LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS JULY 28, 29, 30, 1989 5 1ST N ATIONAL F OLK F ESTIVAL l .1,well. Massachusetts .July 28. 2!), :m. 1989 l'ro<.lut;ed by t he National Counc il fo r the Traditio nal Arts l.owell National His to rical Park l<<'gatta Festival Co mmit Ice City o f l.o wl'II
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The organizing Schedule: Sunday, July 30 ...... 8 peoi>lc who really make a L UCY LARCOM MARKET STREET E VENING JFK PLAZA M ARKET MILLS SHATTUCK STREET PARADES & EVENING PARK PARK C ONCERT I COURTYARD CRAFTS AREA FooDs CONCERT ~------Ll-12-,0-0______12:00 ------1------1------5:30 PM CARIBBEAN Irish Music & Dance 12:00 • I 2:00 to 5:00 PM *FOODWAYS DEMONSTRA *7:30 PM EVENING CONCERT i~~~lional Greek Music Gennun-Ru.s.sian Du/ch Hop Piedmont Blues & Ragtime Ongoing demonstrations with TIONS by Lithuanian, German, at South Common DANCE PARTY g~~~~llan with Caledonia Set Levendcs Orchestra 1~:;'i~cFritzl er & the Polka Band John Jackson master makers of traditional lrlsh, Indian, Greek, Spanish, with Bllnky & the Roadmosters crafts Including: Polish and French-Canadian Doc Paulin's Dixieland Jazz at JFK Plaza 12:30 cooks wlll take place at 1:00, Band 12:45 ------Traditional Sicilian Music BASKETMAKING-Jamaican - 2:00, 3:00, and 4:00 PM at the Los Cantores Guaranies 12:45 12:45 SlclllaAntlca Celestine Anderson, Micmac In I Intersection of Shattuck and Klezmer Plus 7:00 PM NEW ORLEANS Pmnguayan Folk Music A Cappel/a Go.spel Mu.sic French-Canadian Music & Dance dian- Don, Mary & David San~ Market Streets. Cuchullan with Caledonia Set STREET PARADE led by the Los Cantores Guaranies L'Ensemble Quebecois with Birmingham Sunlights 1:00 pass. Dancers Mardi Gras Indians and Doc Nicole Bombardie r & Cara Portuguese Fado ETHNIC FOOD BOOTHS Bllnky & the Roadmasters Blaise Paulln's Dixieland Jazz Band 1:15 Ana Vinagre, Manuel Leite & MARITIME CRAfTS- sail mak Food will be sold throughout Alison Krauss & Union Station (rom JFK Plaza to the South New Orleans Parade Traditions Alvaro Medeiros ing- Steve Sperry, dory building the festival by over 20 different Mardi Gras Indians Common evening concert. Jim & George Odell, net making groups from the Regatta Ethnic *Sign language Interpretation 1:30 1:30 Come join the second line! 1:30 R. Salve Testaverde, duck decoy Food Committee. Food booths Virgin Islands Quadrille & Louisiana Cajun Music Cowboy & Yankee making- Bob Brophy. will be located at JFK Plaza, Scratch Music 2:00 Beausoleil Poetry by Wally McRae & Mac Lucy Larcom Park, and on Mar •7:30 PM EVENING CONCERT Slinky & the Roadmast ers French-Canadian Music in Parker METAI..WORKING ket street, between 11 :00 AM at South Common Lowell coppersmithirli, Arnold Cyr, and 5:00 PM on Saturday and 2: 15 Les FrancerAmericains 2:15 Jo hn Fritzler & the Polka Band 2:15 blacksmithing- Michael Sunday. Bluegrass Music East European Jewish Dance Hallsenlus, silversmithing John Jackson Yankee Fiddle Tunes AJison Krauss & Union Station 2:30 Music Harold .. Chuck" Luce with Nick Frank Kulik. 3:30 NEW ORLEANS STREET Polish Highlanders Polish Mountain Music and Klezmer Plus Hawes 1------I PARADE with Doc Paulin's L'Ensemble Queb&-ois Dance MUSICAi.. iNSTRUMENT Dixieland Jazz Band. Join the Birmingham Sunlights Polish Highlanders 2:45 MAKING- Cambodian- Phan Bin I Second Une! Begins at the in Beausoleil Texas Country Blues & Ballads & Mouk Phon, violin maki~ tersection of Shattuck and Mar 3:00 Bill Neely Jon Cooper, Puetto Rican cuatro ket Streets. Accordion Styles Workshop making- Henry Deleon. *Sign language interpretation 3:15 Raynald Ouellet- French-Cana 3:15 3:15 Traditional Greek Music dian, Camillo Maccaluso- ltal Piedmont Blues & Ragtime Carnival Traditions Workshop TEXTILE CRAFI'S-rug hooking Levendes Orchestra ian, James Keane- Irish, Jimmy John Jackson Cajun - Mike Doucet, Virgin Is- Barbara Merry & Cleland Selby, Breaux- Cajun, John Fritzler lands -Sylvester "Slinky" Mein- Lowell Textile Mill Workers, German-Russian tosh & Mardi Gras lndlan - New England Quilting Bee. Chief Jake Millon AND MORE-lnsh roof thatch1ng 3:45 3:45 Wllllam, Michael & Anthony A Cappella Gospel Music Cowboy & Yankee Cahill, Jewish papercutting- Di I Birmingham Sunlights Poetry by Wally McRae & Mac ane Palley, Lithuanian straw ------r4:00 Parker working-Aldana Saimininkas, 4:00 Vietnamese dragon mask mak Cambodian Music & Dance Portuguese Fado Music ing- Hiep Lam. Lowell Cambodian Dance I Ana Vinagre, Manuel Leite & 4:15 Troupe & Music Ensemble Alvaro Medeiros Polish Podhale Music and Dance *Sign language Interpretation 1__ Polish Highlanders available for selected crafts 4:30 4:30 and foodways demonstrations 1----- _ Traditional Sicilian Music Yankee Fiddle Tunes and daytime performances. 4:45 j Sicilia Antica 4:45 Harold "Chuck" Luce with Nick Please check with Information Quebecois Music & Dance Gennan-Russian Dutch Hop Hawes booth for schedule. L'Ensemble Quebecois with Music Nicol e Bombardier & Cara 1 s,oo John Fritzler & the Polka Band 5:00 Blaise I Texas <:ountry Blues & Ballads French-Canadian Music irr I Bill Neely Lowell 5:30 PM CAJUN DANCE-PARTY Les Franco-Amerlcalns with Beausoleil I 7:00 PM PARADE with Viet namese Dragon Dancers and I Mardi Gras Indians from JFK Plaza to South Common eve ning concert . 0 SCHEDULE SUNDAY , JULY 30 LUCY LARCOM MARKET STREET MARKET M ILLS JFK PLAZA SHKrTUCK STREET PARADES & EXHIBITS RAIN PARK PARK COURTYARD CRAFTS AREA FooDs LOCATIONS t2:00 12:00 12:00 t2:00 • I 2:00 lo 5:00 PM Gospel Mu Cambodian Folk Dance & Music Paraguayan Harp & Vocal Music 'FOODWAYS DEMONSTRA Two lolk art exhibits have Evening Concerts - Louisiana Tmditions sic with Ongoing demonstrations with Birmingham Sunlight Lowell Cambodian Dance Los Cantores Guaranles TIONS by Lithuanian. German, opened in conjunction with the Memorial Auditorium Mnrdl Gros lmllnns s master makers of traditional Troupe & Music Ensemble Irish, Indian, Greek, Spanish, festival. Both are located in JFK Plaza- 8111 Neely crafts Including: John Jackson 12:30 Polish and French-Canadian the Market Mills Courtyard Memorial Auditorium Alison Krauss & Union Station Portuguese Fado Music cooks will take place at t :00. complex. 12:30 BASKETMAKING-Jamaican • Luc.,y Larcom Park - Ana Vinagre, Manuel Leite 2:00, 3:00 and 4:00 PM at the In "Sacred Spaces: The Spiritual Beausoleil & Celestine Anderson, Micmac In Lowell High School 12:45 Alvaro Medeiros tersection of Shattuck and Mar in Folk Art" - An exhibition of dian- Don. Ma,y & David Sani Auditorium 1 Qu~bGreek Folk Music Yankee Fiddle Tunes September 17 at the New Eng Lucy Larcom Park and on Mar t :45 Levendes Orchestra Harold "Chuck" Luce with Nick METALWORK.ING- cop land Quilt Museum, 256 Market Pamguayan Harp Music ket Street, between I t:00 AM Hawes persmithing-Arnold Cyr, Street Los Cantores Guaranles and 5:00 PM on Saturday and blacksmithing- Michael Sunday. 2:00 2:00 Ha11senius, silversmithing- Frank East European Jewish Dance 2:15 2:15 French-Canadian Music in Kulik. 1:30 PM PARADE with Blinky Music Fiddle Styles Workshop Irish Music & Dance Lowell and the Roadmasters and the Klezmer Plus W. Zarskl, W. Masnlak & Z. Cuchullan with Caledonia Set Les FrancerAmerlcains MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Mardi Masniak-Pollsh, Michael Gras Indians. Begins at Dancers MAKING- Cambodian- Phan Bin the Doucet- Cajun, Jean-Marie intersection of Shattuck 2:30 & Mouk Phon, violin making and Market Streets. Verret- French-Canadian Traditional Sicilian Songs & Jon Cooper, Puerto Rican cuatro 2:45 2:45 Music making- Henry Del.eon. 3:30 Bluegrass Music PM NEW ORLEAN'S German-Russian Dutch Hop SiclllaAntlca STREET PARADE with Doc Alison Krauss & Union Station Music TEXTILE CRAFTS-rug hooking Paulin's Dixieland Jazz Band. I 3:()() John Fritzler & the Polka Band 3:00 Barbara Mer,y & Cleland Selby, Begins at the Qu~becois Music & Dance intersection of Portuguese Fado Music Lowell Textile Mill Workers. Shattuck and Markel Streets. L'Ensemble Quebecois with Ni Ana Vinagre, Manuel Leite & New England Quilting Bee. cole Bombardier & Cara Blaise I Alvaro Medeiros -- AND MORE-Irish roof thatch 3:30 3:30 3:30 ing- William, Michael & An Gospel Quartet Singing Traditional Sicilian Music Yankee Fiddle Tunes thony Cahill, Jewish papercut Birmingham 1 Sunlights 3:45 SiciliaAntlca Harold "Chuck" Luce with Nick ting- Diane Palley, Lithuanian Cowboy & Yankee Hawes straw working-Aldana Poet,y by Wally McRae & Mac Saimininkas. Vietnamese Parker 4:00 4:00 4:00 dragon mask making- Hiep Lam. Traditional Greek Music East European Jewish Dance French-Canadian Music in Levendes Orchestra 1 4:t5 Music Lowell *Sign language interpretation Irish Music & Dance Klezmer Plus Les Franco-Americains available for selected crafts Cuchullan with Caledonia Set and foodways demonstrations Dance 4:30 and daytime performances. Song Swap Please check with information 4:45 4:45 f 4:45 John Jackson & Neely booth lor schedule. Vi'l!in Islands Quadrille & Bluegrass 1 BIii Music Louisiana Cajun Music Scratch Music Alison Krauss & Union Station Bllnky & the Roadmasters I Beausoleil 5:30PM "DlITCH HOP" POLKA DANCE PARTY with John Fritzler & the Polka Band 5 1ST N ATIONAL F OLK M AP F ESTIVAL - P ERFORMERS l 'hulm from Ir.fl lfl tiglil /lm11/ug/mm .'i11111/gh11. 