2006 Kentucky Performing Arts D I R E C T O R Y 2006 Kentucky Performing Arts D I R E C T O R Y Ernie Fletcher Kentucky Arts Council Kentucky Arts Council Staff Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Board of Directors Gerri Combs, Executive Director W. James Host Robert E. Gable, Chair, Frankfort Lori Meadows, Executive Staff Advisor Secretary of the Commerce Cabinet Everett D. McCorvey, Vice-Chair, Lexington Ed Lawrence, Public Information Officer Lindy Casebier Stephanie C. Bateman, Louisville Executive Director, Office of Arts and Cultural Melissa Nesselrode, Administrative Assistant Heritage Nancy S. Cooper, Ft. Thomas Jean Dorton, Paintsville Administrative Branch Paul E. Fourshee, Cadiz Maraskeshia Walker, Administrative Branch Kelly G. Knight, Lexington Manager Todd P. Lowe, Louisville Deborah Catlett, Database Manager Jo G. Marshall, Ph.D., Somerset Sandy Etherington, Grants Manager Ann Duggins Schell, Louisville Sandie Lawrence, Information Technology Gregory S. Shumate, Fort Mitchell Administrator Kathleen Smith, Louisville Teresa Wade, Fiscal Officer Retha Tarter, Madisonville Janrose Tunnell, Richmond Arts Program Branch Randall C. Vaughn, Lexington Daniel Strauss, Arts Program Branch Manager James R. Voyles, Louisville John S. Benjamin, Arts in Education Program Director Mark Brown, Folklife Specialist Bob Gates, Folklife Program Director Amber Luallen, Individual Artist and Community Arts Program Director Sarah Milligan, Folklife Specialist

Craft Marketing Program Fran Redmon, Craft Marketing Program Director Nancy Atcher, Product Development Beau Haddock, Media Communications and Marketing Vallorie Henderson, Special Projects Connie Hicks, Marketing Specialist Kim Leingang, Administrative Assistant Charla Reed, Outreach & Training The Performing Arts Directory is a program of the Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. Introduction Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 

The Kentucky Arts Council Kentucky Arts Council 500 Mero Street 21st Floor The Kentucky Arts Council, an agency of the Commerce Cabinet, was Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 established by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1965 by executive Toll free: order “to develop and promote support for the arts in Kentucky.” The 888-833-2787 Kentucky Arts Council provides grants, awards and technical assistance Local: to Kentucky artists, not-for-profit organizations and schools committed 502-564-3757 to providing arts and cultural programs and services to the public. All Fax: 502-564-2839 Kentucky Arts Council grants are contingent upon budgetary action by E-mail: the Kentucky General Assembly and Partnership Agreement Grant funds [email protected] from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Web site: www.artscouncil.ky.gov Mission and End Statements The mission of the Kentucky Arts Council is that the people of Kentucky value and participate in the arts. Our goals are met when:

1. Kentuckians value the role of arts in society.

2. There is support for arts education in Kentucky.

3. There is efficient statewide delivery of arts programs and services.

4. Artists live and work in a supportive environment.

5. Public policy is favorable to the arts in Kentucky. Introduction  Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Welcome to the Kentucky Performing Arts Directory Kentucky Arts Council’s Performing Arts Directory. Program Purpose The purpose of the Kentucky Arts Council’s Performing Arts Directory is to promote, showcase and provide professional development opportunities to a diverse selection of Kentucky’s finest contemporary and traditional performing artists. In addition, the Directory serves as an important resource for in-state and out-of-state presenters from all types of venues to identify and select Kentucky performers for their own performance bookings and projects. This program seeks to distribute the artistic wealth of the performing arts throughout Kentucky and enables quality professional performing artists to be seen by audiences outside their home communities.

The artists, ensembles and companies included in the Performing Arts Directory are selected by in- and out-of-state performing arts professionals. Performers’ applications are reviewed and artists are selected for the Directory based upon their Artistic Excellence, Performance Experience and Marketing Capacity.

The 2006 Performing Arts Directory also includes traditional artists who have been included in the Kentucky Folklife Program’s Roster of Traditional Music. The Kentucky Arts Council is very pleased to now have one Directory that includes the wonderful traditional and contemporary performers in our state. (Please see page 6 for more information on the Kentucky Folklife Program and the traditional artists included in this Directory.)

All of the artists included in the Directory are available for touring and many of the artists also offer residency and educational programs in addition to their public performances. The Kentucky Arts Council encourages presenters to take advantage of residency and educational opportunities with the performers, as it will enhance your public Introduction Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 

performances. The KAC also encourages presenters to discuss the community and presenting needs with the artists and work together to develop specific programming.

Program Support The Kentucky Arts Council (KAC) offers the following support to ensure that the Performing Arts Directory program standards and goals are met: • Each fiscal year, the Kentucky Arts Council produces a print Performing Arts Directory. The Performing Arts Directory is also posted to the KAC Web site. • The KAC showcases artists from the Performing Arts Directory to in- and out-of-state presenters at events such as the Kentucky Folklife Festival, Kentucky On Stage, and on the Cultural Stage of the annual event, Kentucky Crafted: The Market. • The KAC also provides Performing Arts Directory artists with opportunities to market their recordings and videos. The Marketplace, the Kentucky Arts Council’s booth at Kentucky Crafted: The Market, enables wholesale and retail buyers to purchase CDs, cassettes and videos while at the Market or through the KAC catalogue. In addition, artists included in the Performing Arts Directory may also market their products through the Kentucky Collection, a wholesale marketing effort of the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program. Funding Opportunities Please refer to the Kentucky Arts Council’s Web site, www.artscouncil. ky.gov, about the following funding opportunities:

The Arts Build Communities (ABC) Grant encourages partnerships between artists and organizations that contribute to the cultural, social, educational and economic growth of the community. Individual artists and organizations may apply. Funded activities may include community Introduction  Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

For more information about the Perform- art projects, residencies, the creation of new work, performances and ing Arts on Tour Grant, the Arts Build Communities Grant or other Kentucky Arts exhibits, other public art events, meaningful dialogues, etc. ABC Grant Council programs, please see the Kentucky requests may be for up to $5,000 for community projects and up to Arts Council Web site: $7,500 for community residencies. The next deadline will be March 31, www.artscouncil.ky.gov 2006 for projects taking place July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007.

The Performing Arts on Tour Grant provides Kentucky presenters with partial fee support (up to 50%) for booking artists, ensembles and companies included in the Kentucky Arts Council 2006 Performing Arts Directory or the adjudicated performing arts directory of the following state arts agencies in the Southern Arts Federation (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina). Grants may be for up to $7,500 for a single booking or $5,000 for multiple bookings. The next deadline will be December 15, 2005 for performances taking place For more information about applying to the Performing Arts Directory, contact: July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007.

Amber Luallen, Artist & Community Arts Program Director Applying for Inclusion in the 2007 Directory Kentucky Arts Council Applications will be accepted annually for the Kentucky Arts Council’s 500 Mero Street 21st Floor Performing Arts Directory. The print Directory will be published every Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Fiscal Year. The next application deadline for artists who wish to be Toll free: considered for inclusion in the Performing Arts Directory will be March 888-833-2787 1, 2006. Artists are selected for a two-year period. At the conclusion Local: 502-564-3757 of their two-year period, artists are required to reapply if they wish to Fax: remain in the Directory. 502-564-2839 E-mail: Traditional Artists in the Directory [email protected] Web site: Since the spring of 1992, the Tour of Kentucky Folk Music, a program of www.artscouncil.ky.gov the Kentucky Arts Council, has provided Kentucky communities with the opportunity to present the best of our state’s regional folk music. In 2003, the Tour of Kentucky Folk Music artists joined the Kentucky Arts Council’s Performing Arts Directory performers to provide all presenters with the widest choices of quality artistry available in the commonwealth. Introduction Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 

