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The Secret
Sisters, Laura and Lydia Rodgers
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01-29-2012
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The Secret
Sisters, Laura and Lydia Rodgers, have, in
the past year and a half, secured a record deal,
released an album produced by noted producer T-Bone
Burnett, toured much of the United States,
Europe, and Australia, and opened for Paul
Simon. Folklorist Deborah
Boykin talked with the sisters before a
November appearance at Decatur's
Princess Theater. They discussed their early
influences, the audition that led them into the
music business, their recent songwriting
efforts, and their touring and performing
experiences. (more)
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Linda
Vice, director of the Southwest
Alabama Tourism and Film Office.
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01-22-2012
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The
Southwest
Alabama Culinary Trail is the topic of this
week’s program as Anne Kimzey, folklorist with
the Alabama State Council on the Arts, travels
to Thomasville to interview Linda
Vice, director of the Southwest
Alabama Tourism and Film Office.
Ms. Vice takes listeners on a county-by-county
tour highlighting the traditional cuisine and
hospitality offered along the trail, which
includes everything from Conecuh
and Monroe
sausages to the Black Bottom Pie served at Gaines
Ridge Supper Club in Camden. (more)
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Jessica Lacher-Feldman
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01-15-2012
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The importance of community cookbooks as cultural
documents is the subject of this week’s
program on Alabama Arts Radio. Anne Kimzey,
folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the
Arts, interviews Jessica Lacher-Feldman, curator
of rare books and special collections at the University
of Alabama’s Hoole Library. Lacher-Feldman
discusses a number of cookbooks, recipes, and
illustrations included in their Alabama
Collection and the Lupton African American
Cookbook Collection. (more)
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Augusto Soledade, artistic director of Brazz
Dance Theatre
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01-08-2012
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Augusto Soledade, artistic director of Brazz
Dance Theatre talks about his life,
philosophy and choreographic process with arts
in education program manager, Diana Green. Brazz
Dance Theatre kicks off the second weekend of
events as part of the Alabama
Dance Festival 2012, with a brand new work,
Cordel. This new work blends the
styles and social implications of the Argentine
Tango with American Hip-hop culture. Mr.
Soledade's intent is to bring a discussion
on marginalization and social tensions around
the globe, using the literary tradition of Cordel
(popular Brazilian folk poetry) as
inspirations for the creation of this
abstract contemporary dance, to be presented on
Friday, January 27, at Samford
University's Wright Fine Arts Center. (more)
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Tom
Davenport Founding director of Folkstreams.net
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01-01-2012
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This program is a
rebroadcast of Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the
Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviewing Tom
Davenport an independent filmmaker and
founding director of Folkstreams.net.
During the program Davenport discusses how
Folkstreams preserves and gives new life to
documentary films about American folklore and
roots cultures by streaming them on the
internet. He talks about several important
Alabama
films featured on the website,
as well as his own work making folklore
documentaries and dramatic adaptations
of Grimm’s fairy tales. (more)
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Homespun
Songs of the Christmas Season
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12-25-2011
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For this program we want to thank Bobby
Horton for graciously allowing us to play
selections from his personally arranged and
performed Homespun
Songs of the Christmas Season CD for our
Christmas Day radio program. We at the Alabama
State Council on the Arts want to wish everyone
a Merry
Christmas, Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings
and a Happy New Year.
A seasoned performer, Horton is a
multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and
music historian. He has performed with the
musical- comedy trio Three
On a String, throughout the United States
and Canada for 35 plus years. He has also
produced and performed music scores for thirteen
PBS films by Ken
Burns including “The Civil War”, and
“Baseball,” two films for The A&E
network, and sixteen films for The National Park
Service. His series of recordings of
authentic period music has been acclaimed by
historical organization and publications through
America and Europe.
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Ronald K.
Brown, artistic director of Evidence,
A Dance Company
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12-18-2011
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Arts
in Education program manager Diana Green
talks with Ronald K. Brown, artistic director of
Evidence,
A Dance Company before his performance at
the Samford University Wright Center during the 2012
Alabama Dance Festival. The interview is a
sneak preview into the process of this
well-known choreographer from Brooklyn, New
York. His work is a seamless fusion of
traditional African dance with contemporary
choreography and spoken word. It provides a
unique view of human struggles, tragedies, and
triumphs. Brown uses movement as a way to
reinforce the importance of community in African
American culture and to acquaint audiences with
the beauty of traditional African forms and
rhythms. The depth of human experience that
has become the inspiration for his work is
evident as he speaks about why he creates. (more)
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Betty Moon
Sampson, Dixie Bluegrass Band
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12-11-2011
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This
program is a rebroadcast of Steve Grauberger
interviewing Betty
Moon Sampson, bluegrass musician and Master Artist in the Arts
Council's Folk
Arts Apprentice Program. Betty tells stories about various aspects of
her life growing up in Holly Pond, Alabama and learning to play and sing
music with her father, banjo maker and musician Arlin
Moon. She talks about her family band Dixie Bluegrass and shares
examples of her music (more)
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Gospel Quartet
Scholar Doug Seroff
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12-04-2011
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Doug Seroff has been researching and writing about African-American vernacular music for over 30 years. Much of his research concerns the gospel singing traditions of the Jefferson County area of Alabama. Archivist
Kevin Nutt
discusses this gospel singing traditions with Mr.
Seroff. A strong public school music program during the 1920s and 1930s and the presence of talented, community “quartet trainers” are two of the characteristics Mr. Seroff discusses that contributed to what became known as the Birmingham Sound. (more)
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John Henry
Mealing
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11-27-2011
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This program is a rebroadcast of
folklore researcher and history professor Jim Brown of Samford University
narrating an interview with "Gandy Dance Caller" John Henry
Mealing (1908-2007) 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.
(more)
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Jim Hilgartner received a Literary Arts Fellowship Award from the State Arts Council in
2011
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11-20-2011
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This week Anne Kimzey, literary arts program manager with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, talks with
Jim Hilgartner of Montgomery as he reads and discusses selections from his current works of short fiction. Hilgartner received a Literary Arts Fellowship Award from the State Arts Council in 2011. He serves on the English faculty of Huntingdon College where he also directs the
Staton Center for Learning
Enrichment.. (more)
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Archivist Cheylon Woods
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11-13-2011
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Kevin Nutt interviews Archivist Cheylon Woods
who is currently working at the
Alabama Department of Archives and History on a fellowship from the
HistoryMakers
foundation. Cheylon discusses The HistoryMakers organization and how it seeks to further the presence of African-Americans in the archiving field. Woods talks about her current projects at Archives and History and discusses her upbringing, family and education and how these influenced her life and career choice. (more)
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Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention
Program 2
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11-06-2011
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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 81st Annual
Convention held November 11th & 12th, 2011 at the Cottondale United
Methodist Church Cottondale, Al (Tuscaloosa
County), Friday night: 6:30p.m. – 8:30p.m. to
Saturday: 10:00a.m. – 3:00p.m. (more)
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Mary
Allison Haynie Executive Director of the Alabama Folklife Association
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10-30-2011
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Mary
Allison Haynie Executive Director of the Alabama
Folklife Association (AFA) discusses various
events that the AFA has presented throughout the
year promoting this Year
of Alabama Music. Such as, the tribute
to the traditional fiddling of the Stripling
family, the Sacred
Harp Singing School held at Tannehill State Park,
and the free upcoming event In
Harmony: Gospel Quartet Tradition, Teaching, and
Training to be held November 5th starting 1
PM at Discovery Alabama Event Center, 4500
Alabama Adventure Parkway; Bessemer,
Alabama. (more)
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Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention
Program 1
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10-23-2011
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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 81st Annual
Convention held November 11th & 12th, 2011 at the Cottondale United
Methodist Church Cottondale, Al (Tuscaloosa
County), Friday night: 6:30p.m. – 8:30p.m. to
Saturday: 10:00a.m. – 3:00p.m. (more)
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Robert Clem
and Auguster Maul
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10-16-2011
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To help
promote the Alabama
Folklife Association event In
Harmony: The Gospel Quartet Music Tradition of Jefferson County
on Nov 5th 2011, this radio program
is a rebroadcast
with Joey Brackner interviewing film maker Robert Clem about his
project the Gospel Highway. In the second half
of the program Joey interviews Auguster
Maul, lead singer for the Delta Aires Quartet.