111,utu by Mefls.1!1 S11,i,11,.,,, /Jpuuiolr.11, 11liu111 /1y ffI rk (N/ulf'r Syfor.slet "/Jllnlty · Mc/11111.d,, 1,l11.1/u by /Jr.fh!t 111.JtlHf's BEAUSOLEIL percussion and Tommy Alesl's drums son County, Alabama," which h as been Beausoleil translates as .. beautiful sun drive the band. Tommy Comeaux. on man broadcast throughout Europe. and have shine." It's also the name of an 18th cen dolin and bass. and A l Tharp on banjo add made concert tours to Detroit and Chi tury Acadlan r ebel leader, and it's for elements not normally found In Cajun cago. This fall they will be touring In Af Beausoleil Broussard that M ichael Doucet, bands. rica under the auspices of the Arts Amer founder, fiddler and passionate vocalist for Beausoleil has recorded a dozen or so ica program of the United States Informa the band, named the group. The name is albums for Arhoolie and Rounder, the lat tion Agency. T heir lar gest and most enthu EASTERN also symbolic o f the music Michael and est of which, .. Bayou Cadillac," has just siastic following. however. is right In Jeffer CANAL Beausoleil have created - deeply rooted in been r eleased. Michael and David have a son County. wher e they have rejuvenated ~- PARK Cajun tradition. while pushing b ack the recent tape, "'Cajun Fiddle, .. and are ap the gospel quartet scene. -l frontiers of the genre. pearing on the National Council for the Since their inception nearly fifteen years T raditi onal Arts' "Masters of the Folk Vier BLINKY THE ROADMASTERS Merrimack S1, & ago, Beausoleil has developed into the pre- lin." touring in various parts of the nation, Slinky and the Roadmasters are a band mier b and in Southwest Louisiana and the next a run up the ..sh akey side," from San from St. Croix i n the U.S. Virgin Islands. led M1ddtes1. leading ambassador of Cajun music Diego to Seattle, in October and Novem by saxophonist Sylvester .. Slinky" M cIn around the world. They play the dance ber. tosh. renowned Island musician and recip i BfO&dw•vSt music which typifies Cajun bands - two ent of the National Endowment for the steps and waltzes - as well as anyone BIRMINGHAM SUNLIGHTS Arts' National Heritage Fellowship Award around, but It's their use of other material - The Birmingham Sunlights are a dynamic in 1987. T hey play traditional Crucian MARKET blues, ballads, medieval French dance young gospel quartet dedicated t o main (from St. Croix) m usic regularly at qua MILLS W arren St. PARK tunes, New Orleans R&B and earlier Cajun taining the art or unaccompanied four part drille dances, festivals, private parties and MARKET * forms - that sets them apart and makes gospel harmony singing. As their name nightclubs around the island. MILLS them unique. This r eflects the v ision suggests, they COURTYARD of come from Birmingham in The music is sometimes called Michael Doucet, who has spent m ost of his Jefferson County, Alabama, a place w ith a .. scratch." taking it s name from t he gourd life delving into the origins of Cajun music, long tradition of brilliance in this musical I rasp. or squash. that i s a distinctive part of studying with the older m asters such as form. the rhythm in the band. Other instru Denis McGee and Canray Fontenot. and Actually, the Sunlights have five mem ments traditionally Include the steel (tri- searching out early 78 rpm records and bers as do many of the gospel '"quartets" in 1 angle). guitar. bass. conga drums and cane unaccompanied ballad singer s while at the this tradition. They consist of James Alex flute, though in recent years the sa.xer same time constantly aware of the other Taylor, the leader and arranger, singing phone has played a major r ole, lar gely re-- musical forms around him - jazz, country. lead and tenor: Barry Leon Taylor, singing placing the flute. R&B and rock and roll. All of th is becomes bass; Steve Allen Taylor, singing lead and Sylvester began p laying guitar In his fa reasonable repertoire for Beausoleil. In baritone; Wayne Williams, singing lead and I ther's band when he was fifteen and Michael's wor ds, "I'm Interested in show baritone and Reginald Speights, singing learned a wealth o f traditional songs and Ing people the possibilities. If you t ake a tenor and baritone. melodies from his mother, a fine keeper of ;;j medieval song and turn it towards jazz and Over the past d ozen years, the Sunlights the vocal tradition. He also became In then t owards Cajun, you're showing the have taken advantage of the opportunity volved In the -wild Indians," a masquerade s""""S'- l PERFORMANC E ,., FOOD I strength of the music, not Its failings." to study with the older quartet masters in SOUTH COMMON " STAGE troupe active in carnival celebrations. In (evening concerts) Of course, they allow Michael to lead, their area such as the Sterling Jubilee Sing the mid-50s he organized his first "scrat ch" Et] RAIN SITES but the other m embers of Bea * FIRST AID, usoleil are as ers and the Shelby County Big Four, I band. the Pond Bush H ot Shots, and \l.'ent Bl u ,., ~ LOST&FOUND Integral a part of the group's unique groups w ith decad es of singing experience. on In the 60s to play lead saxophone with GALLAGHER PARKING TRANSPORTATION iii sound. David Doucet, Michael's brother i s To this thorough grounding In the tradi the Joe Parris Hot Sho ts, the Island 's lead TERIMNAL * MOTHER'S a soulful, dynamic singer, and h is guitar i s tion they have added a number of Impres Ing quadrille band, recording three albums REST STOP .. REST ROOMS so Integrated Into his b rother's violin play sive original compositions Influenced by Iwi th them In the 70s. Blinky formed the Aft Ing that at times he seems to be playing a the classic quartets of the 50s and 60s, par Roadmasters In the early 80s, taking l he second fiddle. David has obviously bor ticularly the Soul Stirrers and the Sensa name from his ~ ~ii~~:~~,:> ACCESS daytime Job as a roact crew rowed a lick or two from Doc Watson, but tlonal Nightingales. YIICA Bl Ib oss 01>eratlng heavy equipment. In the last ten years he's created his own l The Birmingham Sunlights were fea T he Ron 1"C'll.hullanJ""'"">lonfo ." .l.rnmin 4'-on John Fnt:Jrr.f thf! lblltu / 1'1,,.-hu/lunJ /Jund J,m1,•1 1.·,..,,,.. .John.J,~luun rn1o·hullnn1 p/lolo COllrft'lf uf '"'"'c,.,.,.," "' -"•·11 Sn111h1un11Jr1 lrumu11on plays gt.Illar for Los Cantorcs Guaranles. In clucllng an excellent solo album. Gordon on bass. Isidore Grlles on steel. four different Instruments. Seamus· sisters Qu~becois style. on four instruments: accordion, hammered Paraguay. his country of birth. Juan played Seam us Connolly moved to the Boston Cyprian King on guitar. and Frank Charles are also musically talented, and the three Raymond Belanger, also a Lowellian by dulcimer. trombone, and bass or piano. As In various tractlllonal Paraguayan folk mu area In 1976 from his home In Klllaloe, on banjo uke. perform together at concerts and festivals birth, has been the guitarist for Les Franc !Lvendes Orr.he.11ro Kl<' 1111cr /Ym lou,-e/1 Cambodian Dunce Trou~ Aluon Knm.u nn,/ pha/o by JtJmes lli//8ins 1/n l,m S/ulinn Jfarold "Chucll" U/u phula IJy Nick JfaWf!s has worked and recorded with the Original more concerned with vocals than instru and started to raise n rnmlly. In 1950 he ten referred to as the "golden age" o( body, Massachusetts, who have been per 1975 Communist take-over of Cambodia mental arrangement, more concerned with followed an older sister's example and kl ezmcr. Since the l 970s lhc form has Klezmer Jazz Band and Klezmer Plus, forming for twenty-eight years. During when all religious celebrations were pro depth of expression than speed. It Is not a moved to then rural Falrfn.~ County 111 been undergoing a tremendous revival among others. Bassist Jim Guttman, who that time they have played as far north as hibited. bit self-conscious about using the music of search of a better life. He built a home and throughout the country. lives In the Boston area, has been active In Canada, south to the Bahamas and At the time of the Ci ty Hall celebration, supported his fnmlly by working at a varl• Klczmer Plus, based In New York's Jew both jazz and Jewish music and plays with working people, and those who lay in wait throughout the United States. the City of Lowell was on Its way to becom- I ety of jobs, Including grave digging. Music ish community, sI1ans lhe generations with the New England Conservatory Klezmer to kill others with a hot lick are not re Levendes' roots are firmly anchored in ing the home of one al the largest and was set aside during the 50s. John didn't musicians from both the golden age and Band. spected. the Greek community. Band leader Danny most active Cambodian communities in even own a guitar. Then In 1960 he got an lhe current revival. founded In 1983 by Union Station is the best example of this Katsarakas states, "As youngsters we the United States. The Cambodian Tradi- I old Gibson as collateral for a loan and be Peter Sokolow and Henry Sapoznlk, the AL1soN KRAuss & UNION third generation. These three from the would join the old timers In the back of my tlonal Dance Troupe and Music Ensemble gan to play again. Just a bit In his spare group brings us some of New York's most STATION: THIRD GENERATION Midwest and one from the West Coast are grandfather's coffeehouse and listen to the is a product of Lowell's ever-growing com time. A fortuitous meeting at a gas station versatile klezmer performers. BLUEGRASS putting their brand on a fresh bluegrass. Greek folk songs and music. They didn't munity which attracts new arrivals from picking session with folklorist Chuck Per Foremost among the older generation is Last winter a bluegrass oldtimer watching They are as follows: have the amplifiers and sound systems we across the country. The dancers In this due In 1964 brought John some gigs at cof clarinetist Sid Beckerman, son of the a Union Station performance was over Jeff White is an Indiana guitarist whose use today, but the sound of the clarino group are all students in high school or feehouses and folklore societies and. klezmer clarinet great Schlolmle Becker heard wondering aloud " .... if there's a music has ranged from performing with (clarinet), sandour (hammered dulcimer), college and were featured performers at within a short time, a record on the Ar man, whose family has produced master breeding program out there somewhere." \ the great oldtlme fiddler Lotus Dickey to dumbeg (hand drum), guithara (guitar), and the 1989 Cambodian New Years celebra hoolle label called "John Jackson: Blues musicians for centuries. Beckerman