
singing-school teacher and
singer, Ruth Wyers, about the upcoming singing school to be held at
Pleasant Hill Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Centerville,
Alabama July 9-13 & 16-20, 2007 7:00 - 9:00 p.m..
The school will culminate with an all-day Christian Harmony singing
Sunday, July 22nd starting at 9:30 a.m..
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| David
Johnson, director of the Alabama
Music Hall of Fame |
06-19-2007 |
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Rebroadcast
of Joey
Brackner interviewing David Johnson, director of the Alabama
Music Hall of Fame, about the contributions of Alabamians to
American Music
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| Helen
Keller Festival of the Arts |
06-12-2007 |
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Georgine
Clarke and Steve Grauberger visited the Helen Keller Festival of the
Arts in June, early on a Saturday morning as the artists were
setting up their booths for displaying and selling their artwork.
The conversations with artists and festival organizers give
listeners an idea of what to expect at the many outdoor art shows in
Alabama. Artists talk about the importance of such shows and the
ways they make their work available to the public. This
year, 2007, the festival is held June 20th to the 24th in Tuscumbia.
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| Storyteller, Wanda Johnson
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06-05-2007 |
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Yvette Daniel and Diana Green interview Fellowship Award winner
Wanda Johnson about her work as a professional storyteller in the Rural School
Touring Program for the Arts Council. Wanda shares
with us how she began her professional career in her hometown of
Prichard, Alabama, absorbing the colorful history and rituals of a
southern town. She has gained national
recognition as her professional career as a storyteller has taken her
from conventions, to the court room to summer camps and corporate
retreats. In this interview Wanda challenges her audience to take
pride in the lessons, rituals and experiences of life as she
encourages young and old to appreciate their personal stories as
wealth that should be passed on and preserved.
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| Come
Home It's Suppertime
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05-29-2007 |
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Joey Brackner interviews musician
Lennie Trawick, Sarah Bowden and Sherrill Tatum about the play
"Come Home, It's
Suppertime," a production
of the We Piddle Around Theatre of Brundidge, AL.
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| Bluesman Willie King, Freedom
Creek Blues Festival
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05-22-2007 |
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To help promote the 2007 Freedom Creek Blues Festival on May 25-26,
this program is a rebroadcast of Rebecca Ryals interviewing
Willie King at the 2003 Freedom Creek Blues Festival
in Old Memphis near
Aliceville, includes musical examples.
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| Jazzmin Almaz Franklin, Khadijah Ameerah Robinson
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05-15-2007 |
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Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation contest, sponsored by
the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. Seven private and public high schools, including more than 70
English classes throughout the five county river region, participated
in the program this year. Diana
Green, Arts in Education Program Manager, interviews a number of
people involved in the program. Winner of the original poetry
competition, Jazzmin Almaz Franklin, a senior from Booker T.
Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, recites her impassioned
poem entitled The Question My Conscience Plagues Me With. State Champion Khadijah Ameerah Robinson, a senior at
Loveless Academic Magnet Program in Montgomery, recites Robert
Frost’s, Birches.
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| Jerry "Boogie" McCain, Alabama Folk Heritage
Award Winner
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05-08-2007 |
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This program is a rebroadcast to help promote the Alabama State Council on the Arts' "A Celebration of the Arts Awards" held May 16th,
2007 at the Davis Theater in Montgomery where bluesman Jerry "Boogie" McCain
received the Alabama Folk Heritage Award. In the radio program Folklife Specialist Anne Kimzey interviewed Jerry McCain about his life and music career at his home in Gadsden Alabama. Musical examples are included in the program.
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| George
Washington Carver Arts and Crafts Festival
|
05-01-2007 |
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Steve Grauberger interviews Dr. Charles Thompson, President of the Tuskegee
Area Chamber of Commerce; Elaine Thompson, retired Art professor
at Tuskegee University and past State Arts Council board member; and
National Park Ranger Shirley Baxter about the annual George
Washington Carver Arts and Crafts Festival held in downtown
Tuskegee.
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| Glenn Dasher, Chairman of the Art Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Casey Downing, professional artist from Mobile.
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4-24-2007 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews two important Alabama sculptors, Glenn Dasher, Chairman of the Art Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Casey Downing, professional artist from Mobile. Topics range from commissioning public art to the importance of art in the schools to ways of teaching student artists. Dasher discusses his approach to making art, producing pieces that combine elements that appear to come from antiquity with contemporary elements. Downing explains the process of casting bronze figurative sculpture and also constructing abstract forms with stainless steel. Both provide insight into the philosophy and ways that artists work.
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Jay
Lamar, director of the Caroline
Marshall Draughon Center for Arts and Humanities in the
College
of
Liberal Arts
at
Auburn
University
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4-17-2007 |
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Jeanie
Thompson, executive director of the Alabama
Writers' Forum shares a lively conversation with Jay
Lamar, director of the Caroline
Marshall Draughon Center for Arts and Humanities in the
College
of
Liberal Arts
at Auburn
University, about the upcoming Alabama
Book Festival. The Book Festival is a project of the
Alabama
Center
for the Book, one of the programs of the
Draughon
Center
and takes place April 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., in Old
Alabama Town in
Montgomery
. The family event featuring 73 authors and artists is free and open
to the public.
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| Jeanie Thompson, executive
director of the Alabama
Writers' Forum interviews Marlin Barton
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04-10-2007 |
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Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama
Writers' Forum interviews Marlin Barton, 2007 Alabama State
Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship Recipient. Barton is
the author of two short story collections, The Dry Well and Dancing at
the River, and a novel, The Dry Well. In addition to writing
prize-winning fiction, Barton teaches in the Alabama Writers’
Forum’s Writing Our Stories program, a juvenile justice and the arts
initiative now in its tenth year. Thompson and Barton discuss the
writing process, and how teaching juvenile offenders has impacted
Barton’s work
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| Montgomery Symphony Orchestra manager Helen
Steineker.
