Thursday, October 10, 2013
What’s NEW! for 2014 – 2015
North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble joins Loyd Artists for the tap company’s 30th anniversary year! NCYTE is considered one of the world’s finest youth tap ensembles touring the country and the world sharing their unique mix of cutting edged contemporary choreography and traditional rhythm tap spiced with singing, pencil drumming, beat boxing, body percussion and even Taiko drumming. They appear in venues including the Kennedy Center, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, and tap festivals from Vancouver, Canada to Mexico.
Doug Berky opens his newest large mask theater show, “Foibles, Fables and Other Imaskinations” at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, October 2013, in Cincinnati, Ohio. This performance for families and youth 8 years to 15 years includes The Tiger's Whisker, a Korean folktale about healing; A Simple Gift, a French story; and The Crocodile and the Monkey, an Eastern Indian Jataka Tale.
Hobey Ford’s Golden Rod Puppets tour “Migration” for a second successful season! This production is great for small theaters with less than 500 seats and includes an innovative blend of puppetry, painting, photography, animation and storytelling, all created by Hobey Ford. Hobey tells the story of migrating animals through the eyes of Beatriz, a young Mexican girl who is making her own journey, concluding the performance with stories of amazing animal migrations around the planet performed by his original puppets.
Billy Jonas and the Billy Jonas Band are busy recording! Jonas’ next family CD is due to be released in 2014. The CD includes all original, new music such as “Build It Back Again” (title track), “Maybe, Maybe Not”, “Monkey’s Driving Cars” and “The Greatest Song In the World”. Billy is also recording a Jewish influenced world music CD and planning a concert of Jewish music to carry audiences through the Jewish ritual year with song.
Scott Ainslie is working on a new recording project for release in the Spring of 2014, tentatively titled "1934 Gibson." Including early blues from Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and David Honeyboy Edwards, Ainslie is letting the little 1934 archtop Gibson 'choose' the songs - recording tracks that suit the guitar and/or would have been around when the guitar was young. Ainslie is also offering a new multi-media concert: The Land Where the Blues Began: Images and Music of the Mississippi Delta. Scott Ainslie has combed the Library of Congress photo archives and combined archival photos with his own images of the Mississippi Delta for a concert tour that explores this formative region of the American South, featuring songs from Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, David Honeyboy Edwards, and Lonnie Johnson.
Farmer Jason’s newest PBS interstitials are popping up in communities around the country while Jason’s amazing career was recently highlighted in a two-part interview on NPR’s In Search of a Song. And get ready to enjoy Christmas on the farm, Farmer Jason style, with a holiday concert available beginning in 2014. Farmer Jason will sing songs from this new critically acclaimed CHRISTMAS ON THE FARM WITH FARMER JASON record, other Holiday classics, and some of the more popular
songs from his regular catalogue.
Roger Day’s “Marsh Mud Madness” project with Savannah Music Festival and the University of Georgia Sea Grant Foundation continues to excite audiences around the country. In 2013, a CD and DVD were released. This family and children’s concert can be performed solo or with a small band and features Day’s original music commissioned to teach families and school children about the Atlantic sea coast ecology. Grab your waders and join in the fun!
Allan Wolf’s “The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices From the Titanic”was chosen as the North Carolina School Media Book of the Year by middle school students. In his “Voices From the Titanic” performances (for 3rd grade and up, adults and families), Wolf immerses his audience in the world of 1912 through historical photographs, documents, costumes, and props. This engaging performance uses storytelling, music and poetry as well as participation pieces and readers’ theatre to transform the listeners into Titanic passengers and crew of every rank and class. Even a ship rat and the iceberg itself come to life!
Paul Taylor offers two new performances of traditional instruments, song, story and dance in “Wonders Down Under, Australian Music & Stories”. Also, Paul is mentored by Aboriginal custodian Yidumduma Bill Harney and, with his permission, presents “Bush University”, featuring rock art with creation stories, chants and traditional instruments from the Northern Territory of Australia. Paul was a state finalist for Australian of the Year in 2013 for his work preserving and presenting the Wardaman culture of the area.