has There Is. This is the third generation. The roots rock. He has won awards for his bouzouki inspired and motivated us to I tion in Lowell. Under the leadership of and Country Dance Tunes from Virginia." one of the largest repertoires of traditional music from up the Southern creeks that flatpicking for over a decade and is often start a band." Mrs. Putharavy Long, the dancers perform Si nce then, John has gained International bu/gars, zhoks, shers and other klezmer went to the northern cities has found its sought out for studio work. The advanced The orchestra's repertoire features tra the Blessing or Well Wishing Dance as well recognition as one of the foremost practi dance forms of any living musician and is way to still another generation. degree is In sociology. ditional Greek songs and dance tunes in as regional folk dances such as the Mon- tioners of the eclectic piedmont style of probably the closest link to the 19th cen The first generation consisted of factory John Pennell is an Illinois bassist who the syncopated rhythms typical of the Bal key Dance, Coconut and Handkerchief blues and country music. He has recorded tury European clarinet style. workers, farmhands, and truck drivers, learned some skills from his dad, also a kans and the Near East, such as the Dances. The Classical Music Ensemble five albums. toured throughout the U.S., Peter Sokolow, on keyboards, has been mostly from the upland South. That gen bassist. He is a gifted songwriter and a ma kalamatiano in seven-eight time, and the perform both the classical and folk reper Europe. Asia and Africa, and been awarded active in Jewish music for over thirty eration was wonderfully represented in the jor source for the group's material. John kaselamo in nine-eight time. toire and can be heard at many religious as 1 a prestigious National Heritage Fellowship years. An exceedingly versatile musician, Boston area for 18 years, from the 1950s to teaches and does studio work. The ad Peter Katsarakas plays the bouzouki well as social occasions in the Lowell area. from the National Endowment for the Arts. he has performed with many noted the 1970s, by the Lilly Brothers and Don vanced degree is in music composition. and sings while his nephew Danny handles John, a strong and gentle man who can klezmer musicians, recorded more than Stover from West Virginia. Alison Brown is a banjoist who com the lead vocals and plays dumbeg. 30 year HAROLD " CHUCK" L UCE still put in an eight hour day digging thirty albums of Jewish music, and lec- There were a few good first generation mutes to performances from San Fran veteran Roland Moore plays rhythm and WITH NICK HAWES cisco. Reared in the California bluegrass bass guitars and John Apostolides will be Harold "Chuck" Luce is a Yankee fiddler graves. spends his spare time with a metal 1 tured and written on Jewish music and northern bands, too. The most notable I detector searching for Civil War relics early jazz. one in Massachusetts - and arguably the sunshine, Alison is a Harvard graduate and on clarinet and organ and sing harmony. and dance caller who is a life long resident around his home, and knows some mean Henry Sapoznik, on tenor banjo and vo best one anywhere - was headed by the her advanced degree in finance is from Joining the band for this engagement will of Chelsea. Vermont. He began learning UCLA. ghost and big snake stories. The big rattle- I cals, has been in the vanguard of younger late mandollnist and typewriter repairman be James Golis on drums. the fiddle on his own at the age of 14. In snakes John encountered on the upper musicians and researchers who have re Joe Val, a genial artist who is invariably Alison Krauss is fiddler and lead vocal the early 1930s Mr. Luce met Ed Larkin, a ist and a rising force in country music. Blue Ridge slopes have now been joined by vived klez mer music since the mid-1970s. named when the all-time great tenor sing LOWELL CAMBODIAN well known local fiddler and dance caller She's been playing since age five and on some more esoteric reptiles. such as the The son of a prominent cantor, Sapoznik ers are discussed. D ANCE TROUPE & CLASSICAL whose style and repertoire harkened back 1 stages since age eight. She has performed giant cobra a Sri Lankan snake charmer has been steeped in the traditions of Jew Second generation bluegrass bands Music ENSEMBLE to the 19th century. He began to play regu on two of the National Council for the Tra In April, 1985 the Cambodian community larly with Mr. Larkin at local dances and turned loose just as John was innocently ish music, seeking out and learning from wore chinos rather than blue jeans or ditional Art's "Masters Of The Folk Violin" of Lowell gathered on the steps of City Hall absorbed much of his unique repertoire of passing the snake man's coin-soliciting en older musicians, and finding and reissuing matching polyester. They were young pro national tours and will be with that tour to raise their country's flag In official rec old New England dance tunes and dance terprise on an early morning stroll. many of the older classic kJezmer record fessionals influenced by the "we got to again this fall touring the West Coast. ognition of the Cambodian New Year. The figures. For the next 20 years, Mr. Luce ings. He is a founder of the well known gether on campus" folkles of the 60s, the Once a victim of early admission to univer Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association continued to play with Larkin's group at KLEZMERPLUS I klezmer band Kapelye and a featured per Beatles, and Bob Dylan. They pumped no Kfezmer, a Yiddish word meaning, literally, sity, Alison is at age 18 a dropout from worked with the Buddhist Association (re fairs and shows around Vermont. After Ed former in Peter Sokolow's Original KJezmer gas. They were professors, managers, 1 musician, is a traditional form of East Euro educational Institutionalization, and a re garded respectively as the "body" and Larkln's death in 1954, some of the dancers j Jazz Band. physicians, dentists, and artists by day. pean Jewish dance music with roots that sponsible working girl like the ones you "soul" of the community) to organize the formed the Ed Larkin Old Time Contra 1 Drummer David Licht has been playing They were the first to have gold chains 1 day's festivities which included a religious Dancers, with whom Mr. Luce has per pre-date the Middle Ages. The music was kl ezmer music since the mid-I980s, con- and digital watches. see in the old movies. She knows some brought to the United States in the late things that no one taught her, and If you blessing offered by the monks, traditional formed on-and-off (or many years as a fid certizing with a number of noted bands Third generation bluegrass draws tunes 19th century by Jewish immigrants fleeing catch her act we promise that you won't games for the chlldren, and folk and classi dler, caller, and dancer. and recording with the K1 ezmatics. Ken and skills from the first and second genera- government instituted pogroms through cal dancing. The New Year's celebration Mr. Luce has played at house parties Gross, on trumpet, has been a front line I lions, but also looks to other musics and soon forget her. out the region. Once here. kJ ezmer incor was an especially exciting and emotional and local dances all his life. He possesses player in the New York Jewish music scene I its own experience. It is irreverent In ap- porated popular American music of the THE LEVENDES O RC HESTRA event for the many people who had not the rare ability to be able to fiddle and call lor many years. In addition to heading his proach, but also very serious about qual- 1 celebrated their native culture since the off dance figures at the same time. In fact, day and enjoyed its first heyday in the own group, the Ken Gross Orchest h • The Levencles Orchestra Is a group of J"tlfJ\r, ra, e Ity. The influence of second generation early decades of the twentieth century, of- 1 1 accomplished Greek musicians from Pea- he has even Invented machines which al- 1 superpickers is felt, but this generation Is 4~ - - ______J ~~~ - ~ \ }~f - - --,,~ ------1-'!t(',(tl" from lr f/ h1 111W From riRllt 10 lefl ll'11/lt MrHt1f' 8 /f/ A'ttfy 11/wtu h1• K.. l'ln n,11,,. m ,rtrs.l' of ll'rswm Folklrfr n •nlf!r phllrr, by Nick Sp,r:e, Mac Parker C,,fr/}alt(> ,\fr//nnul1ht- 111tfft' fos/"1 p /mi,1 hy Mldtar/ I' Snuth Al!mf, G,m lmlmm photo h,,• Mff'h low him lo play J>lano or banjo with his tana Production Credit Association calen- I ally unknown outside the neighborhoods days, such co nfrontations sometimes year, but provide percussive accompani In which It occurs. lived In Dallas. moving to Austin in 1963. leet. while fiddling and calling a dance - a dar and has since been published In a I ended In violence. ment and sing. Char les Taylor, Chief of the where he sUll llves today. true one man band. number of local, regional and national peri The origins of the Indians are somewhat Each year a tribe makes new costumes, While Cloud Hunters. Rudy Bougere. Chief Once In Austin, Neely became a regular Harold Luce plays fiddle In the old Yan odicals. obscure. Tradition within the community or "suits" according to a set color scheme, o l the Ninth Ward Hunters. Lionel Oubi at Kenny Threadgill's, a seminal gathering kee style learned lrom Ed Larkin. ls an Wally's reputation as a cowboy poet holds that In the late 1800s the Indian II I which is kept secret as long as possible. chon, Wild Man for the White Eagles. and and as an outspoken advocate o f agricul tr ibes were made up of a mixtur e of full place In the creation of the Austin "Out archaic style with short bow strokes. very The suits are worn on Mardi Gras day and Johnny Stevenson, a flag Boy for the While \ 1 law" music that was to burst into commer little slurring and no !ell hand ornamenta ture Is now natio nwide. He Is also famous blooded Indians from