What constitutes a traditional folk performer? Traditional artists in this directory (designated with the Kentucky Folklife Roster Artist logo seen at the right) are musicians who are not only of high caliber but also reflect the values and aesthetics of the Traditional Folk Performers folk group (ethnic, regional, family groups) they represent. The sixteen Roger Cooper designated traditional artists listed below and found throughout the Gospelway Bluegrass Singers pages of this publication have all been recognized and documented John Edmonds and the Gospel Truth over the years by folklorists, ethnomusicologists, and other cultural Arthur Hatfield and Buck Creek researchers tied to the Kentucky Folklife Program. Whether they are The Hays Brothers African-American Drummers, Old Time String Musicians, or Blues or Kentucky Wild Horse Bluegrass players, each traditional roster artist or group described in this Homer Ledford and Cabin Creek directory are emblematic of an intimately learned traditional music form Cari Norris and Jim McGee alive in Kentucky today. Included in the margin of this page is a list of the traditional folk artists found in this 2006 Performing Arts Directory. Eddie Pennington Rabbit Hash String Band Presenting Folk Artists—Framing the Cultural Context Steve Rector Reel World String Band One of the most important things about the traditional artists, aside Reynolds Family Band from their talent, is their connection to the unique cultural community River City Drum Corp to which they belong. Presenters wanting to bring to their location Jennifer Rose traditional folk artists are highly encouraged to include introductions of Sexton and Slone the group by a knowledgeable presenter (either a folklorist or cultural Hong Shao specialist familiar with the musical folk genre) who will introduce each Zoe Speaks group and help to interpret the styles and aesthetic backgrounds of the performers for the audience. Community outreach such as workshops and programs for schools and senior citizen centers preceding the concert are also encouraged. For a list of cultural presenters please contact the Kentucky Folklife Program: 1-502-564-1792 or toll free at 1-877-444-7867. Bob Gates Director: [email protected] Mark Brown, Folklife Specialist: [email protected] Sarah Milligan, Folklife Specialist: [email protected] Introduction  Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Terminology Terminology can sometimes differ amongst arts professionals and artists. For the purposes of the Kentucky Performing Arts Directory, the following definitions are offered to help establish a common vocabulary.

Artist/Artists: Performing artist(s), whether individuals, ensembles, or companies in dance, theater, music, storytelling, or other performing arts disciplines.

Presenter: An organization that contracts touring performance artist(s) to present the artist’s work to the public. The presenter provides space, local technical support, advertising and the artist’s fee. Presenters may be performing arts facilities, schools, libraries, festivals or other venues.

Public Performance: A performance that is marketed to and welcomes the community-at-large.

Residency Activities: Activities that support the public performance and enhance the audience’s understanding of the artist’s work. These may include master classes, workshops, lecture/demonstrations and other creative approaches to engage the community. Residency activities may be conducted with participants of any age, either on-site at the presenter’s facility or at other venues within the community. They may be offered by the roster artist and/or by other experts who can provide information or activities that will enhance understanding of the artist’s work.

Touring: Artist’s engagements which are contracted by a presenter and which take place outside the artist’s home community. “Touring” includes “run-outs”—short performance trips that are completed within a day. Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 

Dance Art! Art! Barking Dog Dance Company....12 Kentucky Ballet Theatre...... 13 Lexington Vintage Dance Society...... 14 Louisville Ballet...... 15 Contents Music: Ensembles Music: Choral The Betweeners...... 60 American Spiritual Ensemble...... 18 Ceruti Chamber Players...... 61 Derby City Chorus...... 19 Gospelway Bluegrass Singers...... 62 Louisville Bach Society...... 20 Arthur Hatfield and Buck Creek...... 63 Louisville Chorus...... 21 The Hays Brothers...... 64 Cover: Hog Operation...... 65 High Lonesome, a Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios John Christopher Knight and Family...... 66 painting by Steve Juggernaut Jug Band...... 67 White, Maysville, Uncle Mike Carr...... 24 Kentucky Wild Horse...... 68 Kentucky. Steve is a juried member of Daniel and Amy Carwile...... 25 Homer Ledford and the the Kentucky Arts Ceol Cridhe...... 26 Cabin Creek Band...... 69 Council’s Visual Arts at the Market Roger Cooper...... 27 No Tools Loaned...... 70 program. See more of his work at www. Willie Eames...... 28 Osland Saxophone Quartet...... 71 stevewhitefineart.com. Diane Earle...... 29 James Price, Rick Oldfield EarthHeart...... 30 and Kentucky Reign...... 72 John Edmonds...... 31 Rabbit Hash String Band...... 73 Richard Goering...... 32 Reel World String Band...... 74 Colin Grant-Adams...... 33 Reynolds Family Band...... 75 Orville Hammond...... 34 River City Drum Corps...... 76 Holland & Corn...... 35 Saxton’s Cornet Band...... 77 Jay Flippin/Gordon Towell Jazz Duo...... 36 Southern Horizon...... 78 Lorinda Jones...... 37 Tim Lake...... 38 Music: Orchestra Andrew Leonard...... 39 John S. Moore...... 40 Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra...... 80 Cari Norris and Jim McGee...... 41 Kentucky Symphony Orchestra...... 81 The Onion Traders...... 42 Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra...... 82 Pale, Stout and Amber...... 43 Louisville Orchestra...... 83 Eddie Pennington...... 44 Raison D’Etre...... 45 Storytelling and Theatre Steve Rector...... 46 Mary Hamilton...... 86 Butch Rice...... 47 Juneteenth Legacy Theatre...... 87 Jennifer Rose...... 48 Kentuckiana African American Greg Schaber...... 49 Arts Series...... 88 Sexton and Slone...... 50 Lexington Children’s Theatre...... 89 Hong Shao...... 51 Roadside Theatre...... 90 Mike Tracy...... 52 Octavia Sexton...... 91 Troubadours of Divine Bliss...... 53 Squallis Puppeteers...... 92 Carla Van Hoose...... 54 Irina Voro...... 55 Additional Resources...... 93 Randy Wilson...... 56 Zoe Speaks...... 57 10 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 11

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Art! Art! Barking Dog Dance Company

Art! Art! Barking Dog Dance Company is Kentucky’s premier professional modern dance troupe. Its highly entertaining programs feature an eclectic mix of works, ranging from the absurdly humorous to the starkly dramatic.

Founded in 1996 by dancers/ The troupe enjoys performing, Booking: choreographers Anastasia teaching, and choreographing Anastasia McGlothlin McGlothlin, Alan Lommasson 8004 Shadow Creek Road in settings ranging from concert and Lynn Slaughter, Barking Dog Crestwood, KY 40014-8933 halls to schools, universities, is dedicated both to providing Phone: museums, libraries, community 502-241-5271 high quality dance performances centers and public parks. Art! Art! Phone2: and dance educational experiences Barking Dog Dance Company’s 502-254-3713 tailored to presenters’ needs. acclaimed school performances Fax: 502-254-3713 (call first) and study guides introduce E-mail: children to movement concepts [email protected] drawn from the core content Number of performers: 5-9 guidelines. Fee Range: $1,200-5,000 Available for block booking Dance Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 13

Kentucky Ballet Theatre

Kentucky Ballet Theatre is now in its 7th year as a professional performing company, and this rising young dance company has made the entire state its home base. While they field a full dance season in Lexington, they are also available to your community for performances of such favorites as Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, as a ballet. The company has also Booking: Cinderella, and Hoops. The made extraordinary commitment Norbe Risco company can also tailor a Jan Foody to dance education in schools 736 National Ave performance of contemporary or throughout the commonwealth. Lexington, KY 40502-1432 neo-classical works and can create Since 1999, Kentucky ballet Phone: 859-252-5245 site-appropriate town packages. Theatre has reached over 70,000 Phone2: Taking advantage of its diverse children with a dual performance/ 859-277-2227 education presentation. artistic base, Artistic Director Fax: 859-252-7925 Norbe Risco premiered The Kentucky Ballet Theatre—your Wizard of Oz as a ballet. This was E-mail: dance company! [email protected] the first time in the world that Web site: this family classic has been done www.kyballet.com Number of performers: 10 and up Fee Range: $6,000-15,000 (Wizard of Oz: $30,000) Available for block booking Dance 14 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Lexington Vintage Dance Society