(more)
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Chris Homes, Sucarnochee:
A Revue of Alabama Music
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10-09-2011
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Alabama
Center for Traditional Culture Director Joey
Brackner interviews Alabama
Public Television (APT) producer Chris
Holmes about his new film "Sucarnochee:
A Revue of Alabama Music." The
film profiles several Alabama musicians who
participated in a special concert this year at
the University of West Alabama in Livingston as
part of the Sucarnochee
Revue series. The film will premiere
October 24th at 9pm on APT. (more)
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The Birmingham
Sunlights
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10-02-2011
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This program is a repeat of Steve
Grauberger interviewing James Alex Taylor and
Barry Taylor, two of the six members of
the gospel a cappella group the Birmingham
Sunlights. In 2009 the Birmingham
Sunlights received a National Heritage
Fellowship for master folk and traditional artists in a ceremony in
Washington D. C. from the National Endowment for
the Arts (NEA). In this interview James
and Barry Taylor describe the history of their
group, its members and the travels they have
experienced singing and representing Alabama in
Africa, France, Italy and the United States.
Musical examples of their singing are presented
as well. (more)
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Mary Foshee and Charla
Cochran
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09-25-2011
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Arts in Education program manager Diana Green interviews Mary Foshee and Charla
Cochran from the Children’s Dance Foundation, in Homewood,
Alabama. The Children’s Dance Foundation offers classes in dance, drumming and dramatics for all ages, and tours
performances and workshops to schools and community organizations. More detailed
information about their programs and their contribution to arts education in our state is
included in this interview.
(more)
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John O'Neal
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09-18-2011
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Alabama State Arts Council Director Al Head interviews John
O'Neal, actor,
playwright, founder and now retired artistic
director of Junebug Productions based in New
Orleans. As a civil rights activist beginning in
the early 1960s he co-founded the Free
Southern Theater. He is probably
best know for his widely toured character Junebug
Jabbo Jones, a mythic figure who symbolizes the wisdom
of common people. O’Neal has
written eighteen plays, a musical comedy, poetry and several essays.
He is a winner of a Ford Foundation’s
Leadership for a Changing World award
(2005), the Award of
Merit from the Association of Performing Arts
Presenters (2010) and the United States Artists
Award. He was in Alabama demonstrating elements of the Story
Circle Project to
Arts leaders here. The Story Circle
concept allows individuals to
share intimate stories about themselves to help
bridge understanding between races.
(more)
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Sue Jensen and
Jamey Grimes
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09-11-2011
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Georgine Clarke discusses the Outdoor Sculpture
Project at Auburn University Montgomery with
project director Sue Jensen and participating
artist Jamey Grimes. Jensen explains how the
three artists were selected and describes their
various approaches to sculpture. Grimes talks about the nature of his work,
especially as it relates to
his study of the environment. He also talks
about teaching in the Prison Arts in Education
program operated from Auburn University. (more)
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Dr. Robert Halli
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09-04-2011
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This program is a 2004
rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing University of Alabama professor
Robert Halli about his book, An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs,
and Spirituals. The book is based upon the research of Byron Arnold
who collected folk songs throughout Alabama during the late 1940s.
Actual field recordings made by Byron Arnold are featured during the
program.
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Kim Mitchell,
Interim Director of the Carnegie
Visual Arts Center in Decatur
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08-28-2011
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In this week's program Georgine Clarke interviews Kim
Mitchell, Interim Director of the Carnegie
Visual Arts Center in Decatur, Alabama. The
discussion includes the exhibition schedule and
description of classes for children. The Center
has sponsored public art icons painted by
artists and located throughout the community for
the past three years. The images have included
butterflies and dragon flies as well as
roosters. Kim explains the popularity of this
program and also discusses how the roosters have
been done in conjunction with the Moulton
Chicken and Egg Festival.
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Joyce
Cauthen
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08-21-2011
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Alabama Center for Traditional Culture Director Joey
Brackner interviews Joyce Cauthen, recently
retired as the director of the Alabama
Folkife Association. In this
conversation Joyce discusses her many years as
director of the AFA and how she developed the
organization and the folklife research she
accomplished over three decades as director. She
also describes her work with the Birmingham
Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance and her performance
group, Red
Mountain.
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Youssef
Biaz
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08-14-2011
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In this program Diana Green, Arts in Education Program
Manager interviews the 2011 Poetry
Out Loud National Champion, Youssef
Biaz from Auburn High School, along with his English teacher and mentor,
Davis Thompson and Youssef's father and sister. more
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Tommy Moorehead
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08-07-2011
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Georgine Clarke interviews Tommy
Moorehead, director and artist-in-residence at Jemison-Carnegie
Heritage Hall in Talladega. He discusses the museum's educational
programming for both adults and children as well as the exhibition schedule.
The conversation includes discussion of his artwork and his background
as an artist and artist-in-residence throughout Alabama. He describes the
development of a new museum of the Creek Indian in Talladega as well as
activities of the Sarah Carlisle
Towery art colony in Alex City.
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Poet Dr. Virginia
Gilbert
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07-31-2011
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This week Anne Kimzey, literary arts program manager with the Alabama
State Council on the Arts, interviews poet Dr.
Virginia Gilbert of Madison about her work and her time serving in the
Peace Corps in Korea. Gilbert
received a Literary Arts Fellowship award from the State Arts Council in
2010 and has recently retired from the English faculty of Alabama A & M
University.
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Alabama Bluesman Ike
Zimmerman
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07-24-2011
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In June of 2011 a group of relatives came
together in Alabama to commemorate a common bond, the late Isaiah "Ike"
Zimmerman, an Alabama native originally from Grady. After making his home in
Beauregard, Mississippi in the 1930s, he became a mentor to bluesman
guitarist Robert Johnson. An acomplished blues guitarist and performer
himself, Ike Zimmerman and his wife Ruth took Johnson into their home for
over a year where Ike generously taught Johnson, then known as R.L., what he
knew about the blues. In this
program Grey Brennan, Marketing Manager at the Alabama Department of Travel
and Tourism and Steve Grauberger of ASCA interview two daughters of Ike
Zimmerman, Loretha Z. Smith and Nelly Ruth Brown with their two sons James
Smith and Oscar Brown, to try and find more information about this
interesting Alabamian and his relationship to Robert Johnson. more
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Jake Adam York
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07-17-2011
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Jeanie Thompson,
executive director of the Alabama
Writers’ Forum. interviews Jake
Adam York, featured poet at the 6th
Annual Alabama Book Festival. Thompson talks with York about his “open
project” of poems memorializing murdered civil rights workers, inspired
when he visited the newly installed Civil Rights Memorial at the Southern
Poverty Law Center in Montgomery. more
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Patterson Hood
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07-10-2011
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Folklorist Deborah Boykin
interviews musician Patterson Hood about the Drive-By
Truckers' (DBT) upcoming appearance
at the W.C.