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04-03-2007 |
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Yvette Daniel, Performing Arts Program Manager, interviews Helen
Steineker, Manager of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra in recognition
of the 2006-2007 30th Anniversary Season. The Montgomery
Symphony Orchestra began as a community orchestra in 1976
with 30 musicians and a part-time director under the auspices of the
City of Montgomery Parks and recreation Department. Twenty-eight
years later, the MSO has 75 members, a full-time maestro and manager,
and operates under the guidance of an independent Board
and League.
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| The Official Alabama State
Fiddling Championship
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3-27-2007 |
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This program is to help promote the 2nd Annual, Official Alabama State Fiddling Championship in Huntsville
that will be held during the Panoply Festival on April 28, 2007. At
last year's event Steve Grauberger interviews co-producers of the competition, Alabama State
Representative Mike Ball and Mark Ralph about the history of
this fiddling competition. He also interviews last year's Huntsville Arts Council President Beth Wise, as well as various
contestants involved in last year's 1st annual event. Musical examples recorded at that time are also included in the program.
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| Randy Shoults, Community Arts and
Literature Program Manager
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3-20-2007 |
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Joey Brackner, Director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture interviews Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Shoults describes various aspects of the
grant programs that he manages.
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| 2007
Alabama Dance Festival
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03-13-2007 |
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Arts in Education Program Manager, Diana Green, interviews Anne Green
Gilbert, a special guest at the Alabama Dance Festival.
Rosemary Johnson, executive Director of the Alabama Dance
Council, in partnership with Martha
Lockett, executive director of the Alabama Institute for
Education in the Arts, have provided this dance education workshop to
classroom teachers and dance educators statewide. Ms. Gilbert is the
Artistic Director of Kaleidoscope, a children’s creative
movement dance company in Seattle, Washington and is known as one of
the leading dance educators in the country. She has developed “brain
appropriate” dance instruction and shares it with teachers across
the nation. Diana Green
interviews Rosemary Johnson, Anne Green Gilbert, Martha Lockett, and 4th
grade teacher Lisa Moran and occupational therapist, Kayla Briggs,
about the education track offered at the dance festival in Birmingham
on January 13, 2007.
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| William Cobb
|
03-06-2007 |
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Jeanie
Thompson, executive director of the Alabama
Writers' Forum, interviews William Cobb, recipient of the 2007
Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer. Thompson and
Cobb discuss his novels and plays, and his latest work The Hermit King
(from Livingston Press). Cobb receives his award at the Alabama
Writers Symposium on May 4th in Monroeville.
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| George
Lindsey, Alabama State Council on the Arts’
2005 Distinguished Artist Award Recipient
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02-27-2007 |
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To help promote the upcoming 10th Annual George
Lindsey Film Festival this program is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner
interviewing television legend and Jasper native George
Lindsey about his roots, his career and his current activities. Mr.
Lindsey is the recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts’
2005 Distinguished Artist Award.
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| George Wallace: The Clayton
Years
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02-20-2007 |
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Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager, travels
to Clayton, Alabama and talks to Rebecca Beasley about The Barbour
County Governor's Trail and their upcoming stage production, "Wallace:
The Clayton Years," a play by Ty
Adams that depicts the early career of George Wallace. "
Also included in the interview are Representative Billy Beasley and
Alva Lambert, who portrays Governor Wallace in the play.
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| Joey Brackner, Director of
the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture
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02-13-2007 |
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Anne Kimzey interviews Joey Brackner about his newly published book, Alabama
Folk Pottery, recently released on University
of Alabama Press. Brackner discusses various aspects detailed in
the publication.
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Brian Jones, Regional
Director-Mountains Region in the Marketing/Group Travel Division at
the Alabama Bureau of Tourism & Travel.
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02-06-2007 |
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Joey Brackner interviews Brian
Jones, a Regional Director in the Marketing/Group Travel Division
of the Alabama Bureau of Tourism &
Travel. Brian discusses the
Tourism & Travel promotion of the Year of the Arts campaign. He
describes materials produced for and attributes of the Year of the
Arts.
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| Elyzabeth
Wilder, Playwright
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01-30-2007 |
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Steve Grauberger interviews playwright and screenwriter
Elyzabeth
Wilder about her play Gees
Bend, produced by the Alabama
Shakespeare Festival (ASF). The play premiered Jan 19th to Feb
11, 2007 to a sold-out house. The play developed from Wilder's interest in the women quilters of Gee's Bend and her participation in
the Southern Writer's
Project at ASF. Wilder also talks about growing up in Mobile
and her education in New York City as an actress and a playwright.
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| Alabama
State Capitol Rotunda Four-Book Shape-Note Singing 2006
|
01-23-2007 |
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This program promotes the 10th annual Capitol Rotunda, Four-Book, Shape Note Singing to be held in the Alabama State Capitol Rotunda on Feb 3rd starting at 9:30 AM. Included in the program are descriptions of the four different Alabama shape-note books used in the singing and recorded musical examples from past Rotunda singings.
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| The Thomas
Sisters Singers from Alexander City
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01-16-2007 |
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Steve Grauberger interviews the Thomas Sisters Singers from Alexander City.
Margie and Bernice Thomas have been a singing gospel music for over 60 years
in and around Alexander City, performing on radio and TV as early as the 1950s.
In December, shortly after this interview was taped, Bernice Thomas passed.
Included in the program are recently recorded songs sung by Margie and
Bernice Thomas, and Margie's daughter, Phyllis.