Ladies’ dresses swirl gracefully and gentlemen’s tailcoats fly to the music of romantic waltzes and robust mazurkas when the Lexington Vintage Dance Society takes the stage. Specializing in the ballroom and social dances of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Lexington Vintage Dance Society captures these eras with Audiences love the interplay Booking: verve and historical authenticity: of dance, history, music, and Karen Anderson 3832 Hidden Springs Drive Regency (1800-1830), the time beautiful costumes. People say Lexington, KY 40514 of Lewis and Clark and Jane they didn’t realize dances of the Phone: Austen; Romantic (1840-1875) past were so lively and so much 859-539-9721 with dynamic polkas, waltzes, and fun. E-mail: mazurkas; Late Victorian (1875- [email protected] 1905), with the glorious Viennese One of the few performing vintage Number of performers: 2-13 waltz; Ragtime (1910-1917), when dance groups in the nation, the Fee Range: $250-5,000 people moved in new ways to new Lexington Vintage Dance Society music; and Jazz Age (1920-1935), also offers workshops, classes, and Available for block booking era of the Charleston. demonstrations. Dance Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 15

Louisville Ballet Booking: Vincent Falardo 315 East Main Street The Louisville Ballet, the State Louisville, KY 40202-1215 ballet of Kentucky, founded in Phone: 502-583-3150 March 1952, reaches more than Fax: 100,000 people annually. The 502-583-0006 Company has earned the national E-mail: reputation as one of the country’s [email protected] leading regional ballet companies Web site: www.louisvilleballet.org with more than 50 world premiere ballets to its credit and Number of performers: 12-28 a repertoire of over 135 works. Fee Range: $10,000-15,000 The primary mission of a ballet offer a diversity of works to catch Available for block booking company is to educate audiences the attention of dance enthusiasts in the tradition, the appreciation, of every kind. From classical and technical aspects of pieces including Swan Lake, Don dance. Touring programs and Quixote, and The Nutcracker to educational activities help to fulfill contemporary programs such as that mission. George Balanchine’s Who Cares? A solid base in the classical and Harrison McEldowney’s tradition makes possible a wide Dance Sport, the Louisville Ballet’s range of dance performances, repertoire appeals to a wide enabling the Louisville Ballet to audience. Dance 16 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 17

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American Spiritual Ensemble

The American Spiritual Ensemble was founded by Everett McCorvey in 1995. The mission of the American Spiritual Ensemble is to keep the American Negro spiritual alive. The repertoire ranges from spirituals to classical to Broadway and dance. The members of the American Spiritual Ensemble throughout the United States, Booking: are soloists in their own right, Europe and South America and James E. Lee, Jr. 626 Brookgreen Lane and the vocalists have thrilled has toured Spain nine times, Lexington, KY 40509-1952 audiences around the world presenting over 80 concerts. Its Phone: with their dynamic renditions of founder, Everett McCorvey, holds 859-263-8819 classic spirituals, opera, jazz and an Endowed Professorship in Phone2: 859-257-9331 Broadway numbers highlighting Voice and is Director of Opera at the University of Kentucky in Fax: the Black experience. The 859-233-0789 Lexington, Kentucky. American Spiritual Ensemble E-mail: has presented diverse concerts [email protected] Web site: www.americanspiritualensemble.com Number of performers: 16-22 Fee Range: $12,000-15,000 Available for block booking Music: Choral Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 19

Derby City Chorus

Derby City Chorus delivers musical excellence with close four-part harmonies in the a capella style under the direction of Allen Hatton. Derby City Chorus, from the Kentuckiana area, shares relationship with world-renowned Booking: a love of music and camaraderie. songwriter Mrs. Chilton Price. Leanne Bowles 1921 Elba Drive Their musical presentation, She has composed two original Louisville, KY 40218 accomplishments and delivery works for the chorus, which Phone: are an extraordinary musical they were proud to introduce on 502-454-0121 experience for their audiences. contest stage and for local and E-mail: The year 2004 was a wonderful international audiences. Derby [email protected] year for the chorus. They were City is excited to sing new original Web site: www.derbycitychorus.com crowned International Champions works to be unveiled this year Number of performers: 35-40 for the fourth consecutive time both on stage and on their new Fee Range: in Rochester, New York and have recordings. $500-2,500 been very fortunate to establish a Derby City Chorus will inspire, delight, and thrill you with their artistry, diverse repertoire, choreography and magnificent harmonies. Music: Choral 20 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Louisville Bach Society

The Louisville Bach Society, now in its 40th anniversary season, continues to fulfill its mission in bringing the finest in classical choral performance to audiences both in its Louisville home as well as those throughout the state. Like most choral societies in the world, it is a semi-professional singers. The Society’s resident Booking: organization, whose singers are musicologist, Dr. John Hale, Michele Wogaman New Performing Arts devoted to sharing repertory provides both program notes and Phone: from Handel, Bach and Brahms informal pre-concert lectures for 800-451-0032 to Ralph Vaughn Williams and audiences that make the music E-mail: Zoltan Kodaly. and its composers come to life [email protected] even before the thrill of the Number of performers: 60-80 In addition to a four-concert performance itself! Fee Range: season and school-time $7,000-11,000 education programs in Louisville, Make the Louisville Bach Society, Available for block booking The Bach Society tours with the and the power of choral music, Louisville Bach Society Orchestra a part of your performance and its full chorus of 60+ calendar! Music: Choral Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 21

Louisville Chorus

Thriving for 65 seasons, The Louisville Chorus has the distinction of being the longest- sustaining choral arts agency in the Commonwealth. A member of Chorus America, The Louisville Chorus is a professional-quality chorus of auditioned singers. Their mission is to foster the art of choral music through music, classical selections Booking: performances and educational and romantic and holiday Therese Davis 6303 Fern Valley Pass programs and to present a performances. The Chorus has Louisville, KY 40228-1059 versatile repertoire while released professional compact Phone: conveying accentuated emphasis disk recordings and performs 502-968-6300 on the character and style of each regularly with other groups such Fax: work. as The Louisville Orchestra. The 502-962-1094 Louisville Chorus also strives E-mail: With S. Timothy Glasscock as [email protected] to make the pleasure of choral Artistic Director, The Louisville Number of performers: 4-30 music available to students Chorus thrills audiences Fee Range: through its Opus 4 Education/ with choral masterworks, $375-7,500 Outreach program. sacred, secular and popular Available for block booking music, Broadway tunes, blues, The Louisville Chorus: Character, international and multi-cultural Vitality, Perseverance, and Integrity in the Arts! Music: Choral 22 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 23

Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 24 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Uncle Mike Carr

Uncle Mike Carr fiddles and sings his way through Southern Appalachian Mountain history and culture in his energetic program that emphasizes the importance of music, history, storytelling and humor. Uncle Mike promotes and perpetuates awareness and pride in the Appalachian lifestyle, taking his Booking: unique style of mountain music Mike Carr to schools, festivals, historical 5510 Wolf Road reenactments and concerts. Uncle Alexandria, KY 41001-9465 Mike Carr is a player of “honest to Phone: goodness string music of the hills.” 859-635-0315 E-mail: [email protected] Number of performers: 1-3 Fee Range: $600-3,000 Not available for block booking Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 25

Daniel and Amy Carwile Booking: Daniel and Amy Carwile PO Box 23881 Champion fiddlers Daniel and Lexington, KY 40523 Amy Carwile perform an eclectic Phone: 859-619-4741 blend of music showcasing their E-mail: versatility on fiddle, mandolin, [email protected] bouzouki, guitar, piano, and Web site: vocals. Their broad repertoire www.carwilestringstudio.com includes traditional tunes as Number of Performers: 2 well as original compositions Fee Range: stylistically ranging from $500-2,500 Bluegrass, Celtic, and Classical, Available for block booking to Contest-Style, Old-Time, and Texas Swing. Daniel and Amy are a dynamic “They are two of the most husband and wife musical duo accomplished musicians I have whose personal connection lends run across in a long time,” said poignancy to their music and Don Rigsby, head of the Kentucky spark to their performances. Center for Traditional Music. Their own unique combination “Amy and Daniel are masters of of traditional music with their art,” added Alex McKinven, modern interpretations is coordinator of the Mull of truly unforgettable. Whether Kintyre Festival in Scotland. mesmerizing the audience with “Pulsating, heart stopping reels a slow harmony or busting and jigs, their music defies and bow strings on foot-stomping audience to remain seated. Simply hoedowns, the Carwiles deliver, exhilarating!” straight from the heart. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 26 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Ceol Cridhe