Handy Festival sponsored by the Alabama
Folklife Association. A native of
Florence, Hood talks about the influence of
the area on his songwriting and discusses
growing up as a second generation musician in
Muscle Shoals. He describes the evolution of the
DBT and his long partnership with fellow Trucker
Mike Cooley and gives his thoughts on the future
of music in the Shoals. more
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Artist Ben Ward
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07-03-2011
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Program Manager Geogine Clarke
interviews Visual Artist and Savannah
College of Art and Design (SCAD)
professor of foundation studies Benjamin
Ward. In this radio interview Ward
details various aspects of the SCAD academic
program and gives insight into his early
influences and his contemporary approach to
teaching foundation studies.
Ward's current professional work and past
exhibits are also discussed.
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Alabama State
Poetry Out Loud Winners Peggy Payne and Youssef Biaz
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06-26-2011
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Donna Russell, executive director of the Alabama
Alliance for Arts Education, interviews two high school student winners
of our Poetry Out Loud Program. Poetry
Out Loud is a national poetry recitation contest, sponsored by the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. Students select
poems from an anthology provided at poetryoutloud.org.
Alabama adds to this program an opportunity for students to write original
poems and to recite them at the State competition. Peggy Payne was the
Original Poetry Recitation winner for 2011. Youssef Biaz became Alabama’s
State Champion in 2011 for the second year in a row and traveled to
Washington D.C. to compete in the national competition. Both students recite
poetry during this interview.
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Bill Jehle
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06-19-2011
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Folklorist Deborah Boykin interviews musician and author Bill
Jehle about his interest in cigarbox guitars. Jehle, who
plays the guitars he makes from cigar boxes and a variety of found objects,
is the author of One Man's Trash: A History of the Cigarbox Guitar
and curator of his own Cigar Box Musuem. One of his guitars is part of the
exhibit Music
Makers: A Celebration for the Year of Alabama Music on display in
the Alabama Artists Gallery in the RSA Tower in Montgomery.
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James Burkett
and Warren Shirley
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06-12-2011
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To highlight this Year of Alabama
Music, the Alabama Artist Gallery features an exhibit called, Music
Makers: A Celebration for the Year of Alabama Music (pdf
of exhibit program). Included in the exhibit are various musical
instruments made by Alabamians. Two craftsmen featured in this program are James
Burkett, a guitar maker from Dothan and Warren
Shirley a cigar-box
guitar maker from Davenport.
Both describe the process of making their instruments.
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Robena Perry
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06-05-2011
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To highlight this Year of Alabama Music, the Alabama Artist Gallery
features the exhibit, Music
Makers: A Celebration for the Year of Alabama Music (pdf
of exhibit program)..In this radio program, Visual Arts Program Manager
and Gallery Director Georgine Clarke interviews self-taught artist
Robena Perry. Perry has contributed her unusual sculpture "The
World's Smallest Band" made of over a hundred Barbie, Ken, G.
I. Joe, and other similar dolls that serves as a centerpiece for the
exhibit. Robena talks about her ideas behind the making of "The
World's Smallest Band" and other smaller vignettes that she calls rooms.
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Michael
Graham Allen
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05-29-2011
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Alabama Center for Traditional Culture Director Joey
Brackner interviews musician and flute maker Michael Graham Allen
of Walker County. Allen constructs wooden flutes inspired by
American Indian designs. He also decorates the instruments based on
historic Indian pottery designs. Photos of his flutes as well as his
music CDs can be found at: coyoteoldman.com.
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Poet, Playwright,
Educator and Activist Sonia Sanchez
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05-22-2011
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This week Jeanie Thompson interviews poet, playwright, educator and
activist Sonia Sanchez.
Sanchez talks about her belief in the power of poetry to help people survive
their circumstances, including alienation and incarceration. She also speaks
about her early life in Alabama, her father Wilson L. Driver, a 1980
Inductee in the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame,
and her formative experiences with the Black
Arts Movement and the development of Black Studies programs around the
country.
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Brent Warren of
the Newgrass Troubadours
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05-15-2011
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Deborah Boykin, folklorist with the Alabama Center for Traditional
Culture, interviews Brent Warren of The
Newgrass Troubadours. This Birmingham band performs bluegrass standards
as well as their own arrangements of songs by artists rarely covered by
bluegrass bands, such as Jimi Hendrix. Warren, who is also president of the
Alabama Bluegrass Music Association, talks about the band's musical
influences and their experiences performing at festivals around the region.
He also discusses learning to play with other musicians in jam sessions at
festivals and encourages up and coming pickers to seek out these
opportunities when they can. Examples of their eclectic style can be
heard as well.
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Eddie Floyd
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05-08-2011
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Deborah Boykin talks with soul music great Eddie
Floyd. Floyd, who wrote hits including "Knock on Wood" and
"634-5789," describes his songwriting techniques, his early career
in Detroit as part of The Falcons, a group that also included Prattville
native Wilson Pickett, and his experiences touring in Europe. He also talks
about growing up in Alabama, his early musical influences, and his
performance at the Governor's
Arts Awards on May 17th, 2011.
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Braxton Schuffert
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04-24-2011
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Folkorist Deborah Boykin talks with 97 year old Braxton Schuffert,
a country singer and songwriter who was one of Hank Williams's original
Drifting Cowboys. Mr. Schuffert talks about his early life,
his experience performing on WSFA radio and his long friendship with
Williams, which began when Schuffert made a delivery to the boarding
house run by Hank's mother. He also describes the experience
of co-writing a song with Williams and talks about his own
compositions.
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Valerie Pope
Burnes and Dr. Tina Naremore Jones
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04-24-2011
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Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on
the Arts, interviews two University of West
Alabama faculty members who are working to promote the Black Belt region
of Alabama. In the first half of the show Valerie Pope Burnes,
Director of the Center for the Study
of the Black Belt and Assistant Professor of History
at UWA discusses the activities of the Center and its role in creating
appreciation of the culture and natural history of the 19-county region.
In the second half of the show, Dr. Tina Naremore Jones, Dean of Educational
Outreach at UWA and president of the board of the Alabama
Black Belt Heritage Area describes efforts to develop tourism in the
region.
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Lee Sentell
and Grey Brennan
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04-17-2011
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Alabama Center for Traditional Culture Director Joey
Brackner interviews Alabama Tourism Department Director Lee
Sentell about the tourism industry in Alabama and his Department's themed
campaigns
such as the "Year
of Alabama Food" and "Year
of Alabama Arts". In the second half Grey
Brennan, Marketing and Regional Director for the Alabama Tourism
Department, talks about this year's innovative campaign "The
Year of Alabama Music" and its importance to the state's local
economy. Also included is a discussion about the Year
of Alabama Music Songwriting Contest.
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Dr. Wayne Anthony
Barr
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04-09-2011
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Steve Grauberger interviews Dr. Wayne Anthony Barr, director of the Tuskegee
University's Golden Voices Concert Choir, about his work and some of the
choir's history regarding Tuskegee University founder Booker
T. Washington and well known choral arranger and director Dr,
William Levi Dawson.
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James Lamb
and Dr. Ashley Dumas
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04-03-2011
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Joey Brackner, director of the Alabama
Center for Traditional Culture interviews paleontologist James Lamb and Dr.
Ashley Dumas of the Black Belt
Museum, a division of the Center for the Study of the Black Belt at the University
of West Alabama in Livingston.