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| Eric
Essix
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01-09-2007 |
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Rebroadcast of Barbara Edwards interviewing
Jazz musician Eric Essix about his work with the rural schools
touring program and his work as a musician
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| Kimberly
Ramsey and Shakespeare Can Be Fun |
01-02-2007 |
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Rebroadcast
of Diana
Green interviewing Kimberly Ramsey, an English teacher from Holy
Cross Episcopal School in Montgomery, about a new arts education
program entitled Shakespeare Can Be Fun, a program
which began at a teacher workshop in the summer of 2005. Shakespeare
Can Be Fun is a program that involves all 4th, 5th and 6th
grade students at Holy Cross Episcopal School in the study and performance of Shakespeare. |
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| Quinton
Cockrell, ASCA’s 2006-2007 Theatre Fellowship recipient |
12-26-2006
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Yvette Daniel, Performing Arts Program Manager, interviews Quinton
Cockrell, ASCA’s 2006-2007 Theatre Fellowship recipient. Discussed
are his plans to develop new works for the American stage and about
his career as a professional actor in New York and in regional
theatres across the country.
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| Mariachi
Garibaldi, Kathryn
Tucker Windham, The
Tribe of Judah, Bobby
Horton and Bessie Hunter-Shelton.
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12-19-2006
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This
radio show features music of the Mariachi
Garibaldi storytelling of Kathryn
Tucker Windham and the music of The
Tribe of Judah, Bobby
Horton and soprano Bessie Hunter-Shelton.
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| Shana Berger
and
Nathan Purath from the
Coleman Center for Arts and Culture in York, Alabama |
12-12-2006
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Georgine
Clarke, Visual Arts Program Manager, interviews Shana Berger,
Executive Director and Nathan Purath, Artistic Director of the Coleman
Center for Arts and Culture in York, Alabama. Located in Sumter County
in West Alabama, York has a population of approximately 2,600
residents. The projects of the Center range from a public art, artist
in residence program to regular exhibitions of local and national
artists' work. Unique programs, particularly in photography, are
provided for children.
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| Jacky
Jack White and the Sucarnochee
Revue |
12-05-2006 |
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Joey
Brackner interviews Jacky Jack White of the Sucarnochee
Revue. The Revue, a
performance series of southern music is performed at Bibb Graves
Auditorium on the campus of the Universityof
West Alabama and broadcast throughout the region via radio.
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| Mary
Settle Cooney, Director of the Tennessee
Valley Art Association |
11-28-2006 |
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Georgine
Clarke interviews Mary Settle Cooney, Director of the Tennessee Valley
Art Association programs. She discusses the Art Center and Ritz
Theater as well as the role of the arts in education and community
development.
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| William Bailey |
11-21-2006 |
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Joey Brackner interviews William Bailey of Poarch Creek Indians. Mr. Bailey discusses surviving cultural traditions among Creek Indians in southwest
Alabama
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| Bill
McGee and George Culver |
11-14-2006 |
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Randy Shoults, Community Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State
Council on the Arts, sits down with Director George Culver and board
member Bill McGee of the Antique
Talladega and The Ritz Theatre. They discuss the past, present and
future of their organization, the Ritz Theatre and the impact that it
has had of the City of Talladega. George Culver is also a recent
recipient of an Alabama State Council on the Arts Administration
Fellowship.
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| Bluesman
George Connor |
11-07-2006 |
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Joey Brackner interviews blues musician George Connor of Aliceville. Mr. Connor recounts his experiences playing the blues in Chicago, on the road, and in Alabama.
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| Clayton
Bass |
10-31-2006 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews Clayton Bass, President and CEO of the Huntsville Museum of
Art. The discussion ranges from the roll of the Museum in community economic development to services
for artists to the general nature of programs at the Museum. Included is information about the exhibition
schedule, educational approaches to interpreting objects on exhibit, classes, and even the Museum
restaurant and shop. Bass views activities in the Museum as being a complete experience for the visitor.
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| Dr. Bill Ferris |
10-24-2006 |
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Joey Brackner interviews folklorist Bill Ferris of the University of North Carolina about southern culture and his experiences as director of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss.
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| Whitney
Green, Black Belt Arts Project Coordinator for the Black Belt
Community Initiative in Selma. |
10-17-2006 |
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Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, interviews Whitney Green, the
Coordinator for the Council's Black Belt Arts Initiative. Whitney
talks about her job as the Black Belt Arts Coordinator and the
exciting projects and activities of the black belt region.
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| Gee's Bend quilter, Lucy
Mingo |
10-10-2006 |
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Folklife Specialist Anne Kimzey interviews Gee's Bend quilter Lucy Mingo about her life and experiences quilting for her family and friends. Also interviewed in the program is her daughter Polly Raymond. Mingo's quilts are included in the nationally
toured art exhibit, The Quilts of Gee's Bend, and publications derived from the exhibition. She is a master artist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts' folk arts apprenticeship program.
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| David
Johnson, director of the Alabama
Music Hall of Fame |
10-03-2006 |
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Joey
Brackner interviews David Johnson, director of the Alabama
Music Hall of Fame, about the contributions of Alabamians to
American Music
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| Helen
Keller Festival of the Arts |
09-26-2006 |
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Georgine
Clarke and Steve Grauberger visited the Helen Keller Festival of the
Arts in June, early on a Saturday morning as the artists were
setting up their booths for displaying and selling their artwork.
The conversations with artists and festival organizers give
listeners an idea of what to expect at the many outdoor art shows in
Alabama. Artists talk about the importance of such shows and the
ways they make their work available to the public.
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| Donna
Walker-Kuhne |
09-19-2006 |
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Barbara
Edwards interviews Donna
Walker-Kuhne. Walker-Kuhne,
recognized as the nation's foremost expert on Audience
Diversification by the Arts and Business Council, was a presenter at
the 2007 Bill Bates Leadership Institute. In the interview Walker-Kuhne
discusses practical strategies and methods to engage diverse
communities in the arts and the importance of marketing to diverse
audiences.