Imagine yourself in a neighborhood pub in Ireland or Scotland. In a room full of friends and casual acquaintances, a local band is livening up the evening with a set of folk songs, reels, jigs and airs on fiddle, guitar, harp, piano and voice. Including old favorites, the band is also interspersing modern songs that conform with the ancient more modern selections “in the Booking: traditions of the Celtic lands. folk tradition,” Ceol Cridhe brings Bob Cox 5028 Huntington Woods Road This describes the scene that Ceol Celtic music into the twenty-first Frankfort, KY 40601-9767 Cridhe (pronounced Ke-ol Cree), century. Ceol Cridhe consists Phone: a Frankfort-based trio, creates of Jack Twombly on the guitar, 502-226-5540 bouzouki, and lead vocals; Bob Phone2: when they perform. Presenting 502-227-5080 a mélange of traditional music Cox playing fiddle, bodhran, and backup vocals; and Bryn Bowen E-mail: from the Celtic lands of Ireland, [email protected] Cox on electroharp, keyboard, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, and Number of performers: 3 concertina, and backup vocals. Fee Range: $350-650 Available for block booking Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 27

Roger Cooper Booking: Roger W. Cooper HC 74 Box 1215 Roger Cooper is one of only Garrison, KY 41141 a handful of Lewis County, Phone: 606-757-4749 Kentucky fiddlers of his Number of performers 2-5 generation to grow up performing Fee Range: the region’s distinctive style of $400 and up local fiddling. Raised in an area Available for block booking of great fiddlers, Roger began his musical career at age 12 playing guitar behind Joe Stamper Having played for over forty years, on Vanceburg’s WKKS radio Cooper has participated in many station. Over the years he has projects with the Kentucky Arts learned from many great notable Council and the Kentucky Folklife Kentucky fiddlers like Buddy Program. He has recorded many Thomas, George Hawkins, Jimmy of the tunes in his repertoire, and Wheeler, and Bob Prater and they are available on Rounder has taken his regional style of Records. fiddle playing across the country, performing at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend, Washington, and at Lincoln Center in New York City. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 28 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Willie Eames

Willie Eames is a professional musician from Lexington, Kentucky playing blues, rock, funk, reggae and jazz. He composes, arranges, and performs. As a solo performer, blues is his main venue. Eames has been a musician for 25 years. His blues repertoire is a mixture of originals and classics from the likes of Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, Robert Johnson, and other greats. The blues have been with Eames Booking: wherever he goes, and the journey Willie Eames Eames plays bars, weddings, 215 Arlington Avenue will last the rest of his life. He Lexington, KY 40508 festivals, schools, clubs, parks, and looks forward to performing Phone: theaters. He was a finalist for the and taking his audiences on the 859-367-0002 National Blues Society solo/duo journey with him. E-mail: competition in Memphis in 2004. [email protected] He has seen that music moves any Number of performers: 1 one in any place at any time. Fee Range: $75-250 Available for block booking Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 29

Diane Earle Booking: Diane Earle 3307 Wilson Lane Diane Earle is a piano soloist Owensboro, KY 42303-6480 as well as musical collaborator Phone: 270-684-7527 and has performed in six Phone2: countries and twenty-seven 270-852-3617 states. A frequent soloist with Fax: the Owensboro Symphony 270-926-3196 Orchestra, her “Go for E-mail: [email protected] Baroque” program has met with considerable success. Her Diane is a Yamaha Regional Number of performers: 1 performances include a variety Artist and is also an Instructor for Fee Range: $250-1500 of musical styles: from Baroque Owensboro’s Riverpark Center’s Available for block booking to contemporary, from classical “Arts in the A.M.” programs for to movie themes, from specialty schoolchildren. programs such as “love themes” Diane holds a Doctor of Musical to Gershwin. Arts degree in Piano Performance from Ohio State University, and for the past nineteen years has been a Professor of Music at Kentucky Wesleyan College. She also has enjoyed recording several compact discs. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 30 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

EarthHeart

John Gage, leader of EarthHeart, is a veteran showman who has established a strong following over the past 30 years as a premier folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, emcee, and host of Homefront, a radio show broadcast on public radio stations across Kentucky.

As a solo performer or together with EarthHeart, John performs extensively throughout the region John specializes in building Booking: in art centers, festivals, clubs, community through his musical John Gage theatres, churches, libraries, 1016 Baxter Avenue performances and stories. The schools and just about anyplace Louisville, KY 40204-1606 mission is to bring people and where there is an audience just Phone: communities together through 502-583-4243 waiting to sing along. John has music. Phone2: recorded four commercial albums, 502-777-8068 including two with EarthHeart, EarthHeart also provides Fax: and has produced several specialized arts education music 502-540-9952 recording projects with students. programs and works in outdoor E-mail: [email protected] education to support teachers Number of performers: 1-5 creating learning experiences for Fee Range: students. $350-1,800 Available for block booking Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 31

John Edmonds Booking: John Edmonds 448 Webb Drive John Edmonds boasts a career Bowling Green, KY 42101-1185 that spans nearly four decades, Phone: 270-843-4863 hundreds of cities, more than Phone2: thirty states, and fifteen countries 270-535-4857 on six continents. With twelve Number of performers: 1-7 record albums to his credit, Fee Range: Edmonds has taken his high- $2,000-3,000 energy motivational gospel Available for block booking sounds to such diverse venues Uplifting gospel vocals and fine as West Hollywood’s Studio piano playing are John Edmonds’ One Back Lot, Bloomsburg trademark as a solo performer University in Pennsylvania, the or with his group, the John USS America aircraft carrier, Edmonds’ Gospel Truth. In the California’s Six Flags Magic words of Touched by an Angel star Mountain, and the Smithsonian Della Reese, “It is exciting! It is Institute in our nation’s capitol. spirit-filled! And it is an awful lot of fun to listen to John Edmonds’ Gospel Truth.” Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 32 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Richard Goering Booking: Richard Goering 15 Princeton Avenue Guitarist Richard Goering was Ft Mitchell, KY 41017-2815 first moved to play the guitar after Phone: 859-341-3343 seeing the Beatles’ performances Fax: on the Ed Sullivan Show. Two 859-261-0062 years later, after watching films E-mail: of Andres Segovia masterclasses [email protected] in Santiago de Compostela, he Web site: goeringguitar.com began to study classical guitar. His programs include explorations the U.S. and internationally, solo Number of Performers: 1-3 of the eclectic music of our and with other instrumentalists. Fee Range: $1,000-1,800 century—classical, Latin, jazz, and “Beautiful sounds, elegan, well Available for block booking popular—prompting one critic constructed phrases.” (Corriere to write that “the guitar is for our della Sera, Rome) time but it is also for all time.” Because now is the time to be a (Louisville Courier-Journal) guitarist, his programs feature his Comfortable in many venues, arrangements and improvisations Richard Goering has performed to on the music of Duke Ellington, enthusiastic responses in outreach Luis Bonfa, the Beatles, and Eric settings and on concert series in Clapton. “…rhythmic verve” (American Record Guide) Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 33

Colin Grant-Adams Booking: Julia Schooler 104 Hatchett Court Nationally touring artist Colin Glasgow, KY 42141-2133 Grant-Adams, originally from Phone: 270-651-3823 Oban, Scotland performs songs of E-mail: the British Isles, American/Folk [email protected] and Bluegrass music, adding Web site: elements from his own musical www.colingrant-adams.com experiences of thirty years, to Number of performers: 1 create a refreshingly spirited Fee Range: sound uniquely his own. $500-2,000 Available for block booking “Scotland in Songs and Stories,” Grant-Adams entertains, inspires Grant-Adams has produced and educates his audiences on eight recordings, appeared on a journey to the British Isles. numerous television shows and Drawing from Traditional (Roots), Concerts all over the United Contemporary, and acclaimed States, plus at the acclaimed original songs, Grant-Adams Carnegie Recital Hall in New York brings to light the early influences City. the Scottish emigrants had on Stephen Holden of the New American folk and Bluegrass York Times calls him “a spirited music. spokesman of a vigorous Scots Colin weaves songs with mystical folk tradition that is unabashed in stories, a touch of humor, and its expression of patriotism.” even some unbelievable yodeling, delivered with his powerful tenor voice, and intriguing guitar work. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 34 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Orville Hammond