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Alabama Book
Festival
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03-27-2011
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Deborah Boykin interviews Gail
Waller, co-chair of the 6th annual Alabama
Book Festival , and Jeannie Thompson, executive director of
the Alabama Writer's Forum, about
the upcoming festival on April 16 in Montgomery's
Old Alabama Town. They discuss the authors who will appear at the
festival and the activities planned for visitors of all ages, including
readings, book signings, and children's activities.
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Musicians Cast King and Matt Downer
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03-20-2011
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This program is a rebroadcast of a 2005
interview by Anne Kimzey with 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. Cast King died in 2007.
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Donna Russell,
director of the Alabama Alliance for Arts
Education.
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03-13-2011
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This week Anne Kimzey of the Alabama State Council on the Arts
interviews Donna Russell, director of the Alabama
Alliance for Arts Education. During the program Russell discusses
the Alliance's work as an advocate for arts in the schools, training
opportunities for teachers and communities, and fruitful partnerships both
nationally with the Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts and statewide with the Alabama State
Council on the Arts.
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Enoch and Margie
Sullivan of the Sullivan Family Bluegrass Gospel Band
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03-06-2011
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This program is a rebroadcast of a 2003 interview
with Enoch and Margie Sullivan in memory of Enoch Sullivan, who recently
passed on Feb 23rd 2011 in Mobile.
The Sullivan Family of St. Stephens, Alabama has been stalwart in the
presentation of Bluegrass Gospel music throughout the world. Among
their many awards are the Alabama State Council on the Arts’ Folk Heritage
Fellowship and the International Bluegrass Music Association’s
Distinguished Achievement Award.
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Marc Smirnoff,
editor of the Oxford American
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02-27-2011
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This week Joey Brackner, director of the Alabama Center for
Traditional Culture interviews Marc Smirnoff, editor of the Oxford
American. They discuss the current issue of the Oxford
American dedicated to the music of Alabama and upcoming music events for the
year of Alabama Music.
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Mary
Allison Haynie
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02-20-2011
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This week Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on
the Arts, talks with Mary
Allison Haynie, director of the Alabama
Folklife Association. They discuss the AFA's mission to document,
preserve and present the traditional arts and culture of the state, the
organization's upcoming music events for the year
of Alabama Music, and plans for the future.
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Cheryl
E. Davis Playwright
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02-13-2011
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Literature Program Manager Anne Kimzey interviews Cheryl
Davis, an award winning writer and playwright. Her work has been read
and performed nationally and internationally. She is in Alabama for the
premier of her play at the Birmingham
Children's Theatre (BCT), "Tuxedo
Junction," a story of Erskine Hawkins. It’s Davis’
second time premiering a work in Birmingham, the first being last season’s
Red
Mountain Theatre Company production of “Barnstormer,”
Davis’ musical look at black aviatrix Bessie Coleman. In the interview
Davis tells of her education and background that led her to become a
playwright of historic American characters as well as a talented lyricist.
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William Ferris
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02-06-2011
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This program is a 2006 rebroadcast of Joey Brackner
interviewing folklorist William
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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Christophe E. Jackson
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01-29-2011
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Performing Arts Program Manager Yvette Jones-Smedley interviews Christophe
Jackson. In this program Jackson talks about his research project
involving an innovative sound booth that is used to record and analyze
physical stresses that a singer encounters during and after a vocal
performance or practice. Growing up in the heart of Montgomery,
Jackson studied both classical and jazz music. With a double major in
biology and music, Jackson blends his love of music and his fascination with
science with his goal of becoming a doctor.
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Bettye Kimbrell
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01-23-2011
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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.
Inspired by Diane
Bentley's interest in quilting the Alabama State Council on the Arts
has organized an exhibition of quilts titled Alabama Quilts: Stitched for
Warmth and Beauty. The exhibition is on display until March 18th, 2011
at the Alabama Artists Gallery, 201 Monroe Street in Montgomery. There
are works by 28 quilters, including the Cathedral Window quilt panel made by
Dianne Bentley while traveling with her husband during his campaign.
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David
Ivey and Tim Eriksen
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01-16-2011
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This program is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing David
Ivey and Tim Eriksen
about Sacred Harp Singing in the Movie, Cold Mountain. Sacred Harp musical examples are
included in the program
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Photographer
Mark Gooch
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01-09-2011
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Anne Kimzey,
folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews
Birmingham photographer Mark Gooch about his career and an
important publication documenting Alabama folk artists for the exhibition
called; Carry
On: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Alabama Folk Arts Apprenticeship
Program. (click
here for PDF) This program is a rebroadcast from 2008.
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Priscilla Hancock Cooper, coordinator for the
Birmingham
Civil Rights Institute
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01-02-2011
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This program is a 2006 rebroadcast of Randy Shoults, Community Arts, Literature and Design Program Manager for
the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviewing 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 the Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature
recipient for 2005. She reads samples from her literary works.
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Randy Foster
Program Manager for Alabama
Institute for Education in the Arts
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12-25-2010
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Arts in Education Program Manager Diana Green interviews Randy Foster,
Program Manager for Alabama
Institute for Education in the Arts
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Alabama Christmas
Music
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12-18-2010
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This program features Christmas
songs selected from the Fretted Instruments Christmas CDs. In
years past Herb
Trotman, Wayne Anderson, and numerous Alabama musicians have
put together CDs of Christmas music which are distributed each year at
Fretted Instruments, Trotman's music store in Homewood. The
project involves what Herb calls "the Large and Amorphous Group",
made up of area bands and musicians who record Christmas music especially
for each year's CD.
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Robert Haygens White
Oak Basketry
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12-11-2010
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This week Anne Kimzey, folklorist with
the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Robert
Haygens of Opp about making white
oak baskets and teaching his traditional craft through the support of
the Alabama
Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. Mr. Haygens walks
listeners through the entire basketmaking process from selecting the right
tree, to weaving the oak splits, to attaching the rim and handles.
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2011
Alabama Dance Festival Director Rosemary Johnson
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12-04-2010
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Yvette Jones-Smedley, Performing
Arts Program Manager interviews Alabama
Dance Council Executive Director Rosemary Johnson about the 2011 Dance
Festival.
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William
Christenberry
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11-28-2010
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This
is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner,
Director of the Alabama
Center for Traditional Culture, interviewing Alabama native, and renowned
artist, William
Christenberry at his home in Washington D.C in 2007. 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
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11-21-2010
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This
program is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner,
Director of the Alabama
Center for Traditional Culture, interviewing Alabama native, and renowned
artist, William
Christenberry at his home in Washington D.C in 2007. 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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Bruce
Larsen
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11-14-2010
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Georgine Clarke interviews Bruce
Larsen, Fairhope sculptor known for his use
of a wide variety of found objects. He discusses
the range of his sculpture, from pieces
used in popular films to commissions for
the Mobile
Museum of Fine Art and the City
of Decatur. Larsen's sculptures of
athletes are collected by the United
States Sports Academy in Daphne.
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Randy
Shoults
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11-07-2010
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This program is a rebroadcast of Joey
Brackner, Director of the Alabama Center for
Traditional Culture interviewing 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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Robert
Stripling
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10-31-2010
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In
this program Joyce Cauthen, author of With
Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow: The History of
Old-Time Fiddling in Alabama, interviews
Robert Stripling, the oldest son of Charlie
Stripling (1896-1963). Charlie Stripling
was a master fiddler who, with his brother Ira
on guitar, recorded 42 fiddle tunes for
Brunswick and Decca Records between 1928 and
1936. He was a popular performer in his
hometown of Kennedy and surrounding communities
in Lamar, Fayette, Pickens and Tuscaloosa
counties, where he played for hundreds of
fiddlers’ conventions and dances. When
his recordings were reissued in the 1980s, his
music found new fans across the nation.