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| Archive of Alabama Folk
Culture |
09-12-2006 |
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Joey
Brackner interviews Joyce Cauthen of the Alabama
Folklife Association, Debbie Pendleton of the Alabama
Department of Archives and History and archivist Trey Bunn about
the new Archive of Alabama Folk Culture.
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| Radiovisions
Radio Rebroadcast : J.
R. "Pap" Baxter |
09-05-2006 |
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Radiovisions Program MP3
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Re-edited broadcast of the
1991 Radiovisions program produced by Russell
Gulley and the Big Wills Arts Council. The program
features the songs of J.
R. "Pap" Baxter and an extended interview by Al
Malone, Baxter's nephew,
about the life and time of this well-known Southern Gospel singer/songwriter
and publisher.
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| Interview
with poet Marlin Barton and teacher Sandra Whatley-Washington about
DYS "Writing Our Stories Project" |
08-22-2006 |
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Rebroadcast
from 2004 of Alabama
Writers' Forum Executive Director Jeanie Thompson interviewing
teaching writer Marlin Barton and Department
of Youth Services teacher Sandra Whatley-Washington about the
innovative Writing
Our Stories: Anti-Violence Creative Writing Program, now
in its ninth year.
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| Yvette
Daniel |
08-15-2006 |
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Anne Kimzey, Folklorist
with the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, interviews Yvette
Daniel Performing Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State Council
on the Arts. Ms. Daniel discusses how the agency's
performing arts program supports high quality performances of music
dance and theater in Alabama and assists performing arts
organizations and artists throughout the state.
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| George
Jones |
08-08-2006 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews George Jones, newly selected recipient of the
Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in
Craft. Jones is a fourth-generation broommaker whose family begain making functional brooms in 1932 to help with the economic challenges of the depression. Using time-honored traditional tools and materials, he has begun to create one-of-a-kind pieces which are very sculptural in form. Jones markets his work at art festivals throughout the region.
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| Cooper-Hewitt
and the City of
Neighborhoods |
08-01-2006 |
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Gina Clifford interviews
Hettie Jordan Vilanova, Fran Nagy and Caroline Payson about
the exciting three day workshop, City of Neighborhoods that
took place in Birmingham, June 15-17, 2006. This workshop was an
unique opportunity for the residents of Avondale, to explore their
neighborhood to better plan for its future. It was sponsored
by DesignAlabama in partnership with the Smithsonian's
Cooper
Hewitt National Design Musuem, Alabama Alliance for Arts
Education,
MainStreet Birmingham, American Architectural Foundation and the
Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham.
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| ASCA Apprenticeship Program |
07-25-2006 |
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Rebroadcast
of Folklife Specialist Anne Kimzey
interviewing Joey
Brackner about the Folklife Master Apprenticeship program
that he
administers. Music examples of traditional master artists are
included. |
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| Poet
Peter Huggins, 2006
Alabama State Council on the Arts Artist Literature Fellow
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07-18-2006 |
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Rebroadcast
of Jeanie
Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers'
Forum,
interviewing poet Peter Huggins. Huggins is one of two 2006 Alabama
State Council on the Arts Artist Literature Fellows. A native
of Louisiana, he teaches in the English Department at Auburn
University and his books of poems are Necessary Acts (River City
Publishing, 2004), Blue Angels (River City Publishing, 2001) and
Hard Facts (Livingston Press, 1998). Huggins' poems have
appeared in more than 100 journals and magazines. He is also the
author of a forthcoming novel for middle readers, In the Company of
Owls. Huggins' first picture book, called Trosclair and the
Alligator, is just out from Star Bright Books in New York. |
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| Ceramic
Artists, Larry Percy and Scott Bennett |
07-11-2006 |
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Georgine
Clarke interviews two Alabama ceramic artists who taught at the 21st
Alabama Clay Conference. Larry Percy is on the Art faculty at Troy
University. His work has been inspired by the time he has spent in
the Southwest, particularly New Mexico. He talks about that influence
of the land in his sculptural, vessel forms. He also discusses his ways
of teaching at a college level. Scott Bennett owns Red Dot Gallery
in Birmingham, where he produces his work and also teaches classes.
As a relatively new Alabama resident, Scott talks about the strong
clay community of artists in the state and also describes approaches
to his own work. |
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| Kimberly
Ramsey and Shakespeare Can Be Fun |
07-04-2006 |
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Diana
Green interviews Kimberly Ramsey, an English teacher from Holy
Cross Episcopal School in Montgomery, about a new arts education
program entitled Shakespeare Can Be Fun, a program
which began at a teacher workshop in the summer of 2005. Shakespeare
Can Be Fun is a program that involves all 4th, 5th and 6th
grade students at Holy Cross Episcopal School in the study and
performance of Shakespeare. |
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| David
Ivey and Jeff Sheppard and Camp Fasola
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06-27-2006 |
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Rebroadcast
of Joey Brackner
interviewing
David Ivey and Jeff Sheppard about the annual Camp
Fasola held each year at Camp Lee near Anniston Alabama. |
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| Bessie
Hunter-Shelton
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06-20-2006 |
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Yvette
Daniel, Performing Arts Program Manager interviews Ms. Bessie Hunter-Shelton, Music Instructor/Choir Director at
Lawson State Community College in
Birmingham. Ms. Shelton shares insights regarding how higher education impacts the students of today, especially those preparing for a career in the field of music. She stresses the importance of ones development as a solo artist, and about valuing ones natural gifts. |
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| Dennis
George, Fyffe Alabama
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06-13-2006 |
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Steve
Grauberger interviews Dennis George and Bill Henson about an
old-time music and bluegrass program that teaches fiddle,
mandolin, guitar and banjo to beginning students after school in Fyffe,
Alabama, funded, in part, by an ASCA Master-Apprentice
grant. Included in the program is information on the annual Fyffe
Fiddling Contest as well as examples of music performed by Dennis George. |
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| Peggy
Denniston and Shelia Hagler
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06-06-2006 |
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Diana
Green interviews writer Peggy Denniston and photographer, Shelia
Hagler, founders of Merging our Cultures, a program that
provides creative writing and hands-on experience with photography
for students in South Mobile County. Each student uses a camera and
a darkroom to create their own photographs. These photographs then
become the inspiration for the student’s creative writing. Student work is exhibited in contests, museums and schools.
