COLOR FRONT COVER COLOR PAGE 2: Support CGOTH COLOR PAGE 3: CG on the Shore/ CG on the Border COLOR PAGE 4 2013-14 Concerts Welcome to our 19th Season! In this catalog you will find a year's worth of activities that will enrich your life. Common Ground on the Hill is a traditional, roots-based music and arts organization founded in 1994, offering quality learning experiences with master musicians, artists, dancers, writers, filmmakers and educators while exploring cultural diversity in search of a common ground among ethnic, gender, age, and racial groups. The Baltimore Sun has compared Common Ground on the Hill to the Chautauqua and Lyceum movements, precursors to this exciting program. Our world is one of immense diversity. As we explore and celebrate this diversity, we find that what we have in common with one another far outweighs our differences. Our common ground is our humanity, often best expressed by artistic traditions that have enriched human experience through the ages. We invite you to join us in searching for common ground as we assemble around the belief that we can improve ourselves and our world by searching for the common ground in one another, through our artistic traditions. In a world filled with divisive, negative news, we seek to discover, create and celebrate good news. We continue to grow! Common Ground on the Hill is a multifaceted year-round program, including two separate Traditions Weeks of summer classes, concerts and activities, held on the campus of McDaniel College, two Music and Arts festivals held at the Carroll County Farm Museum, two seven-event Monthly Concert Series held in Westminster and Baltimore, and this summer's second annual Common Ground on Seminary Ridge at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Two new Common Ground on the Hill programs will launch in 2014: In January, Common Ground on the Shore in Chincoteague, Virginia, and in March, Common Ground on the Border in Sahuarita, Arizona. As a Common Ground on the Hill participant you may choose from a broad spectrum of the arts springing from a wealth of traditions. Whether your interest is instrumental music, fine arts and craft, singing, dance, spoken or written word; whether the traditions that interest you are African American, Native American, Middle Eastern, Latino, Celtic, Appalachian, Asian or Scandinavian in origin, to name a few, you will find activities and events that will renew you. You will meet people who will inspire you and, believe it or not, you will inspire others as you reach for common ground. We look forward to seeing you this summer and throughout the year! Walt Michael, Founder & Executive Director “You owe it to yourself to attend one of the sessions… Common Ground on the Hill is a cornucopia of artistic expression.” ~ Baltimore Sun As a student during the 1960’s at Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College), Walt went to Appalachia with the Student Opportunities Service to participate in community action work and traveled to parts of the Deep South to work in voter registration campaigns. While working with America’s poor and disenfranchised, he encountered the beauty and power of traditional music. For forty years, Walt has led a variety of ensembles, performing throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. He returned to his alma mater in 1994 to found Common Ground on the Hill. As Executive Director, Walt leads Common Ground on the Hill toward its stated goal of seeking racial and cultural harmony through the arts. Welcome 1 Contents 19th Annual Common Ground on the Hill Overview ............................................................. 3 Workshops and Events ........................................................................................................................ 3 Common Ground on the Hill Festival .................................................................................................. 3 Common Ground on Seminary Ridge ................................................................................................... 3 Common Ground on the Border .......................................................................................................... 3 Common Ground on the Shore ............................................................................................................ 3 Deer Creek Fiddlers’ Convention .......................................................................................................... 3 2013–2014 Concert Series ................................................................................................................... 3 General Information ................................................................................................................. 4 The Common Ground on the Hill “Village” .............................................................................. 6 Board of Directors ............................................................................................................................... 6 Directors Emeriti .................................................................................................................................. 6 Advisory Board .................................................................................................................................... 6 With a Little Help From Our Friends .................................................................................................... 7 Staff ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 Traditions Week 1..................................................................................................................... 8 List of Classes and Events by Category ................................................................................................ 8 Special Gatherings ............................................................................................................................... 9 Distinctive Lecture Series .................................................................................................................... 9 Class Descriptions .............................................................................................................................. 13 Traditions Week 2 ................................................................................................................... 32 List of Classes and Events by Category .............................................................................................. 32 Special Gatherings ............................................................................................................................. 33 Distinctive Lecture Series .................................................................................................................. 33 Class Descriptions .............................................................................................................................. 35 Traditions Weeks Schedule-At-A-Glance ............................................................................... 54 Common Ground on Seminary Ridge ............................................................................... 56 List of Classes and Events by Category ............................................................................................... 56 Class Descriptions ............................................................................................................................... 57 Instructors, Artists, Staff & Festival Headliners ..................................................................... 60 Registration Forms: Traditions Weeks .................................................................................... 78 Registration Forms: Common Ground on Seminary Ridge .................................................... 81 Common Ground Raffle .......................................................................................................... 83 2013 Robert H. Chambers Award for Excellence in the Traditional Arts .............................. 84 Common Ground on the Hill Fine Arts & Crafts Award........................................................... 85 Evening Concerts and Events .................................................................................................. 86 Photos: Pamela Zappardino, and individual artists/agents/participants; Walt Michael photo by Jim Rice 2 2013 Common Ground on the Hill 19th Annual Common Ground on the Hill Overview 2013–2014 Concert Series: Westminster and Baltimore Common Ground on the Hill produces two monthly concert series from September through April at two locations: Fridays at Brown Memorial Woodbrook Presbyterian Church in Baltimore and on Saturdays at the Carroll Arts Center Theater in Westminster, featuring nationally and internationally renowned traditional roots-based artists. See the color pages at the front of this catalog for details. The Deer Creek Fiddlers' Convention ~ June 8th, 2013 Common Ground on the Hill produces the 41st Anniversary Deer Creek Fiddlers' Convention on Saturday, June 8th, 2013, at the Carroll County Farm Museum, 500 South Center St., Westminster, MD. This venerable Maryland tradition brings together bluegrass, old-time and Celtic musicians and dancers who take part in competitions in a wide variety of categories. Shade tree music abounds, as do Maryland crafts and foodways. See the color pages at the back of this catalog for details, and consult