Louisiana and Black , St. Joseph's day and then dismantled. In Magnolias will be suited up for the festival. cial popular ity in the 1970s. Bill had more tion. In his state lor his unrelenting resistance Creoles ( a mixture of French, Spanish, In- recent years, some Indians have also kept j Harold Parker, Fellon Brown, and Darrell influence on it than it had on him. He con Nick Hawes will be accompanying Mr. to coal mining Interests that would turn all dlan, and Black lrom New Orleans homoge their suits to appear at other events, such 1 Johnson will Join Chief Jake in the second tinued to appear at clubs around town, Luce on piano. Nick has played in numer of Montana's beautilul ranching country neous stock). Contemporary accounts as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fes- line. penning new songs and resurrecting old ous New England dance bands over the into a deep pit coal mine. His first collec noted that during the 18th and 19th centu lival. Only the elaborate beadwork pic Now comes an invitation. The second ones. In 1975 he recorded an album for past decade. He has also done consider tion of poetry, "It's Just Grass and Water " ries, Blacks congregated in Congo sq uare tures, or "patches" are left intact t o be in line Is a part of all New Orleans parade tra Arhoolle entitled "Blackland Farm Boy." able research and fieldwo rk on traditional ( 1979). contained not only "Reincarna (now Beauregard Square) according to 1 cluded in a future costume. Crowns and ditions and means that the community He has appeared at several major festivals. music In the Northeast lor the National tion," now a classic in the oral tradition of / their original African tribal membership on I suits are designed and made by the men joins In the festivities, strutting along the and is currently working on a book about Council for the Traditional Arts and oth cowboy recitations, but also social com Sunday alternoons to play traditional Afri who wear them and ar e decorated with street, playing, dancing and singing. You his life and songs with folkJorist Nicholas ers. It was Nick who brought Mr. Luce to mentary in poems such as "The Lease can music and dance. The music was I beaded p ictures of Indian heroes, wild are invited and ur ged to become part of Spitzer. our attention. Hound," "Crisis," and "The Mines, From played on a variety of percussive instru birds, flowers, and geometrical designs. the second line! When asked what kJnd of music he the Strip Mines." ments and songs were in the traditional Glass beads are used, as well as sequins, plays, Bill's usual reply is ..c ountry blues. R W ALLY M CRAE A second McRae book is entitled. "Up call and response p attern. Everyone par velvet, rhinesto nes, marabou, lace and rib B ILL NEELY This tag will do as well as any . but doesn't A third generation rancher from Rosebud North is Down the Crick." His third and ticipated in some way, either by clapping, bon . The crowns are elaborately deco- Texas songster Bill Neely's experiences are do justice to Bill's music, which ..ca ptures Creek, in eastern Montana, Wallace McRae most recent collection Is called "Things of singing responses, or playing rhythm. I rated and topped w ith ostrich plumes the stull of which legends are made. Born the whole era of Texas stumbling into writes about ranching, cows and his life as Intrinsic Worth." This could easily pass as a description of I costing $100. per pound. A linished suit and raised on a tenant farm in northeast- modem times, still caught between the a cowman from daily experience. His p more famous musical famllles. In addition contemporary musicians, epitomized by stepdancers Nicole Bombardier and Cara nnd be.Ing a lend carpenter on a constnic• Doc's ba11d has made rccord ln~s at Preser Canzune are usually sung by men, but to performing with their uncles and father the members of L'Ensemble Quebecois, Is Blaise, grand-daughters of the noted fid- tlon crew, Mac decided to pursue writing vation Mall and ts one of the most re there are other genres- ballads, ritual and ht the well known ensemble Masnlaki, they eloquent testimony t o the strength and seriously, and he began to comI>lle the col SJ>e<::tcd traditional Ja1.1. bands In New Or dler Louis Beaudoin. Nicky and Cara, age religious songs as well as certain work have recorded with famed polka musician vigor of French Canadian music and cul• 16 and 15, were raised in the tradition, lection of stories and poems which was leans. This wlll be their third appearance songs- w hich are primarily the province of Eddie Blazonczyk. The brothers play both eventually recorded on his cassette "The at !he National Folk Festival and their sec ture in North America. Though all of the learning at a very young age from their women. Lucy Battiato Ballarln and Nora I violin and bassy and sing harmony. Given War." Mac has become a favorite at ond time at Lowell. members of the group have played ter aunt, Lisa Beaudoin Darby, one of New Migliaccio, both of w hom migrated to West Wlodzlmlerz Bachleda Zarski was born in events ranging from folk festivals to Ver gether before, they do not ordinarily per England's finest stepdancers. For the past ern New York from Sicily, will be Illustrating mont polltlcal gatherings to church su1> POJ.ISH H IGHLANDERS Zakopane to a native Gorale family. He be- I form together as a band. several years, they have performed with these genres. I gan playing bassy at age 6 and learned har pers. His work has been featured In news The Polish Highlanders are musicians and Fiddler Jean-Marie Verret was born and the Julie Beaudoin Family, which includes The singers will be accompanied by mony singing from his mother. In 1970 he 1 paper articles and on radio and television dancers from Chicago's large Podhale raised in Lac Saint-Charles, Quebec. The three generations of Beaudoins, continuing I three musicians, playing Instruments com- and Mac Is coming to be known as "The community. The Gornie people of the began to play fiddle and became one of the Verret family have been notable musicians the family tradition. monly used in Sicilian folk music. Sam Voice of Vermont." His writing and deliv Podhale region of south central Poland, premier violinists in the style, touring for several generations and are noted for Giangreco, who was raised In the tradition. ery are down-to-earth , and genuine, char where the Taira Mountains rise 8,000 feet widely and playing constantly. Andrew their vast and unusual r epertoire, which S ICILIA ANTICA will play guitar, while Camillo Maccaluso acterized by a striking sense or humor, above sea level. have over the centuries Tokarz was born and raised In Chicago. Jean-Marie and his brother are carrying Sicilia Antica is a group of Sicilian-Ameri will play the fisarmonica (piano accordion). vivid descriptions, and a keen understand developed their own distinctive language, His musical training began with the piano forward with great virtuosity. I can singers and musicians from the Niag Gioaccino Picone will be playing the mar• Ing of his native state and the people who music, song, dance, art and architecture. at age 10. In 1977 he went to Poland and Gabriel Labbe, born in Rimouski in 1938, ara Frontier region of New York State, ranzano, or jaw harp, a lyre-shaped p iece of live there. In Chicago this unique culture Is centered met Wlodzimierz w ho became his fiddle is one of Quebec's outstanding harmonica which encompasses Butralo, Lewiston and metal with a central tongue that is held be around Highlander Hall, or Dom Podhalan, teacher. He has made several subsequent players, noted for h is lively, elegantly orna- 1 Niagara Falls. The steel mills and related tween the teeth. The tongue Is rhythmi D oc p AUUN 's D1x11::L.AND the national headquarters of the Polish trips to perfect his playing of the sekund mented playing and choice of tunes. A life industries in this heavily industrialized cally struck as the mouth cavity Is moved J AZZ BAND Highlanders of North America. The Hall, a and bassy, and learn the Goralskipiszalki long collector of rare 78 rpm recordings of area have brought waves of Italian immi to produce tones. The marranzano is often The Doc Paulin Band has been active in lovingly faithful recreation of a Podhale (flute) and koza (bagpipe) . Maria Quebecois m usicians, he has collaborated grants to this region, where they have used to accompany canzune. the New Orleans music scene for over fifty lodge. is where the Gorale meet to social Knapczyk and Stanislaw Krupa will be with Folkways Records to reissue vintage formed a large and close-knit community. Phillip Riggio, who organized this group, years. perfonnlng at the Storyville Night ize, eat and dance, and to listen to the demonstrating Gor ale dances as part of French-Canadian dance music. As with other European countries, Italy has been active in Italian-American music Club, carnival balls. parades and jazz fu songs and music of the homeland. the presentation. Raynald Ouellet, born in 1956 in Mont has several distinct regional musics. Sic- for many years and was an organizer of the nerals. Ernest "Doc" Paulin leads the band The Polish Highlanders are a kapela, or magny, began playing the accordion at the ily, an island which is located off the boot Scampagnata Folkloristica ltaliana Festival on trumpet, and of the other eight players group consisting of a prym or first violin, L ' ENSEMBLE O UEBECOIS age of two-and-a-half. He comes from a tip of Italy, has ancient and well defined of western New York from 1979--84. Mr. Rig six ar e his sons: Phillip on trumpet, Scott two sekunds or rhythm violins, and the WITH N ICOLE B OMBARDIER & musical family and grew up surrounded by music forms. Most notable is the canzuna, gio will be on hand to present Sicilia Antica. on trombone, Aaron and Ricley on drums, distinctive bassy, a bass cello shaped like C ARA 8 L.AJSE some of the r egion's finest traditional