A selection of student work recently traveled to Chicago as
part of a project called Eyes of the Storm – a Katrina
Hurricane Relief Effort. Alabama artists, Peggy
Denniston and Sheila Hagler will be interviewed along with two of
their middle school students. |
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| Poets,
Greg Pape
and Frank X. Walker
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05-30-2006 |
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Alabama
Writers' Forum Executive Director Jeanie Thompson interviews two
poets who participated in the inaugural Alabama
Book Festival, April 22, in Montgomery. Montana poet Greg
Pape, author of American
Flamingo, winner of the 2004 Crab
Orchard Review
Open Competition Award and other works, talks about teaching at
the University of Alabama as well as his recent visit to Julia
Tutwiler Prison with the Auburn
Prison Arts and Education Project. Kentucky poet Frank
X. Walker, who recently received a prestigious Lannan
Fellowship and is a founding member of the Affrilachian poets
and a Cave Canem Fellow,
reads new works from Black Box, his latest collection from Old
Cove Press. |
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| Steve Miller MFA Program Coordinator, Associate professor,
letterpress printing & hand papermaking.
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05-23-2006 |
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Steve Miller MFA Program Coordinator, Associate professor,
letterpress printing & hand papermaking, interviews Glenn House
Sr., a founder of the BookArts
Program at University of Alabama School of Library Information
Studies. The program is edited from a StoryCorps
project interview made at the Kentuck Arts Center, Northport, AL in
2005. That recording is available in its entirety here
(click this link if you want to hear it). Glenn House Sr.
has spent a lifetime making art. From his studio in Gordo, Alabama,
he spins clay objects, handmade paper, and printing projects. Miller
questions House about these subjects as well as his work with the MFA program in Book Arts at the University of Alabama. |
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| Dr.
Scott Meyer, Professor of Art at the University of Montevallo
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05-16-2006 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews
Dr. Scott Meyer, Professor of Art at the University of Montevallo
about the unique clay furnace called an anagama kiln. Dr. Meyer
describes how this 40 foot long brick structure takes a week using
wood to fire about 1000 pieces of clay pottery and sculpture. Its
design is based on a traditional Japanese method of firing pottery.
Dr. Meyer built this kiln and fires it several times a year,
bringing potters from throughout the Southeast as well as providing
a unique learning opportunity for students at Montevallo. The kiln
was a focal point of the recent 21st annual Alabama Clay Conference
held near Montevallo. |
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| Thaddeus
Davis and Tanya Wideman-Davis
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05-09-2006 |
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Arts
in Education Program Manager Diana Green interviews Thaddeus Davis
and Tanya Wideman-Davis. Thaddeus is a dancer and
choreographer from Montgomery, Alabama who has successfully launched
his career in New York City and founded his own dance company,
Wideman/Davis Dance. Thaddeus has returned to Alabama with his lovely
wife, Tanya. They perform an original work commissioned by
Auburn University Women's Studies, based on the lives of the women
in Gee's Bend called The
Bends of Life. He has just completed a tour of five Black
Belt counties, where both he and his wife taught master classes in
dance to children in the schools. |
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| Birmingham
Children's Theater
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05-02-2006 |
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Donna
Russell Director of the Alabama
Alliance for Arts in Education interviews company members from
the Birmingham
Children’s Theatre (BCT) about its upcoming 60th anniversary
celebration, and the various programs offered by the company. Donna
speaks with Pat
Anderson-Flowers, the artistic director; Shannon
Chambliss, the marketing director and Alexa McElroy, director
of education outreach regarding the quality of the programs offered
for families and students. |
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| Conecuh
People
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04-25-2006 |
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Randy
Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager travels to
Union Springs to interview participants in the annually held
community play, Conecuh
People, a
poignant story of one boy's coming of age in rural Alabama in the
1950. The play, adapted by Ty Adams is based on the book, Conecuh
People: Words Of Life From The Alabama Black Belt, by
Bullock County native, Wade Hall. The play is staged at the Red Door
Theatre in downtown Union Springs April 27,28,29 and May 4,5,7. For
further information call 334/737-8687. |
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| 1st
Annual Alabama Book Festival 04-22-2006
This inaugural event takes place April 22 in Montgomery’s Old Alabama Town from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Free and open to the public, the event features more than 50 writers and performers from across Alabama and elsewhere
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04-18-2006 |
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Alabama
Writers Forum Director Jeanie Thompson interviews Conner Henton
of the Alabama
Center for the Book about the upcoming Alabama
Book Festival. Also in this program, Thompson interviews one of the featured writers to be at the Festival,
Wayne
Greenhaw (Montgomery), 2006 Harper Lee Award recipient and author of
The Thunder of
Angels, and more than 16 other works. |
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| Bullfrog
Jumped
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4-11-2006 |
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ACTC
Director Joey Brackner inteviews Alabama
Folklife Association Director Joyce Cauthen about the new CD
release called Bullfrog Jumped, culled from original
recordings made in Alabama by Byron Arnold in the late 1940s.. |
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| Rick
Lowe, Founding Director of Project
Row Houses in Houston, Texas
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04-04-2006 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews
Rick Lowe, an Alabama native, is founding director of Project
Row Houses in Houston, Texas, an arts and cultural center
located in 22 historic "shotgun" houses and based on his
innovative concept of the transformative power of art in community
revitalization. Project Row Houses has received national recognition
and provides both art gallery space and a variety of social programs
including the Young
Mothers Residential Program. Lowe will discuss Row Houses as
well as his ideas for a community program along the Civil
Rights Trail in Alabama and the leadership of artists in
re-development of New Orleans. |
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| Poet
Peter Huggins, 2006
Alabama State Council on the Arts Artist Literature Fellow
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03-28-2006 |
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Jeanie
Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers'
Forum,
interviews poet Peter Huggins. Huggins is one of two 2006 Alabama
State Council on the Arts Artist Literature Fellows. A native
of Louisiana, he teaches in the English Department at Auburn
University and his books of poems are Necessary Acts (River City
Publishing, 2004), Blue Angels (River City Publishing, 2001) and
Hard Facts (Livingston Press, 1998). Huggins' poems have
appeared in more than 100 journals and magazines. He is also the
author of a forthcoming novel for middle readers, In the Company of
Owls. Huggins' first picture book, called Trosclair and the
Alligator, is just out from Star Bright Books in New York. |
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| Country
Musician and Songwriter Cast King and apprentice Matt Downer
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03-21-2006 |
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Rebroadcast of Anne Kimzey interviewing musicians Cast King and
Matt Downer from Sand Mountain.