For
more information on Charlie Stripling, visit the
Encyclopedia
of Alabama Online. For information
about the event in Belk visit www.alabamafolklife.org.
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Rick
Bragg
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10-24-2010
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This program is a rebroadcast featuring Alabama State Council on
the Arts Executive Director Al Head interviewing renowned Alabama author Rick
Bragg about his upbringing in Alabama and his writing career. They
discuss Bragg's books, All
Over But the Shoutin', Ava's
Man, The
Prince of Frogtown, and his newest book The
Most They Ever Had which is a group of essays built around stories of
mill workers at the now defunct Union
Yarn Mill in Jacksonville Alabama.
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Stacey
Bryan and Linda Swann of Alabama
Communities of Excellence
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10-17-2010
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Design Alabama Executive Director Gina
Clifford interviews Stacey Bryan, Director of the Alabama
Communities of Excellence and Linda Swann from the Alabama development
Office and current President of ACE. ACE is an organization which works
closely with Design
Alabama to create quality communities in Alabama. Founded in 2002, The
Alabama Communities of Excellence (ACE) program is a comprehensive
three-phase approach to economic and community development for cities with
populations between 2,000 and 18,000. With the mission of helping
Alabama’s smaller communities to plan, grow and prosper, ACE partners from
the private sector, governmental agencies, and universities work with each
community to successfully achieve the vision and goals created during the
ACE program.
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Steve Miller, coordinator of the Book Arts Program at the
University of Alabama
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10-10-2010
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This
is a rebroadcast of a 2007 program in which 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, coordinator of the Book Arts Program at the
University of Alabama
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10-03-2010
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This is a rebroadcast of a 2007
program in which 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.
The second part of this interview will take place next week.
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Dr.
Henry Panion, III
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09-26-2010
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Yvette Jones-Smedley, Performing
Arts Program Manager interviews internationally known producer, composer,
arranger, orchestrator, conductor, and educator, Dr.
Henry Panion, III. ASCA Music Fellowship recipient, Dr.
Panion, shares his wealth of experiences in the music industry from
Gospel to Classical, and everything in between. Hear reflections of his
professional affiliations with superstars such as Stevie Wonder,
jazz luminaries such as Jonathan Butler and the Lionel Hampton
Orchestra as well as Gospel legends the Winans and Juanita Bynum.
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Thomas
Hylton, Save Our Land,
Save Our Towns
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09-19-2010
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To help promote Thomas
Hylton's upcoming keynote presentation at the Alabama
Communities of Exellence (ACE) organization's kickoff event, Completing the Puzzle to Build a
Successful Community on September 23, 2010; this is a rebroadcast
of an earlier program. 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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Hannah Leatherbury, co-manager of ArtsReady
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09-12-2010
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Barbara
Edwards, Deputy Director for ASCA, interviews
Hannah Leatherbury, co-manager of ArtsReady,
an initiative of South Arts. South
Arts, in partnership with its nine member state
arts agencies, urges the arts community to
engage in continuity planning through their Be
ArtsReady campaign. Being ArtsReady means
preparedness, readiness and business continuity
for arts organizations.
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Betty Moon Sampson
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09-05-2010
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Steve Grauberger interviews Betty
Moon Sampson, bluegrass musician and Master Artist in the Arts
Council's Folk
Arts Apprentice Program. Betty tells stories about various aspects of
her life growing up in Holly Pond, Alabama and learning to play and sing
music with her father, banjo maker and musician Arlin
Moon. She talks about her family band Dixie Bluegrass and shares
examples of her music.
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Tom
Davenport founding
director of Folkstreams.net.
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08-29-2010
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Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama
State Council on the Arts, interviews Tom
Davenport an independent filmmaker and founding
director of Folkstreams.net. During the
program Davenport discusses how Folkstreams
preserves and gives new life to documentary
films about American folklore and roots cultures
by streaming them on the internet. He
talks about several important Alabama films
featured on the website, as well as his own work
making folklore documentaries and dramatic
adaptations of Grimm’s fairy tales.
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Belinda George Peoples
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08-22-2010
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Yvette Jones-Smedley, Performing
Arts Program Manger interviews Birmingham’s own, Belinda
George-Peoples, a recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts
Fellowship Award in Music. Belinda shares the inspiring tale of her
journey which began at the age of six, singing from the church pews
and led her to center stage in
a musical written especially to showcase her immense talent in the Red Mountain
Theatre’s world premier of “Respect.”
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Teresa
Hollingsworth Senior Program
Director and Gerri Combs
Executive Director of South
Arts
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08-15-2010
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In this program, Deborah Boykin talks
with South
Arts Senior Program Director Teresa Hollingsworth about
the programs and services offered through this regional arts organization.
In the second half of the program Gerri Combs, Executive Director of South
Arts discusses the organization's role in helping to shape arts
policy and advocacy in the Southeast.
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Deborah
Rankins, Assistant Director of Library Services at Alabama
Southern Community College and the Kathryn
Tucker Windham Museum
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08-08-2010
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Folklife Specialist Anne Kimzey
interviews Deborah Rankins, Assistant Director of Library Services at Alabama
Southern Community College and the Kathryn
Tucker Windham Museum in Thomasville. Rankins furnishes
information about the Windham Museum and discusses a calendar of events that
feature various regional storytelling groups that are part of the Kathryn
Tucker Windam Storytelling Club in Southwest Alabama.
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Robin
Wade Furniture Maker
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08-01-2010
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Georgine Clarke interviews
Florence, Alabama furniture builder Robin
Wade. He discusses the techniques used in making his large slab tables
and benches and describes cutting trees up to 60" in diameter
using a special Austrailian saw mill. The slabs are then both air-dried
and kiln dried before the construction begins. Wade talks about his
philosophy in working with wood and the aesthetics of the pieces. He
describes the finishing process, care of the furniture in a business or
home and also his interest in finding and using large historic trees
when they have been taken down.
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Elie
Lazar, Artistic Director of Montgomery
Ballet
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07-25-2010
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Performing Arts Program Manager
Yvette Jones-Smedley interviews Elie Lazar, Artistic Director of Montgomery
Ballet and recipient of a Fellowship Award in Dance from the Alabama
State Council on the Arts (ASCA). Elie talks about his journey as a
dancer and choreographer from Israel to New York to Alabama and his
professional accomplishments that led to statewide recognition with the ASCA
Fellowship Award. Mr. Lazar also discusses the upcoming season at the
Montgomery Ballet and about the exciting collaboration with the Montgomery
Choral and other performing arts organizations.
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Chris
Holmes and Paige Wainwright
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07-18-2010
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Alabama Center for Traditional
Culture Director Joey Brackner interviews Chris Holmes, Executive Producer
at Alabama Public Television (APT) and
Paige Wainwright, Curator of the Metal
Arts Program at Sloss Furances about the new APT production Sloss:
Industry to Art having its public premiere July 23rd at Sloss
Furnaces National Historic Landmark at 7 P. M. The television premiere
is on July 25th at 7 P. M. on APT.
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New Book Gospel Shapenote
Singing CD
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07-10-2010
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Folklife Specialist Deb Boykin
interviews Steve Grauberger about the new CD project Traditional
Musics of Alabama Volume 5 New Book Gospel Shapenote Singing
produced by the Alabama Center for Traditional
Culture and the Alabama Folklife
Association.