mu a poetic song in alternate rhythmic fonn Wayne on bass tuba and Roderick on the the figure eight. Tradltlonally the prymista, When Wolfe defeated Montcalme on the sicians. A gifted composer, Raynald has with several variants- the stomello, octava, ANA V INAGRE, MANUEL L EITE & aJto saxophone. AJso in the band are Ju or first violinist, learns the basic reper Plains of Abraham below Quebec in 1759, been a leading figure in the development of I strambotto, a/la camagnola, for example - ALVARO MEDEIROS lius Louis on alto saxophone and Gregory toire, and then decorates the melody In his the French had been In Canada for nearly the dazzling, driving style of contemporary depending on metrical structure and sub Ana Vinagre, Manuel Leite and Alvaro Davison on tenor saxophone. own distinctive way. The titles of tunes two centuries. During this time French cul Quebecois accordion. ject matter. Canzunas may be occupa Medeiros are active musicians in the New Like many other traditional jazzmen of are derived from dance figures such as the ture had become firmly planted in the New Marcel Messervier, Jr. also comes from tional songs, ballads about local heros, or Bedford and Fall River area of Massachu his generation, Doc Paulin is of Creole an ozwodne, krzesane, marsz, and zbojnicki. World, not the least of which was the tradi Montmagny and is the son of the master dominantly, Jove songs, often performed in setts, one of the largest Portuguese settle cestry and from a family of musicians. His Male dancers may request a particular tional music and dance of the motherland. musician accordion player and maker, the context of serenading. Singers will ments in the United States. Ana Vinagre grandfather played the diatonic French ac tune to show off their skills as they court With English conquest came immigration Marcel, Sr., one of Raynald's chief mentors. sometimes improvise their texts to suit the I grew up In the village of Buarcou, near the cordion and he Is a nephew of the 1920s their partners. The men's singing style of and profound musical influences on A talented and seasoned musician, Marcel occasion and subject matter, flinging larger city of Figuera da Foz in Portugal. brass band leader. Edgar "Kid Peter.. Peter. this region is distinguished by a high vocal French-speaJdng Quebec, particularly from plays the complex, driving piano accompa verses back and forth in ritualized compe She was introduced to fado music as a His career began on the streets as a teen register and great tension of the voice. the Scots and Scotch-frish. In more recent niment style u nique to contemporary tition. Like much of the Southern Italian young girl when she joined her village ager during the 1920s and continued in Songs may be about love, life's hardships times, the massive circulation of commer Quebecois music. vocal tradition. the canzuna is a solo genre dance group. Her grandmother, mother clubs during the 30s. During World War JI and joys, or the exploits of Janosik, the Pol cial recordings has made Its effect felt. Marc Benoit, who lives in Montreal, which demands virtuosity on the part of and one sister had all been In this group, he entertained troops as a Special Services ish Robin Hood, or Sabala, a Goral bard. Notwithstanding outside Influences, plays bass for for the group, and does in the singer and lends itself to subtle Im which performed the folk dances of Portu artist. Since then he has been an inde Sometimes new words are adapted to tra Quebec's traditional musicians have devel troductions In his Inimitable witty way. A provisation. gal's various provinces, often r epresenting pendent fixture of New Orleans traditional ditional melodies. oped their own distinctive sound and rep- mainstay o( traditional French Canadian Angelo Fiorello, a master of the canzuna Portugal at festivals and competitions jazz, working the balls, parades, jazz funer Members of the Polish Highlanders ertory. Quebecpls dance music is distin music for many years, he was a founder o f style, was born in Campobello di Licata throughout Europe. The fado has been Por als and drinking and dancing spots. group at the festival have deep roots in guished by Its driving, precise and percus the notable band Erltage, in which Raynald and spent his childhood with rural farm tugal's best known song form for the past Paulin's repertoire includes traditional Podhale culture and years o f experience sive rhythm and clear, rippling melodies. also played. When he Is not playing music, folk who taught him the style. In 1955, he century or so, thought to have gotten Its march tunes, spirituals and old pop stan- with the music and dance. Wladyslaw I The repertoire Includes r eels, gigues, six· Mar c works for Montreal's oldest stringed emigrated to Buffalo and opened a barber name from the word for .. fate... The emo dards, with a strong boogie-woogie blues Styrczula Masnlak and his brother Z0islaw huits, galopes, parties de quadrilles, instrument making firm, appr enticing to shop on the Italian West Side which be tional core of the fad o Is saudade, an unde 1 feeling. He has recorded for Folkways and come from one of the Podhale region's marches and valses. learn the trad e. came the center for informal music-mak- Unable yearning or nostalgia for a love, I performed for a presidential Inauguration. The vir tuosity and sophistication or Joining L'Ensemble Quebecois will be times past, or a lost home. The singing ap-- ! [ _ __ ------I ,._ f,Om Ith ro ngh1 51ST N tm ONAL FOLK Mirhattl and William Cahill pholO t,y Bob Crosby. coortriy of Lynn Item FESTIVAL - CRAFTS ./uf1Coop,tr 1/ pholo by Douid Broumtlf DEMO NSTRATORS AmahJ()'r pholO by Slt llfl Mattholt f•)um ll'ft tu ,W,1 I f"'r/t,ftllf' Artd.•nmn, phOM It}· II' /.nr,1hrwh1 0,1d1 l.>N'<1,1•mffffl' lwllobll,,,,,.,,,,., p/lM) hy,,:.,.,,'f' Mrir,:holt L ANTHONY WILLIAM, M ICHAE & JON COOPER all the requisite skills including beating proach to lndo Is one of barely repressed CEI E~TINE ANI lERS( )N lamlly hun\ecl for fowl and game, espe CAHILL Jon Cooper of Portland, Maine. Is a highly r Into shapes. using and making raw emotion. l3askctmakcr Celestine Anderson was born cially deer In the Ha\amonk Swamp. Hunt coppe The Cah\11 brothers, seventh generation skilled maker of violins, violas, and cellos. soldering, and gold leafing. He Like many fado singers, Ana \eamed by In Manchester (Middlesex), Jamaica, nncl Ing was a necessary part of the calendar molds. roof thatchers from Salthill, County Gal Also a veteran fiddler, he began repairing left the company because he llslenlng lo records and making trips 10 Lis moved to the United States with her hus year and provided a vital food resource eventually way. Ireland, have been pursuing their his own instruments in the 1970s because by the factory environment. bon where many of the most well renowned band and children 19 years ago, when she during lhe winter months. Brophy learned felt trapped trade in the United Stales since 1986. They he had a difficult time finding a competent fado singers performed. When she came to was 37. She Is now a resident of Lawrence, to hunt and carve decoys from family Arnold prererred to create individual came to this country to thatch a roof on a repairman to fix them. With ten years of and work for customers. Today he New Bedford. Massachusells In 1972. Ana Massachusetts. members. By age fourteen, he carved de pieces new post and beam barn in Yarmouthport repair experience under his belt. he went coppersmith. sl opped singing and dancing. Then In 1977 Celestine's parents and grandparents coys and whittled spiral nails, chains, ani works both as a fireman and on Cape Cod, and have kepi busy doing to Cremona, Italy, in the early 1980s lo ap His smithing includes restoration and crea her group from Buarcou was Invited 10 per were farmers; her maternal grandfather mal figures, as well as other d ecorative ob jobs on the East Coast ever since, working prentice for two years with a master violin of new pieces. form In the U.S. and she was asked lo join was also a carpenter and a constable. Like jects. Aller high school, Brophy attended tion for individuals who want and can afford a maker. Cremona has been famous for this them. Since then she has been perfom1ing most Jamaican women raised in a tradi Wentworth Institute, served in the Army, There are two basic methods of crafting truly unique roof. exacting craft for centuries, producing a de more regularly. Her friend Joao Texeira de tional environment, Celestine learned to and worked for United Shoe Machinery. a weather vane. One Is to hammer Thatching is an ancient craft still prac such giants as Stradivari and Guarani In mith uses a Medeiros. a poel living In Fall River. Massa sew and embroider from her mother and During these years, he continued to hunt sign Into a copper sheet. The s I ticed in the British Isles and parts of Eu the 17th and 18th centuries. Jon returned chusetts, writes lyrics that are es1>eclally grandmother. Her grandmother and and carve decoys. Now retired, Brophy block of wood as an anvil and shapes the rope, but virtually extinct in America. Ob to Portland and set up his own shop where by eye. The second method Involves moving for her. By collaborating "ith him. grandfather also laughl her lo make bas carves decoys, hunts. and maintains an ac piece taining materials in this country has there has been producing instruments for the Ana continues to develop her own reper kets when she was very young. Tradition tive interest in environmental matters. he creating a mold and pounding the copper fore called for ingenuity. Roofs are past seven years. His instruments are it. Many of the commercial firms toire and style of singing lado. ally, baskets were made from palm leaves, Brophy has a wide repertory of decoys. against thatched with water reeds obtained from used by performers in symphonies, string which Manuel Leite and Alvaro Medeiros