Guitarist and songwriter Cast King and his former band The
Country Drifters recorded with Sun Records of Memphis in the 1950s.
Matt Downer, a young musician, has been working with Mr. King
for a few years to learn his guitar style and to record his music
and life history. During
the program Mr. King performs three of the approximately 500 songs
he has written in his lifetime. |
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Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Performer, Poet and Coordinator for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
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03-14-2006 |
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Randy Shoults, Community Arts, Literature and Design Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Priscilla Hancock Cooper about her literary works. Cooper is the coordinator for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and she is also a teaching writer with the Writing Our Stories Project (Chalkville Campus), an anti-violence creative writing program for incarcerated youth. Writing Our Stories takes place through a cooperative arrangement between the Alabama Writers' Forum and the Alabama Department of Youth Services (DYS).
Cooper is a recent Fellowship recipient, and will read samples from previous literary works, new works and works in progress
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| Anita Miller Garner, 2006 recipient of an Alabama State Arts Council fellowship in fiction.
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03-07-2006 |
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Jeanie
Thompson, Director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, talks with Anita
Miller Garner, 2006 Artist Fellowship recipient in literature. A
native of Rockford Alabama. She is an Associate Professor of English
at University of North Alabama in Florence. She also is chair of the
Forum’s High School Literary Arts Awards Competition that recognizes
young Alabama writers and their schools. Garner’s collection of
short stories, Delectable Waters,
was selected runner up for the Virginia Prize and is currently under
consideration for publication. During her fellowship year she is
working on a novel set in the 1970’s and the present in Alabama.
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| George
Lindsey, Alabama State Council on the Arts’
2005 Distinguished Artist Award Recipient
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02-28-2006 |
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Rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing television legend and Jasper native George
Lindsey about his roots, his career and his current activities. Mr.
Lindsey is the recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts’
2005 Distinguished Artist Award.
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| African American Gospel music scholar,
Dr. Horace Boyer.
Boyer
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02-21-2006 |
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A rebroadcast of Anne Kimzey interviewing African American Gospel music scholar Dr. Horace Boyer.
Boyer visited Alabama in 2004 to lead a music workshop in Lowndes
County in conjunction with an event honoring Civil Rights martyr
Jonathan Daniels. In the radio interview Dr. Boyer discusses Alabama's
rich musical heritage, his own musical roots, and how he came to edit
the African-American hymnal Lift Every Voice and Sing.
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Marcus Johnson, Director of the Bay City Brass Band of Mobile
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02-14-2006 |
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Rebroadcast of Anne Kimzey interviewing
Marcus Johnson of the Bay City Brass Band of Mobile. They discuss
brass band history and music in the Mobile Mardi Gras tradition.
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| Eric
Essix
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02-07-2006 |
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Rebroadcast of Barbara Edwards interviewing
Jazz musician Eric Essix about his work with the rural schools
touring program and his work as a musician
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| Alabama
State Capitol Rotunda Four-Book Shape-Note Singing 2006
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01-31-2006 |
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This program promotes
the 9th annual Capitol Rotunda, Four-Book, Shape Note Singing to be
held in the Alabama State Capitol Rotunda on Feb 4th starting at
9:30 AM. Included in the program are descriptions of the four
different Alabama shape-note books used in the singing and recorded
musical examples from past Rotunda singings.
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| James and Rachel Bryan
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01-24-2006 |
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Rebroadcast of Anne Kimzey
interviewing James Bryan
and Rachel Bryan, a father-daughter, old-time music duo from Mentone.
James Bryan is one of Alabama's best-known fiddlers. He grew up
in Northeast Alabama, the son of an old-time musician. James continues this
musical legacy with his 17 year-old daughter Rachel. On this program, listeners will
hear the Bryan family talk about their music, as well as perform a number of tunes, with
James on fiddle, accompanied by Rachel on guitar.
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| American Gospel Quartet
Convention
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01-17-2006 |
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Steve Grauberger
interviews George Stewart
producer of the American
Gospel Quartet Convention about the 14th annual convention beginning
12-17 and ending 12-21-2006. Also included are interviews with Roscoe
Robinson and Ricky
McKinney from last year's convention. Gospel quartet musical
examples are included.