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Joseph
Wujcik of Calera
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07-03-2010
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Visual Arts Program Manager
Georgine Clarke interviews wood turner Joseph
Wujcik of Calera. Wujcik is a recipient of the Council's Individual
Artist's Fellowship in Craft. He describes his source of the natural
wood burls and the process of creating hollow formed vessels. He also talks
about the finishing and care of the pieces as well as marketing his work at
Art Festivals throughout the United States.
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Susan Robertson
and Alison Beeson
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06-27-2010
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In this program Joey Brackner interviews Susan Robertson and Alison
Beeson of Dothan's Wiregrass
Museum of Art, The Wiregrass Museum of Art is the result of a
community’s genuine desire for the arts in the city of Dothan, Alabama and
surrounding communities of the Wiregrass Region. Begun in 1991, WMA has
grown to be the flagship of the arts in the Wiregrass with a mission to
bring the fine arts and art education to Dothan and the Wiregrass Region.
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Jan
Pruitt, Executive
Director of the Kentuck in Northport, Alabama
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06-20-2010
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Georgine
Clarke interviews Jan
Pruitt, recently appointed Executive
Director of the Kentuck program in Northport,
Alabama. They discuss the nationally recognized Kentuck
Festival of the Arts, celebrating its 39th
year in October 2010. The Kentuck
art center facilities are located in
historic downtown Northport and include resident
artists, exhibition spaces, and a shop. Other
Kentuck activities including the December
celebration "Dickens Downtown" are
covered in the program.
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Larry
Register and Don Fabiani
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06-13-2010
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Joey Brackner interviews Larry
Register and Don Fabiani about the Wiregrass
Festival Of Murals project in downtown Dothan. As proclaimed by the
Governor, Dothan is a Mural City. Murals painted on many downtown buildings
by nationally and internationally known muralists showcase early scenes of
local and state history.
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Ted
Rosengarten
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06-06-2010
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This show is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner
interviewing Ted
Rosengarten about his award winning book All
God's Dangers: The Life of Nat Shaw and his book A
Portion of the People: 300 Years of Southern Jewish Life
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David
Dionne and Mike Mahon
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05-30-2010
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For this week's program, Joey Brackner
interviews David Dionne of the Red
Mountain Park and Mike Mahon of the Friends
of Red Mountain Park. Red Mountain Park is a new urban park in
Birmingham featuring both the natural and cultural history of the area.
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Bettie
Fikes
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05-23-2010
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This week Deborah Boykin interviews
singer and civil rights activist Bettie Fikes, who discusses her experiences
as a Freedom Singer and the performers who influenced her style as blues
singer. Ms. Fikes recently
performed in Tuscaloosa with the Alabama
Blues Project and talks about returning to her home state to sing
with these students.
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Poetry
Out Loud National Finalist, Youssef Biaz
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05-16-2010
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Poetry
Out Loud
seeks to foster the next generation of literary readers by capitalizing
on the latest trends in poetry - recitation and performance. The
program, sponsored by the National Endowment for
the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, provides opportunities for high
school students to master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and
learn about their literary heritage. Diana Green, Arts in Education Program
Manager interviews the 2010 Alabama State Champion, Youssef
Biaz from Auburn High School, along with his English teacher and mentor,
Davis Thompson. Following this interview, Youssef competed in Washington
D.C. in the National semifinals and finals, placing as one of the top 9
finalists (out of 53 champions nationwide) receiving an additional $1000
scholarship and $500 for his school.
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Sue
Brannan Walker, Alabama's Poet Laureate
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05-09-2010
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Joey Brackner interviews Alabama poet
laureate Sue Brannan Walker about her work and Negative
Capability Press.
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Kenny
Brown
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05-02-2010
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This week Deborah Boykin
interviews bluesman Kenny
Brown, who recently appeared at the Chicken
and Egg Festival in Moulton. Brown talks about R.
L. Burnside and the other musicians who were his influences. He also
discusses his North
Mississippi Hill Country Picnic. The event pays tribute to Brown's
musical roots by presenting most of the performers currently playing in
the distinctive hill country blues style he learned as a child.
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Guadalupe
Lanning Robinson
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04-25-2010
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Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine
Clarke talks with Guadalupe Lanning
Robinson, Huntsville ceramic
artist and recipient of the Individual Artist Fellowship in Craft from ASCA.
Robinson, native of Mexico City, has brought her cultural traditions into
her contemporary work. She discusses ways in which she markets her pottery
as well as the important role of the Alabama Clay Conference to potters of
the region. She provides information about art activity in Huntsville,
particularly studio spaces of Lowe
Mill, a recently developed center which
helps create an artist community in the area.
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Author,
John Sledge
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04-18-2010
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In this week's program, Joey Brackner
interviews Mobile preservationist, historian, book reviewer and author John
Sledge about his career and his latest book The Pillared City
available from the University
of Georgia Press.
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Kevin Nutt, Archive of
Alabama Folk Culture
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04-11-2010
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Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the
Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews archivist Kevin Nutt about his
work at the Archive of Alabama Folk Culture located in the Alabama
Department of Archives and History in Montgomery. During the
program Nutt shares samples of traditional music selected from the archive
including old-string band music, a capella gospel and Sacred Harp
singing.
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Poet
Mary Kaiser
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04-04-2010
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In this interview, executive director Jeanie
Thompson of the Alabama
Writers’ Forum, talks with Mary Kaiser, one of two recipients of a
fellowship from the Alabama
State Council of the Arts and a featured poet at the 5th
Alabama Book Festival, April 17 in Montgomery, Ala. Kaiser, a faculty
member at Jefferson State Community College, talks about the genesis of her
chapbook, Falling into Velazquez, which won the 2006 Slapering
Hol Chapbook Award from the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center.
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Jeanie
Thompson, executive director of the Alabama
Writers’ Forum
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03-28-2010
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Randy Shoults, program
manager for literature at ASCA,
talks with Jeanie
Thompson, executive director of the Alabama
Writers’ Forum and producer of two events for the 5th
Annual Alabama Book Festival in Montgomery, Alabama on April 17 in Old
Alabama Town. Thompson produces the Festival’s Poetry Tent and directs
the Teacher Workshops associated with the Book Festival. Thompson tells
about the range of poets highlighting generations of writers in the state,
from up and coming young poets through the state’s poet laureate, and
reads selections of poets’ works. For a complete list of poets and
other authors at the Alabama Book Festival, go to www.alabamabookfestival.org.
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Alabama
Music Hall of Fame director David Johnson
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03-21-2010
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In this program Joey Brackner interviews Alabama
Music Hall of Fame director David Johnson about the 13th
Induction Banquet and
Awards Show to be held in the Convention Center in
Montgomery, Ala.,
Thursday, March 25. The inductees and their categories are: Performing
artist/group category- The
Blind Boys of Alabama and Eddie
Levert, (the lead singer of the O’Jays); Music creator- Dothan
songwriter/record producer Buddy
Buie and Florence session musician Jerry
Carrigan; Entertainment industry-Elba native, record
producer/musician Paul Hornsby;
John Herbert Orr Pioneer Award- The late Muscle Shoals musician Terry
Thompson and singer/Colbert-Lauderdale County State Senator
Bobby Denton.
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Bob
McClain, Executive Director of Old
Alabama Town and Ashley Gordon, Alabama
Book Festival.