are the stems being used as ribbing; grass and He makes solid, hollow, shadow, silhou I ordered cast iron molds, some of Manitoba, Canada. The straw for the roof quartets and string bands (Michael Doucet in use. Arnold has made several from lhe Island of SI. Michaels in lhe old rags wrapped around twigs would also ette, and decorative decoys. In number are still caps originally had to be imported from of Beausoleil plays a Cooper violin) and wax fig Azores. although they did not meet until be used. These baskets could be deco and species, these correspond to wildfowl complicated molds by sculpting Ireland. The Cahills' search for a closer have been featured at an exhibit at the are cast into they both moved lo the U.S. Manuel began rated with flowers and ribbons and some ! habits, hunting method, and customer I ures (a positive image) which source brought them l o lhe Amish country Portland Museum of Art. or plaster (a negative Image) before playing the Portuguese guitarm. a long times were painted. Baskets were used demand. Most of the regional decoys have plastic of Pennsylvania where they found both Tradition lies in the heart of violin mak transferred into wet sand (a positive necked, ten-stringed lute, when he was daily in all Jamaican households for stor I hollow bodies. To make them, Brophy being straw and a people with whom they had ing. Jon says, ..From the 16th century to and finally concrete ( a negative seven years old. A neighbor lent him a gui ing lhe family's belongings and food, haul first selects a block of pine or cedar, traces image) much in common. Now every year they the present the basic tools, materials, and The concrete form is strong taTTtl and showed him the basics. The gui· ing laundry, marketing, and bringing crops I a pattern on it, roughs out the shape with image). several weeks with the Amish for making fine violins have be hammered Into for designing tarm typically plays improvised passages back from the fields. These baskets gener a band saw, splits the back, gouges ii hol- spend techniques enough lo threshing the straw by hand, which im ained remarkably unchanged. There pper image. When the sections of against the singer's line. Manuel was soon ally would last two or three years. low, joins the halves, and finishes the bird. rem the co presses their hosts who now use ma secret var they are learning on his own by practicing and lis When Celestine first moved to Massa Some other pieces are solid. Finished \\ith I are a great many stories about the weather vane are completed. are fastened and the where art In itself. tening to records. When he was eighteen chusetts she worked in a mill, operating a flat paints to resemble the unintended chines. The thatch bundles nishes, special treatments, soldered together. which Is an , which they on a an uncle living in Taunton, Massachusetts knitting machine; her skills as a weaver in prey, working decoys have minimal detail. to the roof with steel naifs abouts of forests that have been lost, mak The decorative vanes are mounted Hazelwood great violins spindle before installation. Ar sent him some money and he was able to Jamaica helped her in that job. Later, Silhouettes, on lhe other hand, are flat, 1 hand forge for that purpose. ing it Impossible to ever make weighted natural con buy his own guitar. He joined his uncle in Celestine started working for a computer usually sawn from a single sheet of ply scorbs, once used for the entire roof, are again. These tales detract from what is a nold can leave the piece in Its , antique ii. or gold leaf ii. Taunton in 1958. and continued to play manufacturing company and has been wood and are painted to resemble geese still used to fasten down the straw roof far more interesting and complex legacy. dition has also whenever there was time between work there for fourteen years, designing and as and are set in com fields. Shadow decoys I cap. The finished roof varies in thickness Using simple hand tools, violin makers In the last few years. Arnold pieces of stained glass to some of and his gardening. learning all his new sembling computer hardware. are pairs of sl\houettes in nested sets for from 12 inches al the bottom to 20 inches from Stradivari to the unknown maker in added 1 eather vanes. It seems that some of songs by ear. Celestine and her husband often remi ocean hunting. Each silhouette Is joined al the ridge, with the valley h aving a depth Maine have been producing Instruments his w stained glass At age 13 Alvero Medeiros started play nisce about Jamaican traditional cooking by a cross-piece on the bottom to separate of over two feet. A large roof may use for four centuries. Every person who picks his customers wanted their objects repaired by Arnold because he ing the viola, a four or five-stringed guitar and social life, particularly the Sunday fam the decoys at a fixed distance giving the I 8,000 bundles of reed, one-and-a-half tons up the tools faces the same question. How knew how to solder. Slowly it occurred to which provides harmony and bass lines for ily gatherings which they miss. Celestine impression of swimming birds and to facili of straw and 9,000 nalls and scorbs. to fashion maple and spruce into an instru ble of rlvallng lhe him that adding bits of glass 10 the the vocals. Several of his uncles, as well as hopes to return to Jamaica when she re tate nesting lhe decoys In a stack. A set of Like generations of Cahll\s before them, ment that will be capa human voice? Answering this question Is a weather vanes would be a unique touch his father played fado. and he and his older tires. shadow decoys In the water resemble a W\11\am, Michael, and Anthony are con and personal statement. The community brother playing along \\ilh their father's vi long string of birds swimming Into the cur stantly on the move, since thatching Is a l\lelong pursuit." demonstrated their approval by purchas ola. He took a serious interest in playing, Boa BROPHY rent. migratory occupation. The Cahllls plan to ing them. and soon apprenticed himseU to a re Bob Brophy is a superb wildfowl decoy The llnal type of decoy Brophy carves Is keep on thatching for the rest of their ARNOLD CYR Arnold Cyr Is an outstanding coppersmith spected player. Joe Coreia When Alvero carver and taxidermist who grew up on a I decorative. Starting In the mid 1960s, he lives. Their hero Is the "The Piper RIiey," who creates weather vanes as well as H ENRY D ELEON moved to New Bedford in 1969. he contin small farm In Easton, Massachusetts. Uke carved decorative pieces and gave them King of the Irish threshers. "The Piper," d more utilitarian rain gutters and downs I Instrument maker Henry Del.eon was born ued to play whenever he could, and now all farm boys, he had a multitude of experi away as presents. Ten years later, he en WIiiiam says, "Is 86 now and never marrie I pouts. He apprenllced al a local weather in the mountain village of Santurce In Joins other musicians, including Ana Vin ences associated with agriculture and tered decoy shows and competitions and once. He'll st\11 show up for a job If the vane factory In 1960 and worked there for Puerto Rico, but moved to Harlem, New agre and Manuel Leite, performing in Portu hunting. His decoy carving and hunting thought himself a professional carver. He woman In the house bakes him a fresh ion. ." ten years. During that time he absorbed York with his famlly when he was three. guese clubs and restaurants in the reg both began In his early teens when the r scone has won several awards but no longe 1 After living In New York for 33 years, he re- competes. &llft"(\. .8~ I ~ 2\ i;f f,-.1 207 \ (\'_@\~:· '·iv,:J;i,f / From /eh 10 nghl. ~ U)u:efl TeJ/:ltfe f,f,// \'whmuw 111 l•mu,m /)n11rr /r d Ill' 11/f'f' fo m 1.. Worlrer, 11/11111 , by Sum SI,~•.,,.,, &rboro Merry p&.ln by~~ Va1q11ez f "'ttll '1. 111/ II 4 Mid 19th Century Prony 1H,u/f1hy Jr• ~to l 'li)·nr Quilt I pholo by Edu.vmJ I Cunmn,llum. ruurtesyof New England Quilt M11~um I Otfond Stlt,y Oian11n,11ey photo by Gtorge Vasqwz f)hOIO hy.hult1 f'uyrnr Sltllf!S~rry !'tum /Jin 8 Moul! l'flnn photo by Kalt Uoo.>t/1, Smithsonian /ru/ttutian pholO by Jrulr l'UJ'llfl I A/1/ona Sa/ml11 inlla1 phOll.1 hy Georll(' \'11Jq11r: 1 ments as well as playing. Mc can co nstruct elaborate straw ornaments were strung weather was good they harvested, and on nailed lnlo place. Aller planking, !he Each papercul Is dlflerenl, employing a C LELAND SELBY a tahke In 3-4 days, carving lhc body from together and presented as gifts for good rainy days they made potato and blue builder adds gunwales, seals and a keel, varied reperlolre of traditional Jewish sym Rughooker Cleland Selby grew up in the a solid block of dry, soft wood. He has luck. Later, smaller versions were made as berry baskets, used to carry the harvest. and seals all the joints by wedging In col bols, mollfs and Hebrew lclterlng, as well northern Vermont town of Derbyline, also bull! lhe rare and complex 21-plece decorations, and pieces of straw were ton caulking. An Important recent reUne as her own personal Illustrations . Diane Don and Mary often traveled with their I which lies on the border with Canada. roneat ek, whi ch needs special rosewood. glued together or placed on paper, all us parents during these periods, which pro ment Is the use of epoxy finishes below !he makes her 1>apcrcuts as gifts for friends I Both his grandmother and his mother Phan has 1>alnstaklngly preserved not only Ing traditional geometric patterns. water lin e to reduce leaking and mainte and family, selling them and teaching oth vided their families with an invaluable and , hooked rugs and as a young boy he recalls the Instruments but the traditional music In 1944, when Aldana was eleven years nance. ers about their origins. reliable source of Income. Once they were I sneaking Into his mother's work place to of Cambodia as well. old, she and her family left