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| Rosemary
Johnson and Caron Thornton
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01-10-2006 |
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Joey Brackner interviews Rosemary Johnson of the Alabama Dance
Council and Caron Thornton of the Alys
Stephens Center about the upcoming Alabama
Dance Summit. The Alabama Dance Summit is Alabama's premiere
dance event. Presented by the Alabama Dance Council each January, the
Summit is a time of study, exploration, exchange and personal renewal
for the state's broad fellowship of dance students, teachers,
performers and audiences.
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| Artists Craig Wedderspoon
and Melissa Tubbs |
01-03-2006 |
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Georgine Clarke, Visual Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State
Council on the Arts interviews two Alabama artists whose work has
recently been exhibited in the Alabama Artists Gallery. Craig
Wedderspoon is a sculptor and a member of the art faculty at the
University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Melissa Tubbs is a Montgomery
artist who specializes in pen and ink drawings of architectural
structure and detail. Both artists talk about their techniques, choice
of materials and approaches to making and teaching art.
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| Community
Scholars Institute |
12-27-2005 |
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Rebroadcast of Anne
Kimzey, interviewing participants of the Alabama Community Scholars
Institute. Kimzey speaks with Joyce Cauthen director of the
Alabama Folklife Association that sponsors the Community Scholars
Institute. Anne also interviews three of the community scholars: Lori
Sawyer of Atmore, Ana Schuber of Tuscaloosa, and Diane Gerard of
Mobile.
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| Prison
Arts & Education Project of the Center for the Arts and
Humanities at Auburn University. |
12-20-2005 |
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Georgine Clarke, Visual Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State
Council on the Arts, interviews faculty of the Prison
Arts & Education Project of the Center for the Arts and
Humanities at Auburn University. Director Kyes Stevens and Auburn art
professor Barb Bondy discuss poetry, drawing and photography
created in Tutwiler Prison for Women, Frank Lee Youth Center,
Elmore Correctional Facility, two work release units, and the L.I.F.E
Tech facility of Pardons and Paroles. Work from the program has
been on exhibit at the Alabama Artists Gallery in Montgomery and at
Gulf ArtSpace in Fairhope.
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| Sounds
of the Season at the Alabama State Capitol Dec. 12th to the 16th,
2005
No admission to attend
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12-13-2005 |
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This is the second of two programs to promote the ongoing Sounds
of the Season
performance series continuing from Dec. 14th to the 16th, 2005 in
the Alabama
State Capitol Building in Montgomery at the Old Archives
Chamber located on the 2nd floor of the South Wing. In
this program the music of Bobby
Horton (performing Dec. 14), soprano Bessie Hunter-Shelton (Dec
15th), and The
Tribe of Judah chorus (Dec 16th) is featured.
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| Sounds
of the Season at the Alabama State Capitol Dec. 12th to the 16th,
2005
No admission to attend |
12-06-2005 |
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This is the first of two programs to promote the upcoming Sounds
of the Season
performance series to take place Dec. 12th to the 16th, 2005 in
the Alabama
State Capitol Building in Montgomery at the Old Archives
Chamber located on the 2nd floor of the South Wing. This
radio show features music of the Mariachi
Garibaldi (performing Dec. 12), storytelling of Kathryn
Tucker Windham (performing Dec. 13) and the music of Bobby
Horton (performing Dec. 14)
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| Rosa Parks Museum Director
Georgette Norman |
11-29-2005 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews Georgette Norman about the upcoming
celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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| Holguer Pimiento |
11-22-2005 |
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Anne Kimzey, folklorist for the Alabama State Council on the Arts
interviews Colombian singer and guitarist Holguer Pimiento, who now
lives in Birmingham. On the program he discusses his
musical background and performs a variety of Latin-American musical
styles, including the tango, cumbia, and bolero.
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| Gay Powell Hanna, Society of
Arts in Healthcare |
11-15-2005 |
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Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, interviews Gay Powell
Hanna. Dr. Hanna is executive director of the Society of Arts in
Healthcare, Washington, DC. The Society of Arts in Healthcare is an
interdisciplinary membership organization dedicated to the integration
of the arts into healthcare. The arts are becoming an established part
of our nation's healthcare system. Dr. Hanna will share with the
listening audience examples of healthcare arts integration programs
and discuss the importance of these partnerships.
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| Alabama State Gospel Singing
Convention, 2 of 2 |
11-08-2005 |
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In the second of two programs Steve Grauberger interviews participants
of the 2004 Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention about convention
history, song writing and publishing, piano playing, and singing
schools. Music examples are also included. This and the previous
program help promote the 75th Annual Alabama State Gospel Singing
Convention held at Shocco Springs near Talladega on Nov 11 to the 13th
2005.
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| Alabama State Gospel Singing
Convention, 1 of 2 |
11-01-2005 |
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Steve Grauberger interviews participants of the 2004 Alabama State
Gospel Singing Convention about convention history, song writing and
publishing, and singing schools. Music examples are also
included.
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| Author Charlie Rose |
10-25-2005 |
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Randy Shoults interviews Auburn University professor and author
Charlie Rose about his writing career and new novel. Rose reads
excerpts of his work.
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| Dr. Jim
Brown and National Heritage Award Recipient John Henry Mealing |
10-18-2005 |
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Original 37min WVSU program MP3
Folkways radio
program by Anne Kimzey on Gandy Dancers (real media)
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Folklore researcher and history professor Jim Brown of Samford
University narrates an interview with "Gandy Dance Caller"
John Henry Mealing who is a National Heritage Recipient. The ASCA show
is edited from the original Samford University WVSU Radio Production
done the 1980s.
For more on Gandy Dancers.
Gandy Dancers
film on folkstreams.net
Click
here for Gandy Presentation by Maggie Holtzberg.
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| Sherrie
VanPelt |
10-11-2005 |
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Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, conducts an interview with Dr.
Sherrie VanPelt, Executive Director of VSA Arts Alabama. During the
interview Dr. VanPelt discusses the various programs/services offered
by VSA Arts Alabama.