Whether performing as a solo artist with his Trio or with his chamber jazz group (trio plus string quartet), Orville Hammond is a dynamic performer with a high level of artistry. Hammond’s performances have been well received throughout Kentucky, the Southeastern United States and internationally in Spain, Brazil, the Caribbean, Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival and Fellowship from the National Booking: other noteworthy venues. He Endowment for the Arts and Orville Hammond has appeared with several major Catalina Productions numerous awards for jazz artists, including Tony Bennett, 30 Mentelle Park and classical performances. Lexington, KY 40502-1512 Bill Cosby, Gilberto Gil, Gary His compositions have been Phone: Burton, and Branford Marsalis. 859-420-4044 premiered in Martinique, the Hammond has been a soloist Czech Republic and New York E-mail: with the Louisville and Bohuslav [email protected] City. Martinu Philharmonic orchestras, Web site: www.southernartistry.com and with the Knoxville Symphony. The Orville Hammond Trio Number of performers: 1-7 has been featured on Black A recipient of the Kentucky Arts Fee Range: Entertainment Television, Council’s fellowship for music $1,800-5,500 Jamaica’s Ocho Rios Jazz festival, composition, Hammond has Available for block booking and opened this millennium with also received a Jazz Research a New York debut at Carnegie Hall. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 35

Holland & Corn Booking: Cory Atkinson 1430 Union City Road The Holland & Corn duo explores Richmond, KY 40475 music for two guitars that draws Phone: 859-625-0846 its roots from the folk and popular Fax: music of North, Central, and 859-323-6844 South America. These same E-mail: traditions first brought Murray [email protected] Holland & Duane Corn together Web site: www.hollandandcorn.com during their graduate studies at the University of Cincinnati Number of performers: 2 College-Conservatory of Music. Fee Range: Guanajuato, Mexico. In 2000, $1500 they performed “Ballet Equus et Holland & Corn has performed Available for block booking Homo” with the Kentucky Dance extensively since 1995 and Theatre, a commissioned work in 1999, they were the sole choreographed to selections of representatives of the United their recently released CD, “Song States invited to perform in & Dance.” the international V Festival Cervantes en Todas Partes in Holland & Corn is dedicated to bringing their unique musical style to classical guitar enthusiasts as well as audiences who rarely get to experience the warmth and beauty of the classical guitar. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 36 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Jay Flippin/Gordon Towell Booking: Gordon Towell Jazz Duo 41 Valleyview Road Morehead, KY 40351-9179 Phone: Jay Flippin, piano, and Gordon 606-784-1823 Towell, saxophones, perform Phone2: intimate jazz duets in a relaxed 606-784-8067 atmosphere. Their performances Fax: are comprised from a repertoire 606-783-5447 of standards, jazz standards, E-mail: [email protected] and original songs. All of the “These guys swing and take Web site: selections emphasize strong www.ballparkrecords.com challenges commensurate melodies and interesting Number of performers: 2 with their considerable talent. harmonies. The performers are Fee Range: experienced jazz practitioners as Recommended.”—Dave Nathan, $500-1000 2002, All Music Guide well as teachers who can enlighten Available for block booking your audience about the art form “Both players display comfortable of jazz and the distinct nature control of their instruments and of its performance. They offer of their material. And once again, concerts and educational packages Towell is the almost too serene for any size audience. one, while Flippin plays the extrovert.”—David Franklin, Jazz Times, 2001 Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 37

Lorinda Jones Booking: Lorinda Jones PO Box 123 Lorinda Jones is a nationally Rineyville, KY 40162-0123 recognized performing and Phone: 270-862-9747 recording artist, teacher, and Fax: Board Certified Music Therapist. 270-862-9747 Specializing in Celtic and E-mail: American traditional music, [email protected] performances feature Lorinda Web site: www.lorindajones.com on the Celtic (Irish style) harp, Residing in Central Kentucky Number of performers: 1-3 mountain dulcimer, and tin (near Elizabethtown), Lorinda is whistle, along with a variety of Fee Range: also the artistic director of two $300-1800 other folk instruments. community-based music groups, Available for block booking The Heartland Dulcimer Club and She performs solo, as well as Harps of Life Harp Ensemble. As duo with guitarist, mandolin, a music therapist, Lorinda is the bouzouki player, Bruce Adair, and owner of Music Therapy Service trio with bass, fiddle, mandolin of Central Kentucky, providing player, Kelsie Westfall. Together, contract services for children their music encompass the roots and adults with developmental of American music from the disabilities. ancient harp tunes of Ireland and Scotland to American mountain Lorinda has produced numerous music, bluegrass, ragtime and books and CD recordings, which gospel. are sold throughout the state and across the nation. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 38 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Tim Lake

Tim Lake is a professional musician, singer-songwriter, composer, performer, and teacher. A world-renowned banjoist, he has released nine albums of original songs, including the world-premiere recording, “An American Concerto for 5-String Banjo and Orchestra,” which he performed with the Atlanta- Emory Orchestra. Tim holds Booking: a doctorate in music from the He has received Kentucky’s Al Smith Fellowship and Tim Lake University of Kentucky and was Padraig Records, LLC awarded the 2002 Distinguished Professional Assistance Award PO Box 22164 Lexington, KY 40522-2164 Alumni Award. in Music Composition and recognition from ASCAP’s Phone: 859-268-1718 As a solo artist or with his group Standard and Popular Awards Fax: “The Little Big Band,” Tim has panel each year from 1994 859-268-1718 performed his brand of American through 2003. Rounder Records E-mail: music in international music released Tim’s first recording, [email protected] festivals and concerts all over the and in 1993, Tim started his own Web site: world, including Tokyo, Japan; national distribution company, www.TimLake.com Ambato, Ecuador; Bo and Oslo, Padraig Records, LLC. He has Number of performers: 1-3 Norway; and Graz, Austria. also received acclaim from Fee Range: $500-2,500 respected music critics such as Nat Hentoff. (International: higher range) Available for block booking Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 39

Andrew Leonard Booking: Andrew Leonard 2101 Carpenter Pike Andrew Leonard’s solo guitar Versailles, KY 40383 concerts bring music from all Phone: 859-879-1863 over the world to any stage he is E-mail: performing on. His performances [email protected] often include world music from Web site: Spain, South America and Turkey, www.andrew-leonard.com classical music from the Baroque Number of performers: 1 and Romantic eras, and folk- Fee Range: inspired music from the United Starts at $350 States. Available for block booking

During his performances, Andrew’s entertaining “verbal program notes” educate audiences Andrew is on the faculty of the about the history of the guitar, University of Kentucky’s School classical music and his experiences of Music. He has been called as a musician. Andrew can create “a guitar phenomenon” by the a program to suit a presenter’s Portland Phoenix of Maine and needs. Two of his most popular “critic’s pick” by Lexington, programs are: Hispanic Music Kentucky’s Ace Weekly. His for Guitar and A World of Guitar recordings have received airplay Music. on National Public Radio affiliates throughout the country. He studied classical guitar at Yale University. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 40 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

John S. Moore Booking: John S. Moore General Delivery John S. Moore, a concert Westview, KY 40178-9999 saxophonist, employs humor Phone: 270-257-2917 and a command of his music- Phone2: making to convey his love for 866-JSMoore (576-6673) music to audiences ranging from E-mail: preschoolers to older adults. [email protected] Number of performers: 2 An international performer, Fee Range: John has performed in Australia, A native Kentuckian, educator $300+ Canada, Japan, Puerto Rico, and and parent, John believes in Available for block booking the United States. He received a the abilities of Kentucky youth. Bronze Medal at the First Osaka John’s performances and concerts International Chamber Music include a wide variety of music Competition in Japan, and was a and can include educational semifinalist in the Concert Artists presentations about the saxophone International Competition, New and music. York. He has recorded on several record labels including, Ethos John is willing to work with the Recordings, Mars Hill Records, presenter to tailor programs to fit IUS Recordings, and Music from particular needs. A study guide Maple Mount Records. is available for teachers and/or students. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 41

Cari Norris and Jim McGee

Cari’s music follows the traditions of her grandmother, Lily May Ledford, who led the first all- female string band, the Coon Creek Girls, to fame in early radio. Cari absorbed what has been called, “the lonesome mountain sound” and carries on the musical traditions of her grandmother and Educational Television. She co- Booking: other Kentucky musicians such as produced “Gems”, a collection Cari Norris 1118 Hilliard Avenue Jean Ritchie and Lee Sexton. of Lily May Ledford’s solo Louisville, KY 40204 recordings and recently released Phone: Cari sings ancient ballads and her own solo recording, “In and 502-456-0783 original songs and plays a Out of the Garden.” E-mail: variety of instruments, including [email protected] clawhammer style banjo, guitar Jim and Cari met in 1998, and Number of performers: 1-2 and lap dulcimer. She has often perform traditional music Fee Range: performed and taught widely and their own original music $200-$800 throughout Appalachia and has together. Jim’s years of collecting Available for block booking frequently appeared on Kentucky from master musicians and his own mastery of old-time fiddle, banjo, and blues guitar round out the couple’s repertoire. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 42 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

The Onion Traders

The Onion Traders is a trio of musicians specializing in instrumental Celtic, Appalachian and Old-Time music. Their instruments include the hammered dulcimer, fiddle, banjo and acoustic guitar.