Lithuania, married, Don and Mary moved down to In addlllon lo classic dories, !he Lowell add a few stitches In her rugs, which she Mouk Phon was born in a small village moved to Germany, and in 1950 to Hart Boatyard also builds skills, l enders and P HAN B IN AND MOllK PHON I Malne permanently and began raising a would then take out and replace. Once he In Cambodia In 1940. He was a monk for ford, Connecticut. In Hartford she met a dinghies In various sizes and designs. Phan Bin and Mouk Phon construct and family. In need of additional Income, they got older he was allowed to fill In the back play traditional Inst rument s from thei r na three years before becoming a soldier in Lithuanian woman who taught her the ba started making baskets to sell. By then grounds of her rugs. D IANE PALLEY tive Cambodia. They both reached the 1963. He came to Houston, Texas in 1981 sics of stringing straw which Inspired her new technology had made the use of har I Later he worked for an auctioneer, and Papercutter Diane Palley was raised in At Uniled States through refugee camps In from a refugee camp in Thailand and has to work on her own. vest baskets obsolete so they sold their started collecting hooked rugs. Many of lantic City, New Jersey and grew up among Thailand and have since built by memory lived in Lowell since 1987. Mouk loves to At first she made geometric ornaments baskets to tourists and to others who used them needed repalrs, which he began to a large, e.,1ended Jewish family, spending a and without specifications instruments work with wood and certainly has a talent for her Christmas tree. Later she began the baskets as containers. do himself, until he decided to try one of good deal of time al !he synagogue. and such as the ho (fiddle), samphor(drums), for it. He only learned to play the instru- using various shades of flattened straw to The first step in making baskets is se his own. He soon found he could sell his I each Friday night dinner at the home of ,oneat (xylophone), tahke (zither), and ments alter he had perfected their con make two-dimensional Images based on lecting the wood. It can take one or two work, and has devoted himself to making I one of her two sets of grandparents. Her khim (hammer dulcimer). Special materi 1 struction. Remarkably he builds and plays her interpretations of Lithuanian folktales. days to travel to the woods, select a tree I wool rugs ever since. mother's father had been a tinsmith in als such as coconut shells, snakeskin, rose from memory, sometimes even using his Although she buys some of her rye straw and haul it to a desired spot. The Sani Unlike his mother, whose rugs were pat- Russia and taught her how to work with wood and bamboo are needed to build hands and arms as measuring sticks for from Germany, most of it is given to her by pass' primarily use brown ash, but they terned, Cleland's rugs portray his vision of and cut metal. Diane's parents encour these complex instruments. These men I the exact lengths needed for the khim and local farmers. Each spring, summer and also use white ash, cedar and maple. After I Vermont farming life, as well as images aged her artistic talents, and she ex-peri have certainly laced a formidable chal I the tro. Over the years he has acquired fall she makes several trips to each farm, cutting the log, they plank It, cutting it into from his own memory and imagination. mented with a variety of art forms on her lenge, being displaced from not only their the much needed tools and materials to picking the straw at different stages of strips one inch thick and two inches wide Many of his rugs are humorous. In a cur- own , such as silk screening. block printing, culture but also from materials, tools, and craft the instruments. He has a special growth to get varied tones, from green to after which each piece is shaved into rent rug which depicts his memory of drawing, painting. as well as papercutting. specifications needed to build traditional curved knife to hollow out coconut shells, gold to brown. strips which are pounded until they are l working as an auctioneer, he shows a Several years ago she decided to make her Cambodian instruments. Yet they have and has found the proper wood and snake Although she has been displaced from almost paper thin. From there the strips couple where the man is delighted to have grandmother a papercut of a menorah succeeded through a mix of resourceful skin to build the tro. But he has also her home and the many relatives who re are woven into a basket of the desired size made a purchase, while the wife looks on (candlelabra) as a gift. This set off re adaptation and clear memory, thus pro adapted their construction, using super mained there, Afdona's "heart Is still be and shape. in dismay at the high price he has paid. quests from her mother and other family viding an essential element for the preser glue to re-seal the coconut shells, plastic hind" in Lithuania. Through her own work Don also learned to make all the knives I The process of creating the rugs, "paint members for more papercuts. Being vation of their culture in America. With I as well as snakeskin, and American hard- and teaching others how to work with needed to make baskets, including ing" them as he goes along, is what is most skilled with a knife and as an illustrator, these instruments they have been able to wood when he can't get the correct wood straw, she gives expression to the contin crooked knives (axes used to whittle the interesting for him. Once he finishes a rug, the work of carving designs on paper came play Cambodian classical pin peat music from Cambodia or Thailand. Thus with ued existence and vitality of the art forms wood), and draw shave knives ( two he is eager to be rid of it, giving it to family naturally to her. as well as village folk music traditions or great resourcefulness he aJways creates and culture which have been discouraged I handled knives which are used to shave member or, more often, selling it to a Traditionally during young Jewish mohori. The pin peat tradition is a slower, the proper-sounding traditional Cambo- In present day Lithuania. the planks). Unlike his parents and grand dealer. Working as a principal in an ele men's scholarly training, papercutting was formal court music characterized by an dian instruments. Playing by ear, he Isac- parents, Don uses a chainsaw to cut down mentary school, he finds hooking rugs the introduced. Papercuts with specific motifs archalc tro and skor (wedding drum). The compllshed at the tro, khim, tahke, roneat, DON, MARY & DAVID SANJPASS the trees for his baskets. Otherwise he most relaxing part of his day. were made for each religious holiday, mohori tradition is lively, with faster tern- and skor. He especially loves theAyay tra- Don and Mary Sanipass are Micmac Indi I and Mary make baskets much like the ones verses were cut. and amulets were made pos, tw~tringed tros and the rich sounds I dition, a spontaneous interaction of satiri ans living in West Chapman, Aroostook they watched being made when they were STEVE SPERRY and placed in the home and the syna of the zither, xylophone and hammer dulci- cal singing between women and men. County, Maine. Both were born In Canada, young. A sail maker by trade, Steve Sperry grew gogue. Papercuts were also made to com mer. Mouk often plays in an orchestra with Don in Shedlac, New Brunswick and Mary I Don and Mary have taught their three up in Petersham, Massachusetts, spending memorate community events, such as Phan Bin was born in Phnom Pen, and Phan Bin and several other musicians and in Nova Scotia. They learned to make bas daughters and one son all the skills In- his summers on Cape Cod and the South weddings, births, and to honor respected studied classicaJ Cambodian music for flf- vocalists. kets by watching their grandparents and volved in making baskets, from selecting Shore. In 1963 he joined the Coast Guard community members. AJthough young teen years. After !feeing Cambodia in the parents. For centuries the Mlcmacs made wood and making tools to weaving the bas and salled on their square rigger, The women did not have the same scholarly early 70s, he played with a group of musi AlDONA SAIMININKA5 baskets out of various types of wood, us kets themselves. Their son David now Eagle, for three summers, becoming famil training as the men, Diane was exposed to cians and dancers in a refugee camp in For Aldana Salmlnlnkas, working with Ing them for storage and to carry food and makes all the tools that his parents use, iar with sails and rigging. Winters were the traditional papercuts. Thailand. This group, the widely ac straw is a way of maintaining a link with other Items. During the 19th century most along with his own baskets. In addition to spent in a sail loft where Steve was intro Diane's papercuts are her illustrations I claimed Khmer Traditional Arts Ensemble, her lost home In Lithuania. As a young Micmac Indians made trips from Canada to working as a carpenter, he Is active in the duced to the crafts of sail making and rig of her memories or songs , family celebra arrived in America through a resettlement girl, growing up In the small city of Kybar Maine to work as seasonal laborers. They Micmac community, working as a coordi ging. After leaving the Coast Guard, Sperry I tions and holidays. She also makes program and soon began touring widely, tai, she was taught by the nuns In her went to Aroostook County to work In the nator for the Aroostook Micmac Council. worked for a couple of years moving boats 1 mezrach (east waJI markers). mezuzas Now Phan Lives in Lowell, building instru- school to cut straw to make ornaments for thriving potato Industry, and to Washing up and down the East Coast. There fol (amulets), and commemorative papercuts. I lowed a brief stint at the notable Hood Sall- / ~ the family Christmas tree. Traditionally, ton County to pick blueberries. When the 4~ ~-~1 