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| George Lindsey |
10-04-2005 |
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Joey Brackner interviews television legend and Jasper native George
Lindsey about his roots, his career and his current activities. Mr.
Lindsey is the recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts’
2005 Distinguished Artist Award.
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| Debbie Bond and Alabama
Blues Project BluesCamp |
09-27-2005 |
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Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, conducts an interview with Debbie
Bond, Executive Director of the Alabama Blues Project. The Alabama
Blues Project is a non-profit organization, located in Tuscaloosa,
which focus on the promotion, documentation and presentation of the
Blues.
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| Fellowship
Award Winner Sara Sanford |
09-20-2005 |
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Yvette Daniel, Performing Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State
Council on the Arts, interviews Sara Elyse Sanford a 2006 Performing
Arts Fellowship recipient. Sara is a company member of the Alabama
Dance Theatre (ADT) where she began as a student dancer seven years
ago. In 2001, she attended the Alabama Governor’s School of
Arts and Technology and won Dance Magazine’s full scholarship to the
National Craft of Chorography. Sara soon advanced to the ranks
of choreographer at ADT where her work as an emerging choreographer
earned her repeated recognition at the Southeastern Regional Ballet
Association (SERBA).
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| Gee's
Bend Quilters |
09-13-2005 |
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Joey Brackner interviews
Matt Arnett of Tinwood Media and
quilter,
Arlonzia Pettway
during the opening of the
Quilts of Gee's Bend Exhibition in Mobile 2003. This is a
rebroadcast to promote the same
exhibition running from September to December 2005 at the Jule
Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Auburn.
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| Linda Munoz and
Mary Jane Everett |
08-30-2005 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews two crafts artists who have studio space in
York Alabama, glass artist Linda Munoz and basket
artist Mary Jane Everett who is recipient of an individual artists
award from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
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| Artists
Rachel and Tony
Wright |
08-23-2005 |
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Georgine Clarke, Visual
Arts Program Manager interviews Rachel and Tony
Wright, two artists living in Mobile. Rachel exhibits her work
widely, using a variety of materials to express her contemporary art
forms. She is also involved as a frequent curator for exhibitions at Space
301. Tony is a ceramic artist on the art faculty of the University
of South Alabama and is a leader in the state craft community.
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| Black Belt Roots Festival |
08-16-2005 |
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Joey Brackner, visits the 2004 Black Belt Roots Festival in Eutaw,
Alabama. He talks with festival organizers, craft artists and a
Fayette County step group that performed at the recent event. Repeat
from 2004 to promote 2005 festival to be held Aug 27-28.
Photos from 2003 festival
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| Poet
Andrew Hudgins |
08-09-2005 |
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Alabama Writers' Forum
executive director Jeanie Thompson interviews 2005 Harper Lee
Award-winning poet Andrew
Hudgins, who spent his teenage and early adult years in Montgomery
and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The author of six collections of poetry and
recipient of numerous other awards, Hudgins
reads from several poems in his new collection Ecstatic in the
Poison Thompson asks Hudgins to talk about being a Southern
writer and his work as an essayist.
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| Black
Belt Design founder Marilyn Gordon and designer Lillie Mack |
07-26-2005 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews Marilyn Gordon and Lillie Mack, artists
with Black Belt Designs in York, Alabama. This program, affiliated
with the Coleman Center is designed to teach residents of the area to
design and create clothing. The pieces are stitched from re-cycled
blue jeans and African mudcloth. Among other locations, the textiles
have been shown in New York and in a special exhibition at the
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
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| Hank
Willett |
07-19-2005 |
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Steve Grauberger interviews Hank Willett, former director for the
Alabama Center for Traditional Culture about the new CD release Wiregrass
Notes Revised: African American Sacred Harp Singing from Southeast
Alabama This is a reissue of the historic 1980 LP with added
material from the original reel-to-reel recording. Sacred Harp singing
from the CD is featured on the program.
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| Bob Sanders |
07-12-2005 |
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In a continuation of the previous program Steve Grauberger interviews storyteller, writer, and 50-year veteran
radio personality Bob Sanders of Auburn’s WAUD. Bob reads stories
from his publication Friends, Family and Frontier Country: Growing
Up in West Alabama, a compilation of articles taken from his
weekly newspaper column Esoterica for Everyone.
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| Bob Sanders |
07-05-2005 |
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Steve Grauberger interviews storyteller, writer, and 50-year veteran
radio personality Bob Sanders of Auburn’s WAUD. Bob reads stories
from his publication Friends, Family and Frontier Country: Growing
Up in West Alabama, a compilation of articles taken from his
weekly newspaper column Esoterica for Everyone.
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| Charles
Norman Mason, Rome Prize recipient. |
06-28-2005 |
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Rosemary
Johnson Executive Director of the Alabama
Dance Council interviews Charles
Mason, professor of composition at Birmingham Southern University,
about his receiving the prestigious Rome Prize for musical composition
that carries an eleven month residency in Rome Italy.
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| Visual
Artists Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. and Carl Pope |
06-21-2005 |
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Georgine Clarke interviews two artists working with the Coleman Center
in York, Alabama. Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is a printmaker who has
created posters and other materials for many events and organizations
in the state. His work has also been collected by such museums as the
Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Carl
Pope is a nationally recognized artist who was selected for exhibition
in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, an important showcase of contemporary
art, in New York.
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| Community
Scholars Institute |
06-14-2005 |
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Anne Kimzey, interviews participants of the Alabama Community Scholars
Institute. Kimzey speaks with Joyce Cauthen director of the
Alabama Folklife Association that sponsors of the Community Scholars
Institute. She also interviews three of the community scholars: Lori
Sawyer of Atmore, Ana Schuber of Tuscaloosa, and Diane Gerard of
Mobile.
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