Kyle Meadows’ beautiful and elaborate arrangements on the dulcimer are a focal point of the The performances are informal, Booking: group’s sound. Jack Bunch, whose with tunes ranging from lively, Kyle Meadows 7646 Tippenhauer Rd musical roots reach back to the high-speed reels to peaceful, slow Cold Spring, KY 41076-9056 late 1800s, provides melody and waltzes. Audiences are liable to Phone: harmony with his soulful fiddle hear anything from 300-year-old 859-635-5683 and percussive clawhammer Irish harp melodies to the Beatles. E-mail: [email protected] banjo. The strong and adept guitar The three are longtime friends and Web site: playing of Brian Gilbert (a full- their obvious rapport with each www.kylemeadows.com time blacksmith offstage) adds other extends easily to listeners, Number of Performers: 3 rhythm and bass for the trio. creating an enjoyable and relaxing Fee Range: $350-1,100 atmosphere. Available for block booking Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 43

Pale, Stout and Amber Booking: Robert Tincher 1683 Traveller Road Drawing on the rich folk music Lexington, KY 40504-2001 traditions from Ireland and Phone: 859-373-9457 Scotland, Pale, Stout and Amber Phone2: takes the listener on a journey not 859-253-9639 only across the Atlantic Ocean, E-mail: but also deep into the roots of [email protected] Appalachian and Bluegrass music. Web site: www.PaleStoutAmber.com At the heart of Pale, Stout and Number of performers: 2-3 Amber stands the abiding musical Fee Range: partnership of Art Mize and Duo: $400-500 Trio: $600-750 Robert Tincher. Since 1987, Pale, Stout and Amber is currently Available for block booking they have explored together appearing as a duo or as a trio the Celtic roots of their own with Lorinda Jones on harp and Eastern Kentucky musical whistle. With their wealth of heritage. Masterful fiddling in talent, knowledge and zest for rich conversation with the Irish music, they are an important bouzouki is at the core of their resource and a delightful addition sound, but you can also expect to to any performance venue. hear the guitar, mandolin, viola, pennywhistle, Irish hand drum and compelling vocalizations as well. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 44 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Eddie Pennington Booking: Eddie Pennington 504 Madisonville St Eddie Pennington is considered Princeton, KY 42445 by his peers to be the greatest Phone/Fax: 270-365-5152 living thumb style guitarist. He E-mail: is in constant demand at several [email protected] major gatherings of guitar players Number of performers: 1 throughout the United States and Fee Range: Europe. The thumb-picking style Determined by event and location of playing originated in Western Available for block booking Kentucky, Pennington’s home, Pennington’s performances are and was popularized by singer- marked by his humorous southern songwriter-guitarist Merle Travis. mannerisms and his ability to Pennington learned many of his get the audience tapping their licks from Mose Rager, the man toes to the sounds of a four-piece Travis also credits as his teacher. orchestra originating from a single guitar. In 2001, Eddie Pennington received one of thirteen National Heritage Fellowships, the highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 45

Raison D’Etre

Roberta Schultz, Violet Rae Downey and Vickie Ellis know their “reason for being”: to sing together! In arrangements reminiscent of The Mills Brothers, The Roches, and Joni Mitchell, they wrap their distinctive vocals around songs that range from early pioneer ballads to “Holes,” and “Queen Anne’s Lace.” Booking: sophisticated swing, taking the Even the trio’s choice of cover Roberta Schultz 622 West Johns Hill Rd listener on a sentimental journey songs reflects the importance of Wilder, KY 41076-1419 through the timeless beauty of bearing witness and discovering a Phone: three-part harmony. sense of place. 859-781-3094 Phone2: Social responsibility, the Whether singing a swing tune 859-380-5925 healing power of awareness and completely a capella to showcase Fax: 859-781-3094 (call first) connection, and the importance of their intricate harmonies or supporting their rich vocals E-mail: roots are themes echoing through [email protected] such Raison D’Etre compositions with keyboard, acoustic guitars, Web site: as “Batten Down the Hatches,” and various percussion and folk www.raison3.com instruments, Raison D’Etre offers Number of performers: 3 the audience the “better medicine” Fee Range: of their music. $500-1000 Available for block booking Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 46 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Steve Rector Booking: Steve Rector 130 Joy Hill Rd Born in the coal camp hamlet Greenville, KY 42345 of Beech Creek, Kentucky, Steve Phone: 270-338-4882 Rector learned his first guitar Fax: chords from his dad. His first 270-338-9605 encounter with thumbpicking was E-mail: through a preacher that worked [email protected] with his father in the mines, Mose Number of performers: 2 Rager, Merle Travis’ mentor. Steve Fee Range: had a conversion experience with pop. Having recorded everything $200-700 guitar styles that day and knew he from Eric Clapton’s “Lay Down Available for block booking would wear a thumbpick as long Sally” to the television theme as he was able to play. song from The Waltons, Rector is a key figure in the music of With a robust and joyful style, his region. He holds back-to- Rector likes playing old standards back recognition as National and sometimes ventures in to Thumbpicking Champion. popular songs, including rock and Steve’s music is heard weekly on the popular television show, “Kentucky Afield” (a Kentucky Educational Television production). Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 47

Butch Rice Booking: Phone: 502-583-6805 Soulful acoustic pop has never E-mail: hit quite so close to home. Butch [email protected] Rice writes of what everyone Web site: www.butchrice.com can identify with, love and loss. Number of performers: 1 With every tune the heartstrings Fee Range: resound as if the guitar has been $200-3,000 in the hands of too many, slightly Available for block booking bruised and worn, but stronger in character. With his sincere rich falsetto. Whether performing stage presence and poignant solo or with his band, it is in his lyrics, Butch takes his listeners phrasing and undeniable, striking on a melancholy journey of timbre that his powerhouse vocal remembrance with his sweet yet will leave you shaken and asking for more. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 48 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Jennifer Rose Booking: Rose Ramsay 733 Fairway Drive Jennifer Rose grew up singing Edisto Beach, SC 29438 and dancing with her family Phone: 843-869-0014 and friends in Berea, Kentucky Fax: and traveled throughout the 843-869-0014 United States, Japan, Denmark E-mail: and Italy while a member of the [email protected] Berea College Country Dancers. Number of performers: 1 Her performances are a superb Fee Range: combination of the entertaining Listeners have commented, “I felt $500-1,500 and the educational and include as though she were singing just Available for block booking her beautiful vocals that she to me,” and, “Jennifer’s voice is as accompanies with dulcimer or clear as the mountain air.” guitar. She carries her audiences For over 10 years, Jennifer Rose to her green, Kentucky hills as has been a full-time performer she sings the emotional music with a busy schedule of national of Appalachia, interspersed with and international concert tours, humorous and informative stories teacher development seminars, about the region and its culture. and educational residencies in schools. Jennifer has also recorded five CD’s of her music. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 49

Greg Schaber

Greg Schaber is an award-winning blues singer and guitarist who performs solo renditions of classic and original blues on a variety of vintage instruments - harp guitar, guitar-banjo, mandolin, and National steel guitar. Thirty- eight years of playing—and almost that many years studying blues recordings and blues history— have made Schaber conversant with both the acoustic-based fluid, rag-influenced Piedmont Booking: regional styles that marked the approach of South Carolina’s Rev. Greg Schaber blues in the early 20th century 309 Timberlake Ave Gary Davis and Kentucky’s Bill Erlanger, KY 41018-2227 and the electrified urban styles Williams, lacing it all together Phone: that followed. Thus, he moves with anecdotes and humor. 859-391-6629 easily from the harsh bottleneck Phone2: style of Mississippi musicians like Acoustic styles form the core of 859-635-2041 (msg. only) Son House to the smoother Texas Schaber’s performances, but if E-mail: [email protected] style of Lightnin’ Hopkins and the requested, he seasons the mix with funky, low-volume electric guitar Number of performers: 1 recalling the styles of Mississippi Fee Range: $300-550 Fred McDowell, Muddy Waters and Elmore James. Available for block booking Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 50 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Sexton and Slone

