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Information
Festival Staff
The Great Lakes Folk Festival
is produced by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program/Michigan State University
Museum
- C. Kurt Dewhurst: Founding Director and Consulting Curator
- David Genord: Web Development
- Lora Helou: Marketing and Communications Director
- LuAnne Kozma: Coordinator, Children's Area
Julie Levy-Weston: Festival Associate Director, Interim Volunteer
Coordinator, Web Site Maintenance
Yvonne Lockwood: Curator, Traditional Foods and Michigan Traditional
Arts Apprenticeship Program Coordinator, Michigan Heritage Awards Program
Marsha MacDowell: Founding and Artistic Director
Bill Matt: Festival Director
Julia Meade: Public Relations Assistant
Caitlin Miller: Festival Assistant
Kris Morrissey: Festival Evaluation Coordinator
Emma Pontious: Festival Volunteer Coordinator
Pat Power: Coordinator, Performer Booking and Services
Erin Slayter: Director of Development
Lynne Swanson: Coordinator, Guilds program area
Ami VanAntwerp: City of East Lansing Festival Liaison
Sunny Wang: Computer Specialist
Pearl Yee Wong: Collections Coordinator, Photographer
The Michigan Traditional Arts Program at the Michigan State University Museum,
a partnership program with the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs,
advances cross-cultural understanding and equity in a diverse society through
the documentation, preservation, and presentation of folk arts and folklife
in Michigan. For more information, call 517-355-0368 or write Michigan Traditional
Arts Program, Michigan State University Museum, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1045.
GLFF Music Selection and Community
Advisory Committees
Selection of performers for the Great Lakes Folk Festival is made by a core
curatorial committee consisting of a small group of music specialists from
Michigan State University, Elderly Instruments, and The Ten Pound Fiddle.
These individuals are well acquainted with a wide array of traditional music
forms and have extensive experience with what music forms the GLFF audiences
enjoy hearing.
Members of the Great Lakes Folk Festival Music
Selection Committee for 2006 are:
- Dr. Yvonne Lockwood, Senior Folklife Specialist, MSU Museum
(specialist in Eastern European and Middle-Eastern music)
- Dr. Marsha MacDowell, Coordinator, Michigan Traditional Arts
Program
- Pat Power, MSU Museum/Great Lakes Folk Festival Booking Coordinator,
singer/songwriter and former booking coordinator for the Ten Pound Fiddle
In addition to the above, the Great Lakes Folk Festival staff relies heavily
on suggestions from colleagues who are specialists in traditional music
of both the region and the nation.
For the 2006 Great Lakes Folk Festival, we
gratefully acknowledge the assistance of:
- Bob Blackman, Host, "The Folk Tradition" WKAR-FM (http://wkar.org/folktradition/)
- Dr. Noel Allende-Goitia, Visiting Instructor, MSU Department
of Music
- Dr. Isaac Kalumbu, Assoc. Professor, MSU Department of Music
(specialist in African music), musician
- Dr. Michael Largey, Assoc. Professor, MSU Department of Music
(specialist in Haitian music and music of the African diaspora in the
Caribbean)
- Dr. Laurie Sommers, Asst. Professor, Valdosta State University,
Georgia; former ethnomusicologist/folklorist for Festival of Michigan
Folklife
- Dr. Deborah Smith Pollard, Asst. Professor, University of Michigan-Dearborn;
Host, "Strong Inspirations," WJLB-FM 98; specialist in African-American
gospel music
- Dr. Jim Leary, Director, Upper Midwest Humanities Center/University
of Wisconsin-Madison, co-co-producer, "Down Home Dairyland" radio program (http://arts.state.wi.us/static/downhome.htm)
- Dr. Mark Sullivan, Assoc. Professor, MSU Department of Music
(specialist in Haitian music and music of the African diaspora in the
Caribbean)
- Dr. Timothy Lloyd, Executive Director, American Folklore Society; (http://afsnet.org/aboutAFS/aboutAFS.cfm)
former director of CityFolk Festival, Dayton; and board member, National
Council for Traditional Arts
- Dr. Richard March, Folk Arts Coordinator, Wisconsin Arts Board
and co-producer, "Down Home Dairyland" radio program (http://arts.state.wi.us/static/downhome.htm)
- Julia Olin, Executive Director, National Council for theTraditional
Arts (http://www.ncta.net/)
- Dr. Dan Sheehy, Director, Folkways, Smithsonian Institution
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage; ethnomusicologist and mariachi
musician (http://www.folkways.si.edu/)
- Dr. Nick Spitzer, Host, "American Routes" (http://www.americanroutes.org/)
The Great Lakes Folk Festival Community Advisory Committee also provides
invaluable input into the music selection process. Because of their interest
in helping to make the Great Lakes Folk Festival our region's best offering
of traditional music, these individuals bring to the process either an understanding
of local audience preferences or their own special niche of expertise in
music.
Members of the Great Lakes Folk Festival Community
Advisory Committee for 2006 are:
- Tony "Chayo" Cervantes, Host "Ondas en Espanol," WKAR-AM (http://wkar.org/radio/ondas/)
- Wanda Degen, East Lansing Arts Festival music programmer, musician
- Ronald Eggleston, Capital Area Blues Society (http://cabsblues.homestead.com/home.html)
- Irene J. Henry, Michigan Department of Management and Budget/Office
of Design and Construction
- Dr. Peter Knupfer, MSU MATRIX/H-Net, Wisconsin champion fiddle
player
- Steve Kwiecinski, polka music specialist
- Doug Neal, Host, "Progressive Torch and Twang" WDBM 88.9 FM
(http://www.msu.edu/~depolo/index2.html)
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Chris Rietz, Elderly Instruments (http://www.elderly.com)
G. Yvette Robinson, City of East Lansing Arts Commission
Andrea S. Rutledge, City of East Lansing Arts Commission
Ami Van Antwerp, City of East Lansing
Stan Werbin, owner, Elderly Instruments (http://www.elderly.com)
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Suggestions?
The Great Lakes Folk Festival staff welcome your suggestions of
traditional artists you think would be good for the festival. The
core selection committee will review suggestions and, if appropriate,
add those suggestions to the list of potential artists. Please feel
free to call or send Pat Power, Booking Coordinator, your suggestions
at 517-432-GLFF or glffbooking@museum.msu.edu
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