H. Salrlf! Tcs/m!f' nlfl 51ST NATIONAL FOLK SUPPORT F ESTIVA L FOODWAYS makers In Marblehead, Massachusetts, Industry. Salve knows about working long Cooking Is oflen the last famlly tradition The National Folk Festival is organized by where Steve learned to make s1>innaker I lines from dories as well as trawling with to be lost after Immigration modifies and the National Council for the Traditional sails. He then moved to Marlon on the nets . The slower winter months are a transforms the llves of new Americans. Arts, Lowell National Historical Park, City South Shore and worked for a small sail good time to mend and make nets. Salve The diversity of ethnic food in Lowell ls of Lowell, and the Regatta Festival loft for ten years, perfecting his skllls bt> usually made 2.J cardln nets (bags) during an especially rich example of this pattern; Committee with generous support from fore establishing his own loft thirteen the winter. Each net uses about $40.00 of the Festival is happy to be able to Include the following contributors: years ago. twine and Its cost In the store Is $200.00. twenty different food booths organized Sperry's sail loft builds both traditional Salve has many stories of his experience by the members of the Regatta Festival canvas (cotton) and modern dacron or at sea, several of which appear In his book, Committee. A special addition to the Benefactors Major Spo080rs Contributing Spo080rs polymer filament sails, as well as doing sail "Memories of a Gloucester Fisherman." Festival this year Is a foodways demon ($10,000 or more) ($5,000 or more) (up to $5,000) repair and rigging. Traditional sails are stration area organized by the Interna designed with paper patterns laid over the LAsT MINUTE CHANGES tional Institute of Lowell. Lydia Mattel, Bank of New England - North New England Telephone Hydro Quebec I cloth. Pieces are cut, stitched together, Tomasz Lassock wlll appear with the Pol Executive Director of the International Lowell National Historical Park Shawmut / Arlington Trust Commonwealth Federal Savings Bank 1 and then formed Into final shape with ish Highlanders Instead of Wlodzlmlerz Institute, and Board Member Martha Stevens Foundation City of Lowell Purity Supreme, Inc. darts (tapering seams). Salls are finished Zarski. Monazynskl-Welsh have brought together Congress Group Properties- Boott Mills Lowell Historic Preservation Commision Lowell Sun/Lowell Sun Charities by taping the ends. reinforcing the cor Trombonist Paul Bernardi wlll appear with cooks from eight different cultural groups Colonial Gas Company ners, and punching In the grommets. The Klezmer Plus Instead of Ken Gross. to prepare special dishes passed down National Endowment for the Arts - Folk Lowell Hilton Hotel I Joseph R. Mullins Company- bulk of the work at Sperry's consists of through generations. The audience will Arts Program Lowell Cable Television Massachusetts Mills custom work and original equipment for get a chance to ask questions and learn Lowell Institution for Savings Wang Laboratories, Inc. American Airlines three classes of competitive boats. Seven some of the secrets of these time-tested Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank people are employed at the loft, including family recipes. Come join us and meet Regatta Festival Committee Central Savings Bank two of Steve's sons, who are learning the some of the finest cooks in Lowell. Lowell Arts Council Digital Equipment Corporation trade. Lowell Plan, Inc. Donahue & Donahue Attorneys University or Lowell Theodore Edson Parker Foundation ROSARIO SALVE TESTAVERDE Connolly Data Systems Anywhere there are fisherman, you will Northern Middlesex Chambers Boott Hydro find someone who can make and mend of Commerce Muro Pharmaceutical nets. Even today, with the webbing for Lowell Heritage State Park Washington Savings Bank Lowell Cooperative Bank nets being made by machines, the human Massachusetts Council on the Arts & hand Is needed to shape the final net. And Proprietors of Locks and Canals Humanities If the net Is damaged, all mending has to Quebec Government Office be done by hand. Yet netmaking is just in New England one of the many skills that a fisherman or Canadian Consulate General in Boston fish captain needs in order to survive. It Mlnlstere des Affaires Culturelles, Quebec helps to also be a navigator, carpenter, WLLH-Radio, Lowell electrician, and plumber. Skills such as WCAP-Radio, Lowell these are also passed down person to per WGBH-FM. Boston son. I WJUL, University of Lowell Salve Testaverde exemplifies the tradi tion of just such a versatile fishermen, coming from a long line of men who made a living from the sea. His great grandfa ther, grandfather, and father were all fish ermen. His father took him to sea at age I five and by age fourteen he fished full timl , becoming a captain at seventeen. He now has three sons who are fishing captains ) and a son who is a marine biologist. For over fifty years, he fished off the banks as well as close to shore for all types of fish, and has seen a lot of changes in the fishing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 13ecky Warren Michelle Ferron Cambodian Mutual Assistance Mary Brzozowska The Board of Directors and Pam Swing Lynn Pettitt I Elizabeth Beland Kathi Flynn Phyllis Brzozowska the staff of the NCTA would Art White Association Jackie Pfeffer Sue Bennett Beth Fraser like to es pecially thank the National Council for the Mike Wurm Sambeth Fennell Martha Brzozowski Jeff Place Ed Berry Dick Gauthier following persons and groups Tradltlonal Art• Visitor Services Division Cercle Ste. Marie Dillon Bustin Clara Porter Dianne Blttokolelt Professional Support Division Jay Gauthier for their support: Joe WIison Missionary Work Charles Camp Frank Proschan Kay Bradley Lyn Gauthier Chrysandra L. Walt er. Executive Director Visitor Protection Division Sr. Antonia Ally Mary Cliff Don Rouse Serge Cabana Superintendent of Lowell Meg Glaser Administration Division Bill Gillard German Cultural Club Dianne Couves Hannah Sacks Pat Connolly 1 National Historical Park and Program Director Maintenance Division Lee Gltchler Inge Jamieson Bill Covington Howard Sacks Kevin Coughlin her entire staff, all of whom Pete Reiniger Thomas Golden, Jr. Greater Lowell Jewish Beth Curren Judy Sacks Pat Crane have contributed directly to Technical Director ' City of Lowell Thomas Golden, Sr. Community Rina Deth Anne Scheinberg Mel Daley the success of this festival: Andy Wallace Richard P. Howe Fred Greenwood Shirley Pearlman Brian Edmiston Guha Shankar Dick Donahue members of the Folk Festival Festival Coordinator, Mayor Gail Halligan Greek Regatta - St. George Pat Edmiston Daphne Shuttleworth Marshall Field committees In Lowell who Program Book Editor James Campbell Richard Halligan Greek Orthodox Church I Kamyar Enshayan Margaret Mary Sidlick Mary Ellen Fitzpatrick formulated and carried Peter Schwarz City Manager Robert Howard Angie Pappas Phil Fox Paul Sidlick Susan Flaherty 1 through with many of the Intern Tom Bellegarde Carol Howard Indonesia Group Simon Fritzlan Doug Smith Frank Giacomazzi details of the festival; and the Jessie Payne Don Doubleday Warren Howard Alex Celossie Janice Gadaire Mary Jane Soule John Harrington following friends who have Crafts Area Coordinator & Roger Maxfield Carol Lafontaine lskwelahang-Pilipino Robert Garfinkle Cal Southworth Michelle Hatem assisted us with the 51st Fieldwork Deputy Supt. William Finn Pauline Lafontaine Cristina Castro Magdelena Gilinsky Nick Spitzer John Hogan National Folk Festival pr Ruth Meehan The National Council for t he Traditional lloanl ol Dlrecton I Rosemary Noon Arts (NCTA) Is a prlv,,te, not-for-profit John Hoium, Chainnan Jessie Payne cori>oratlon founded In 1933, dedicated Charles Camp, President Pete Psareas to the presentation and documentation of Barry Pearson, Vice President IRich ard Scott folk and traditional arts of lhc United Stephen Wade, Secretary Zenny Speronls States. The programs of the Council I Gerald Parson s, Treasurer I Peter Stamas c:elebrntc t'lnd honor those arts that are John Ce1>has Sgt. William Stowell deeply tr.'.\dltlonal- muslc, crafts, stories, John Green Frank Trombley and dance 1,nsscd down through time by George Holt Lauress Wllktns families, communities, and ethnic grou11s. Suzi Jones The NCTA stresses quality and authentic Scott Lilly Other Hclpen ity In 1iresentlng folk ar tists to the public Tim Lloyd Marlo Aste In concer ts, national and International Ellen Lovell Diane Blanco tours, festivals, radio programs, films, Charlie Madigan Wtlllam Boumll and other venues. Dave Marash Paul Bourassa The NCTA Is gift-supported and Bill McNeil Terry Bourassa dependent upon the goodwill and Howard Sacks Denise Comito generosity of those who believe Its work Carol Silverman I Nancy Donahue is beneficial. It Is supported by Individu Jeanne Simon Earl Duxbury als, corporations, foundations, and Ricky Skaggs Marta Gredler government agencies that make grants to Nick Spitzer Kate Greenberg arts organizations. Contrib utions are tax Polly Stewart Jim Hlgg1ns deductible. Nancy Sweezy Lowell Boys Club Dick Van Kleeck Lowell Chapter - For more Information write: I John Vlach American Red Cross National Council for the Traditional Arts Lowell Girls Club 806 15th Street, N.W., #400 N.C.T.A. Staff Gerry Matte Washington, D.C. 20005 Joe Wilson, Terry Matte 202/ 639-8370 Executive Director Paul McCarthy I Richard Kennedy JoeMolllgl Associate Director Judy Molllgl Meg Glaser Mike Molllgl Program Director Michele Osmond Pete Reiniger, Vaughan Osmond Special Projects Coordinator Ruth Page Andy Wallace, Rosanne Riddick Events Coordinator Joan Ross Peter Schwarz, Betty Sheahan Intern David Sheahan Larry Shelvey Nancy Sullivan Tew-Mac Squadron, Civil Air Patrol Larry Walsh Harold Waterhouse Graphic Identity by Kevin Osborn. Research & Design Associates, e- Arlington, Virginia 5lsr ~ lFo1LK