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For this program Randy
Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager, interviews Bob
McClain, Executive Director of Old
Alabama Town and Ashley Gordon about the 5th
Annual Alabama Book Festival. The Festival will be held again in
downtown Montgomery at Old Alabama Town on April, 17 and will
feature over 50 Alabama authors. This event is free and open to the
public.
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David
Boley, Executive Director of the Alabama Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame
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03-07-2010
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In this program
Deborah Boykin interviews David
Boley, Executive Director of the Alabama Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame,
about the 2010 Hall of Fame inductees and other activities of the Alabama
Bluegrass Music Association. He also discusses the state's rich
tradition of bluegrass festivals.
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Molly Gamble and Fran
Pierce of Arts
Revive
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02-28-2010
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In
this program Community Arts Program Manager
Randy Shoults interviews Molly Gamble and Fran
Pierce about Selma's Arts
Revive and the conversion of the Carneal
Auto Service building into their
organization's arts center.
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Marcus
Johnson of the Bay City Brass Band
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02-21-2010
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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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Randy
Gachet, Individual Artist Fellowship recipient in sculpture from
the Alabama State Council on the Arts
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02-14-2010
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This week's program features
Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke interviewing artist Randy
Gachet, Individual Artist Fellowship recipient in sculpture from
the Alabama State Council on the Arts and art faculty member at the Alabama
School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. Gachet discusses themes of his work,
much of which is constructed with wire and tire material he picks up along
roadways. He talks about the process of teaching art to high school students
and directions of contemporary art using non-traditional materials.
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Henry
Gipson and Lenny Madden of Gip's
Juke Joint
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02-07-2010
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In
this program Joey Brackner interviews Henry
Gipson and Lenny Madden of Gip's
Juke Joint in Bessemer.
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Individual Artist
Fellowship Recipient Gary Chapman
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01-31-2010
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Visual Arts Program
Manager Georgine Clarke interviews Gary
Chapman, Professor of Art at the University
of Alabama in Birmingham. Chapman's paintings are in the collections of
all of Alabama's Art Museums. He was included in ASCA's 2008
publication "Alabama
Masters: Artists and Their Work" and is a two time recipient
of the Council's Individual Artist Fellowship. During the program,
Chapman discusses his painting and teaching philosophy as well as the
use of symbolism in his paintings.
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Bullfrog
Jumped
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01-24-2010
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Rebroadcast of ACTC Director Joey
Brackner inteviewing 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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American
Gospel Quartet Convention
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01-17-2010
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This program is a rebroadcast
of Steve Grauberger
interviewing George Stewart, producer
of the American
Gospel Quartet Convention. Also
included are interviews from the convention in 2005 with veteran gospel
singer Roscoe
Robinson and Ricky
McKinney of the Blind Boys of Alabama. Gospel quartet musical
examples are included.
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Felecia
Jones Executive Director of the
Black Belt Community Foundation
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01-10-2010
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Barbara Edwards, Deputy
Director, interviews Felecia
Jones, Executive Director of the Black
Belt Community Foundation. The Council began working in
partnership three years ago with the Black Belt Community Foundation to
identify, celebrate and support the arts and culture of the black belt
region of Alabama.
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Jacky Jack White of the
Sucarnochee Revue
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01-03-2010
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In honor of musician Jacky Jack
White
receiving a 2010 Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship award, this
program is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner
interviewing 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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Dr.
Henry Glassie
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12-27-2009
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This is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner
interviewing renowned folklorist Henry Glassie in honor
of Dr Glassie winning the prestigious Haskins
Prize for lifetime achievement. In this program Glassie discusses his life and research of vernacular architecture in the Southern United
States, and particularly in Alabama.
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Christmas
Music from Alabama Musicians
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12-20-2009
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This week's program features Christmas
songs selected from the Fretted Instruments Christmas CDs. For the past six
years Herb
Trotman, Wayne Anderson, and numerous Alabama musicians have
put together CDs of Christmas music which are distributed each year at
Fretted Instruments, Trotman's music store in Homewood. The
project involves what Herb calls "the Large and Amorphous Group",
made up of area bands and musicians who record Christmas music especially
for each year's CD.
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Birmingham musician Herb
Trotman
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12-13-2009
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This week Deborah Boykin interviews Birmingham musician
Herb Trotman, who talks
about banjo playing and tells stories from three decades of performing old
time and bluegrass music in Alabama.
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Joe Watts and Colette Boehm
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12-06-2009
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In this program Joey Brackner interviews Joe Watts
of the Alabama Scenic Byways
Program and Colette Boehm of Alabama's Coastal
Connection. Alabama's Coastal Connection has just been named a
national byway by the National Scenic
Byways Program.
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Charlie Lucas and Chip Cooper
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11-29-2009
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For this week's program Joey Brackner interviews Charlie
Lucas and Chip Cooper about the new
book Tinman
published by the University of Alabama
Press. Tinman features a narrative by Charlie Lucas, edited by
Ben Windham, and beautiful photography of Lucas' work by Chip Cooper.
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Ernestine Hill Robinson Director of
the Plantation Heirs
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11-22-2009
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Steve Grauberger interviews Auburn native Ernestine Hill
Robinson about her life as a singer and the director of the a cappella
Negro spiritual singing group, The Plantation Heirs. Musical examples are
included in the program.
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Susan Perry of the Alabama
Humanities and Folklife Researcher Fred Fussell
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11-15-2009
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Joey Brackner interviews Susan Perry of the Alabama Humanities Foundation and researcher
Fred Fussell about the exhibit New
Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music.
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Andrew Freear, director of The Rural Studio
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11-08-2009
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Deborah Boykin interviews Andrew Freear, director of The Rural Studio, a
project of Auburn University's School of Architecture. He discusses how
this community-based program enables students to learn through projects
that ultimately
provide affordable homes and public spaces in rural West Alabama.
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Ezra "Buddy" Knight
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11-01-2009
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Steve Grauberger interviews gospel songwriter and music
teacher Ezra "Buddy" Knight about his career as a singing school
and piano teacher, gospel songwriter, editor and distributor for the Stamp/Baxter
Music Company, a major publisher of shapenote convention songbooks.
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Ralph "Buddy" Palmer,
President and CEO of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham
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10-25-2009
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Joey Brackner interviews Buddy Palmer,
President and CEO of the Cultural Alliance of
Greater Birmingham.
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Bobby Horton
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10-18-2009
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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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Dr. Thomas Bice State Deputy
Superintendent of Education
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10-11-2009
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For this week’s program, Diana Green interviews our
Deputy State Superintendent of Education Instructional Services, Dr.
Thomas Bice. Dr. Bice talks about the need for school reform and how
the arts may play a role. Evident in the discussion is Dr. Bice’s passion
for reaching all of Alabama’s students by asking adults to start thinking
outside the box. His premise: “Adults can fix this problem!”
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Curt Long and Meaghan Heinrich of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra
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10-04-2009
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For this week's program Joey Brackner interviews Curtis Long, Executive
Director and Meaghan
Heinrich, Education Manager of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
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Author Rick Bragg
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9-27-2009
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Council Executive Director Al Head interviews renowned
Alabama author Rick Bragg
about his upbringing in Alabama and his writing career. They discuss
Bragg's books, All
Over But the Shoutin', Ava's
Man, The
Prince of Frogtown, and his yet unnamed, upcoming novel of essays built
around stories of mill workers at the now defunct Union
Yarn Mill in Jacksonville Alabama.