North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble joins Loyd Artists for the tap company’s 30th anniversary year! NCYTE is considered one of the world’s finest youth tap ensembles touring the country and the world sharing their unique mix of cutting edged contemporary choreography and traditional rhythm tap spiced with singing, pencil drumming, beat boxing, body percussion and even Taiko drumming. They appear in venues including the Kennedy Center, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, and tap festivals from Vancouver, Canada to Mexico.
Doug Berky opens his newest large mask theater show, “Foibles, Fables and Other Imaskinations” at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, October 2013, in Cincinnati, Ohio. This performance for families and youth 8 years to 15 years includes The Tiger's Whisker, a Korean folktale about healing; A Simple Gift, a French story; and The Crocodile and the Monkey, an Eastern Indian Jataka Tale.
Hobey Ford’s Golden Rod Puppets tour “Migration” for a second successful season! This production is great for small theaters with less than 500 seats and includes an innovative blend of puppetry, painting, photography, animation and storytelling, all created by Hobey Ford. Hobey tells the story of migrating animals through the eyes of Beatriz, a young Mexican girl who is making her own journey, concluding the performance with stories of amazing animal migrations around the planet performed by his original puppets.
Billy Jonas and the Billy Jonas Band are busy recording! Jonas’ next family CD is due to be released in 2014. The CD includes all original, new music such as “Build It Back Again” (title track), “Maybe, Maybe Not”, “Monkey’s Driving Cars” and “The Greatest Song In the World”. Billy is also recording a Jewish influenced world music CD and planning a concert of Jewish music to carry audiences through the Jewish ritual year with song.
Scott Ainslie is working on a new recording project for release in the Spring of 2014, tentatively titled "1934 Gibson." Including early blues from Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and David Honeyboy Edwards, Ainslie is letting the little 1934 archtop Gibson 'choose' the songs - recording tracks that suit the guitar and/or would have been around when the guitar was young. Ainslie is also offering a new multi-media concert: The Land Where the Blues Began: Images and Music of the Mississippi Delta. Scott Ainslie has combed the Library of Congress photo archives and combined archival photos with his own images of the Mississippi Delta for a concert tour that explores this formative region of the American South, featuring songs from Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, David Honeyboy Edwards, and Lonnie Johnson.
Farmer Jason’s newest PBS interstitials are popping up in communities around the country while Jason’s amazing career was recently highlighted in a two-part interview on NPR’s In Search of a Song. And get ready to enjoy Christmas on the farm, Farmer Jason style, with a holiday concert available beginning in 2014. Farmer Jason will sing songs from this new critically acclaimed CHRISTMAS ON THE FARM WITH FARMER JASON record, other Holiday classics, and some of the more popular
songs from his regular catalogue.
Roger Day’s “Marsh Mud Madness” project with Savannah Music Festival and the University of Georgia Sea Grant Foundation continues to excite audiences around the country. In 2013, a CD and DVD were released. This family and children’s concert can be performed solo or with a small band and features Day’s original music commissioned to teach families and school children about the Atlantic sea coast ecology. Grab your waders and join in the fun!
Allan Wolf’s “The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices From the Titanic”was chosen as the North Carolina School Media Book of the Year by middle school students. In his “Voices From the Titanic” performances (for 3rd grade and up, adults and families), Wolf immerses his audience in the world of 1912 through historical photographs, documents, costumes, and props. This engaging performance uses storytelling, music and poetry as well as participation pieces and readers’ theatre to transform the listeners into Titanic passengers and crew of every rank and class. Even a ship rat and the iceberg itself come to life!
Paul Taylor offers two new performances of traditional instruments, song, story and dance in “Wonders Down Under, Australian Music & Stories”. Also, Paul is mentored by Aboriginal custodian Yidumduma Bill Harney and, with his permission, presents “Bush University”, featuring rock art with creation stories, chants and traditional instruments from the Northern Territory of Australia. Paul was a state finalist for Australian of the Year in 2013 for his work preserving and presenting the Wardaman culture of the area.