Lee Sexton is recognized as a master musician and one of the region’s finest banjo performers. In 2001, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kentucky Arts Council. With a featured role in the film Coal Miner’s Daughter and a recent appearance at the Slone’s musical heritage dates Booking: Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival, to the early 1800s, when two Ray Slone 535 Old Garner Road Lee has established himself as one of his great, great grandfathers Hindman, Kentucky 41822 of the foremost tradition bearers were accomplished fiddlers. Phone: of Kentucky’s mountain music Ray learned banjo from his 606-785-5694 heritage. father and fiddle from his uncle E-mail: and grandfather. Students of [email protected] Recently, Lee has toured southeastern Kentucky enjoy Number of musicians: 1 or 3 extensively, participating seeing Ray’s display of stringed Fee: $300 - $1600 in festivals and workshops instruments and hearing him Available for block booking and performing with multi- play each one. He has been a instrumentalist Ray Slone of master artist within the Kentucky Hindman, KY. Apprenticeship program and appeared at the Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival in the summer of 2003. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 51

Hong Shao Booking: Hong Shao 2636 Fireside Circle Hong Shao is a professionally Lexington, KY 40513-1466 trained performer of the Pipa, a Phone: 859-223-8058 traditional Chinese instrument. Phone2: The Pipa is a four-stringed, pear- 859-433-7665 shaped lute, introduced to China E-mail: from Central Asia during the Han [email protected] Dynasty (202 B.C. - 220 A.D.). Number of performers: 1 It is considered one of the most Fee Range: $300 (plus mileage) intricate Chinese instruments, and of Kentucky Singletary Center for it requires sophisticated skills to the Arts, University of Kentucky Available for block booking perform. Asian Center, and University of Louisville School of Music, among Ms. Shao has been offering Pipa others. Ms. Shao’s typical Pipa concerts to Kentucky audiences concert offering includes 12 to 15 since 1997 and has performed Pipa solo works of various styles. numerous times at the University In addition, she also offers shorter, flexible performances of selected pieces. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 52 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Mike Tracy

A veritable “Ambassador of Jazz,” Michael Tracy is one of America’s foremost jazz educators and ensemble performers and for over twenty-five years has performed throughout the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Scotland, and Wales. Jerry Coker, and Pat La Barbera Booking: for concerts and club appearances Michele Wogaman His performing career has placed New Performing Arts around the world. A two-time him on stage as a soloist with National Endowment for the Phone: such stars as Ella Fitzgerald, 800-451-0032 Arts award winner, Tracy is also Buddy Rich, J.J. Johnson, Johnny E-mail: Director of Jazz Studies at the [email protected] Mathis, the Four Tops and the University of Louisville School of Temptations. He has also teamed Number of performers: 1-4 Music. Fee Range: up with jazz greats like David $2,400-5,000 Liebman, Rufus Reid, Bobby Shaw, With performances at the Available for block booking Kentucky Governor’s Mansion to broadcasts on PBS and National Public Radio, Mike Tracy and Friends will provide your patrons a front-row seat for the best in America’s classical music—jazz! Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 53

Troubadours of Divine Bliss

Peppered with original and cover tunes, salted with the flavors of Kentucky to Louisiana, the Troubadours of Divine Bliss provide a variety program that will delight any audience. Described as eclectic folk, this spicy duo of Renee Ananda and Aim Me Smiley have sampled the life of true troubadours, traveling the wondrous expanse of America and Europe, and have seasoned established regular performances Booking: their performance accordingly. in and around Louisville and Renee Ananda & Aim Me Smiley 7623 Colson Drive To see the Troubadours of Divine often share their music at schools, Louisville, KY 40220 Bliss is to truly sample a wide church services, festivals, and Phone: variety of tastes, cultures and WFPK’s Live Lunch radio 502-495-2355 timely issues. The Troubadour program. Phone2: 502-648-8428 experience can happen in small The Troubadours of Divine Bliss intimate settings, festivals or E-mail: stimulate the creativity of the [email protected] concert programming. They have mind. Let Aim Me and Renee Number of performers: 2-4 share their uplifting and musical Fee Range: $300-1000 messages with your audience. Available for block booking Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 54 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Carla Van Hoose Booking: Carla Van Hoose 110 Louisiana Ave Singer/songwriter Carla Van Lexington, KY 40502 Hoose creates a joyful presence Phone: 859-266-9203 playing Americana music. Fax: Her performance entertains, 859-266-7410 humors and warms your heart, E-mail: telling stories in song about life, [email protected] characters, love and losses. There Web site: www.carlasings.com is a blend of folk, blues, bluegrass and a little old rock and roll. Number of Performers: 1-4 Audiences relate to the tales of Fee Range: $200-2,500 life’s human condition in the old Available for block booking favorites and new selections. restaurants, in campgrounds, at special events, fundraisers, on Carla has performed across radio and television. She goes on Kentucky, in Missouri, Colorado, stage solo or with On Time, her West Virginia and Canada. She seasoned back up musicians. has been heard on nationally syndicated radio shows, NPR Her CDs, Old Times and stations, and Kentucky television. Memories and Kentucky Home She loves performing at churches, have received airplay in six states. festivals, parties, coffee houses, Whether singing on a festival’s large stage or a small group in a cozy setting, Carla brings a fun approach to life and a song to brighten your spirit. Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 55

Irina Voro Booking: Irina Voro 2028 Dellwood Dr True connoisseurs can explain Lexington, KY 40503-2414 what makes her a world-class Phone: 859-552-8170 pianist; all others simply feel Phone2: it. Every concert of this award- 859-257-8170 winning performer and teacher Fax: (Dr. Voro is a full-time professor 859-257-9576 at UK) becomes a revelation of E-mail: [email protected] something new, touching and wonderful, something that we all Number of performers: 1 are subconsciously looking for. Fee Range: $500-5,000 Irina Voro believes that a Available for block booking classical piano recital must be theatrical show Irina’s first shares understandable and be enjoyed her own poetic visions of the pieces even by the people for whom she’s about to play, then the music the word “classical” normally begins… It’s all blended together means songs by Steven Foster with tastefully selected visual or the Beatles. So, aside from and sound effects. From the start bedazzling the audiences the “L’Excital” was designed to attract world over with her “conventional” new audiences to classical concerts, piano performances, several and it works. Critics and audiences years ago this Russian-Canadian alike cannot hide their fascination pianist came up with the idea of with both the quality of Voro’s “L’Excital for Piano, Narrative artistic vision and the quality of her and Imagination.” In this semi- playing.

Read their opinions at www.uky. edu/FineArts/Music/faculty/ irina_voro.html Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 56 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Randy Wilson Booking: Randy Wilson 291 Old Hwy 66 Randy Wilson is a native of the Big Creek, KY 40914 mountains of eastern Kentucky Phone: 606-598-6904 and continues the storytelling and E-mail: music traditions of this culturally [email protected] rich region. Grandson of one of Number of Performers: 1 the last frontier families, Wilson Fee Range: brings those values alive in song, $400-2,000 story and dance. His performances often take him out of the region and he has performed extensively in music and storytelling festivals such as the Great American Dulcimer Festival, The University Wilson has also worked as style banjo, guitar, dulcimer and of Rome in Italy, Kentucky Folklife an artist-in-residence in the autoharp. Publications include Festival, as well as the Smithsonian schools for the past 20 years several CD’s of original and Appalachian Festival on the mall in with an “almost magical ability traditional songs, as well as a Washington, DC. to get kids involved,” states Mike poetry production with Kentucky Mullins, Hindman Settlement poet laureate, James Still. As Still School Director. Collaborations pointed out, it’s “hard nowadays to with students have included find a genuine Appalachian singer books, recordings, videos, herbal of superior talent untouched, remedies, folk dances, and old untainted, and unspoiled by mountain recipes. media, stage and screen. Randy Wilson is the one.” Instruments used range from the Celtic drum, penny whistle and concertina to the mountain Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 57