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Richard Metzger, Executive Director
of the Troy-Pike Cultural Arts Complex
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9-20-2009
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Georgine Clarke, Visual Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State
Council on the Arts, interviews Richard
Metzger, Executive Director of the Troy-Pike Cultural Arts Complex in Troy,
Alabama. He explains how the exhibition space was created in a historic
Post Office and describes the programs. The discussion features the current
exhibition "Celebrating
Contemporary Art in Alabama: The Importance of Being Southern."
This presentation includes works by forty-one artists who have received
Individual Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Works range from photography, painting, sculpture and printmaking to hot
glass, ironwork, ceramics and quilts. The exhibition marks the first time
such an exhibition has been mounted in Alabama.
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James Alex Taylor and Barry
Taylor, Birmingham Sunlights
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9-13-2009
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In this program Steve Grauberger interviews James Alex Taylor and Barry
Taylor, two of the five members of the gospel a cappella group the
Birmingham Sunlights. This September 22nd the Birmingham
Sunlights will receive a National Heritage
Fellowship for master folk and traditional artists in a ceremony in
Washington D. C. from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). On the
24th of September they will preform at the 2009 NEA National Heritage
Fellowships Concert. In this interview James and Barry describe the history
of their group, its members and the travels they have experienced singing
and representing Alabama in Africa, France, Italy and the United States.
Musical examples of their singing are presented as well.
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Kelly Barsdate, Chief Program
and Planning Officer for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
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9-06-2009
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In this program Barbara Edwards interviews Kelly Barsdate.
Ms. Barsdate is the Chief Program and Planning Officer for the National
Assembly of State Arts Agencies in Washingon, DC. She was a presenter at
the Council’s 2009 Bill Bates Leadership Institute and discusses some of
the topics she advanced at the Institute concerning Arts Participation.
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Robert Stewart, Director of the Alabama Humanities
Foundation
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8-30-2009
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Joey Brackner
interviews Robert Stewart, Director of
the Alabama Humanities Foundation, about the AHF mission and their
programs including SUPER, the
speakers bureau and grants to organizations.
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David Davis of the Warrior River Boys
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8-23-2009
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Bluegrass musician David
Davis talks with Deborah Boykin about his musical
influences, including shapenote singing, Charlie Louvin, and
his uncle, Cleo Davis, one
of Bill Monroe's
original Bluegrass Boys. He also discusses his experiences as
leader of the Warrior River Boys,
one of Alabama's most prominent bluegrass bands. The program includes
music from their latest CD, Two
Dimes and a Nickle.
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Wanda Robertson
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8-16-2009
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This week Anne Kimzey,
folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews quilter
Wanda Robertson of Florence about teaching quilt making in the Alabama Folk
Arts Apprenticeship Program. Two of her students also discuss
their experiences during the program.
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Bill
Ivey
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8-09-2009
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This program is a rebroadcast
of Arts Council Executive Director Al Head interviewing 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 book
published last year, arts, inc.: How Greed
and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights.
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Theodore
Arthur, Jr.
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8-02-2009
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This week Anne Kimzey,
folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews jazz and
blues musician and bandleader Theodore
Arthur, Jr., of Mobile about his music career and his recent tour of
Europe and the Middle East. Several of his music students join
him during the program.
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George
Devours
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7-26-2009
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George Devours, musician and
promoter talks with Deborah Boykin about the Blackwater Bluegrass
Festival and his experiences in bluegrass music, including the Brushy Creek
festivals of the 1970's and his friendship with bluegrass legend Earl
Scruggs.
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Foster
Dixon
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7-19-2009
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Arts in Education Program
Manager, Diana Green interviews Foster Dixon, creative writing instructor
at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama.
Mr. Dixon was named a 2009 Surdna Foundation Arts Teaching
Fellow. During this interview he explains his proposed project for
which he won the fellowship.
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Martha
Pullen
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7-12-2009
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Heirloom sewing is the subject
of this week’s program on Alabama Arts Radio. Folklorist Anne Kimzey
interviews Martha Pullen of
Huntsville, an internationally-known sewing teacher, author, publisher and
host of public television’s popular show Martha’s Sewing
Room.
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Kathryn
Tucker Windham
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7-05-2009
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Joey Brackner interviews
Kathryn Tucker Windham at her home in Selma about homecomings, unique
graveyards and unusual grave stones.
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Sebastian
Matthews
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6-30-2009
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Jeanie Thompson, executive
director of the Alabama Writers’
Forum, interviews poet and editor Sebastian Matthews, who appeared at
the April 18 Alabama Book Festival. Matthews is the author of the poetry
collection We Generous
(Red Hen Press) and a memoir about his poet father, the late William
Matthews, In My Father’s Footsteps. He co-edited, with Stanley
Plumly, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews. Matthews
teaches at Warren Wilson College and serves on the faculty at Queens
College Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing. His poetry and prose has
appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, and on
The Writer’s Almanac, among others. Matthews co-edits Rivendell, a place-based
literary journal, and serves as poetry consultant for Ecotone:
Re-Imagining Place.
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Blue Note Five
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6-23-2009
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Steve Grauberger interviews
Eric Newby, Thomas Kelly, Gerald Johnson, Charles Draper and Willie Jordan
of the Huntsville Police Department's Blue Note Five a cappella quartet
(quintet) group. Selections from their CD are included.
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Fred
Kuwornu Filmmaker
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6-16-2009
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The Alabama State Council on
the Arts sponsored a cultural exchange program with the City of
Pietrasanta, Italy April 16-May 2. Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director,
interviews Fred Kuwornu, an Italian filmmaker. Mr. Kuwornu wrote and
directed a historical documentary entitled "Inside
Buffalo." This documentary uncovers the historical and human
events of the 92nd Division of the American Army, nicknamed Buffalo
Soldiers. During the cultural exchange this documentary had its premiere
screening at the Capri Theatre in Montgomery.
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New
Dance Drama, from Pietrasanta, Italy
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6-09-2009
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As part of the Council’s
International Exchange in April 2009, Diana Green interviews members of the
New Dance Drama, from Pietrasanta,
Italy. This Graham based modern dance company, with artistic director
Adria Ferrali, spent three weeks in residency, rehearsing at the Montgomery
Ballet studios, teaching and performing at Alabama State University, and
performing as part of the sculpture Festival in Sylacauga. Adria Ferrali is joined in the
interview by her dancers Thomas Johansen, Angelica Stella, and Sabrina
Davini.
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Bruce Walker and Joseph Trimble of the Alabama Storytelling Association.
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6-02-2009
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Alabama Center for Traditional
Culture director Joey Brackner interviews Bruce Walker and Joseph Trimble
of the Alabama Storytelling
Association.
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Betsy Irwin and Jay McGirt
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5-26-2009
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Alabama Center for Traditional
Culture director Joey Brackner interviews Betsy Irwin of Moundville Archaeological Park
and Creek Indian weaver Jay McGirt about Indian art and the creation of new
exhibits for the Moundville Museum.
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Terry Norris
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5-19-2009
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In this program Community Arts
Program Manager Randy Shoults interviews Terry Norris, founding President
of the Grove Hill
Arts Council (GHAC). They discuss the various programs, events
and town mural project sponsored by the GHAC.
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2009 Alabama Folk Heritage Award Winner the late
Willie King
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5-12-2009
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To honor the late Willie King
as the 2009
Alabama Folk Heritage Award winner 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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Arts Award winner Beth Nielson Chapman
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5-05-2009
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2009 Distinguished Artist Award
winner Beth Nielsen Chapman is interviewed by Arts Council Executive
Director Al Head 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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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3-17-2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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2-03-2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Oklahoma.
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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07-17-2007
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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10-10-2006
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