Zoe Speaks

Although many think Zoe Speaks is a person, it is actually a musical group formed by East Kentucky musicians Mitch Barrett and Carla Gover, in whose music old-time sounds meet new-age sensibilities. They perform “contemporary Appalachian music”, mixing traditional ballads with their own roots-infused originals. They accompany themselves on guitar, Booking: clawhammer banjo, and lap New Folk Award, Merlefest’s Chris Austin Songwriting Loyd Artists dulcimer, and most often perform 133 Forest Hill Drive as a trio with bassist Owen Contest (twice!), Paul Stukey’s Asheville, NC 28803 Reynolds. Programs are available Music To Life Contest, and were Phone: 800-476-6240 for adult and general audiences, selected for official showcases at The International Folk Alliance Fax: and family shows can also feature 828-254-6985 storytelling and clogging. Conference, Performing Arts Exchange Conference, the IBMA E-mail: [email protected] Original songs feature strongly Conference, and the Association Web site: in a set by Zoe Speaks, and their of Performing Arts Presenters www.zoespeaks.com subject matter and presentation Conference. Number of performers: 2-4 is often thought-provoking, Fee Range: humorous, and inspiring. They “Contains many of the best $650-2,500 elements of traditional have received several awards and Available for block booking honors, including the Kerrville Appalachian music, including purity, intensity, integrity, and vivid imagery.” —Bluegrass Unlimited Music: Solos, Duos, and Trios 58 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 59

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The Betweeners

The Betweeners are an acoustic band from Kentucky playing a unique hybrid of American roots music. Their instrumentation and soulful delivery seduce the listener while offering intelligent lyrics and tasty arrangements. The Betweeners’ debut album has been compared to the efforts of singing of Eddy Green. Booking: legendary acts such as The Band, The Betweeners are equally Stephen Couch 2821 Englewood Avenue Fairport convention, and Old and comfortable playing sultry blues, Louisville, KY 40220 In the Way. a Latin-flavored groove or a Phone: red-hot bluegrass instrumental. 502-459-6033 The band is centered around lead Their songs are totally infectious, E-mail: singer and multi-instrumentalist sometimes hilarious, and [email protected] Stephen Couch, but is superbly absolutely impossible to ignore. Web site: www.thebetweeners.com augmented by the bass work of Their performances are always Number of Performers: 3-5 Owen Reynolds and harmony filled with humor and a musical Fee Range: showmanship that is bound to $600-1,500 leave the audience breathless from Available for block booking the versatility and virtuosity of these Kentucky musicians. Music: Ensembles Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 61

Ceruti Chamber Players

The Ceruti Chamber Players are widely recognized for their programs incorporating both great chamber music of past eras and compositions of living composers. The critically acclaimed ensemble has performed several times at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, and was one of two United performances have aired on Booking: States ensembles selected to Kentucky Educational Television, Nancy Harris, Harris Entertainment participate in the First Osaka 15004 Brush Run Road WSCI-FM (South Carolina Public (Japan) International Chamber Louisville, KY 40299 Radio), WFPK-FM and WUOL- Music Festa. Other performances Phone: FM in Louisville, Kentucky. The 502-267-0148 include Musikfest Bethlehem Ceruti Chamber Players regularly E-mail: in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; present concerts in varying [email protected] the Indiana State University formats of ensemble, duo, or solo Web site: Contemporary Music Festival www.harrisentertainment.com performances, as well as master in Terre Haute, Indiana; and Number of Performers: 5-9 classes on contemporary chamber several appearances in the Fee Range: music. $1,500+ depending on size of ensemble and Louisville Orchestra’s New location of performance Dimensions series. The ensemble’s The ensemble offers a variety of Available for block booking programs, which can be adapted to meet presenters’ needs. Educational programs and study guides are also available. Music: Ensembles 62 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Gospelway Booking: Elaine Tillery Bluegrass Singers 11988 Cadillac Drive Independence, KY 41051-8614 Phone: The Gospelway Bluegrass Singers 859-356-3967 is a traditional Bluegrass group E-mail: that has been performing together [email protected] for over 20 years. Each member Number of performers: 6 of the group is an accomplished Fee Range: musician and lead vocalist—a $500-1,000 unique feature amongst bluegrass Available for block booking bands.. music and a desire to provide pure harmony. The group also does The Gospelway Bluegrass Arts-in-Education programs for Singers have traveled extensively schools under the “Taylor Made throughout Kentucky, Ohio, Bluegrass” name. Indiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia and regularly perform This bluegrass group consists of at festivals, community functions six members: Bill Baker, banjo and and churches. This band performs vocals; Nathan Hill, rhythm guitar with a true dedication to Bluegrass and vocals; John Little, resonator guitar (dobro) and vocals; Tom Taylor, fiddle, mandolin, and vocals; Wendell Tillery, guitar and vocals; and Elaine Tillery, bass guitar. Music: Ensembles Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 63

Arthur Hatfield Booking: Beverly Hatfield and Buck Creek 791 Burton Ridge Road Glasgow, KY 42141 Phone: Like all the members of his band, 270-646-5219 Glasgow’s Arthur Hatfield began E-mail: learning and honing his skills [email protected] performing bluegrass music at an Web site: early age. Known for their tight www.buckcreek.cjb.net vocal harmonies, each member Number of performers: 2 to 4, depending on style of music. of Buck Creek brings their own Fee Range: individual talents and years of $500 - 1,500 depending on travel With four recordings completed, experience to this band formed in Available for block booking 1994. The band consists of Arthur including one gospel collection, Hatfield on banjo, Gary Minor on Arthur Hatfield and Buck Creek guitar, Ricky Burch on mandolin/ continue to gain praise from fans fiddle and Johnny Day on bass. across the Commonwealth and beyond. Music: Ensembles 64 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

The Hays Brothers

The Hays Brothers is a Warren County Bluegrass group that has been performing for over 25 years. Brothers Gary and Jeff Hays descend from three generations of singers and musicians where music was always in the Hays’ house. Not only do the brothers play Booking: Gary started playing guitar at age and sing, they entertain their Gary Hays 10, and Jeff began playing banjo at PO Box 183 audiences. Included in their Bowling Green, KY 42102-0183 the tender age of 12. The band was performance is driving banjo Phone: organized in 1975, and Jeff’s wife, playing from Jeff, the 1998 270-563-4589 Lisa, joined in 1988. Together the Kentucky State Banjo Champion. E-mail: three deliver “family harmony” Vocals are delivered in the “one [email protected] with a closeness that comes from mike” style with good-natured fun Web site: www.haysbrothers.com years of singing together. among the band. Their repertoire Number of performers: 2-5 mixes bluegrass and older country Fee Range: music with a good dose of older $500-$1000 and sometimes forgotten material. Available for block booking The Hays Brothers perform on guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bass. Music: Ensembles Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 65

Hog Operation

The Hog Operation is an ensemble that is steeped in Kentucky’s rich music tradition. This group gives high-energy performances created by the cross-pollination of many American roots music styles including Blues, Bluegrass, Celtic, Country and Rock. Hog Operation This Louisville-based band has Booking: plays a style of supercharged released two CDs, New Litter Mike Schroeder 2643 Park Drive Bluegrass music using traditional featuring all original music Louisville, KY 40205 instrumentation—guitar, banjo, and Nice Ham Bites covering a Phone: bass, fiddle and mandolin that variety of Bluegrass and Country 502-451-0045 accompany smooth harmony standards. The Hog Operation is E-mail: [email protected] vocals. The players are Steve available for touring and performs in venues large and small. Also, Web site: Cooley, John Hawkins, Larry www.hogoperation.com the band can provide a complete Raley, and Mike Schroeder. Number of Performers: 3-4 sound system. Visit our Web site Fee Range: at www.hogoperation.com for $1,500-2,000 additional information, or contact Available for block booking Mike Schroeder at 502-451-0045. The Hog Operation is a musical experience you won’t forget! Music: Ensembles 66 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

John Christopher Knight and Family

“Original music, no electricity and farming with horse equipment earned the Knights international acclaim on CNN, The Today Show, NPR. Charting 44 on radio charts, seventh on Roots Music Reports…their straight-from- life music, defined a little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n’ roll— with a dash of blues, bluegrass and folk—continues to elude “A musical phenomenon…sell out Booking: definitive genre, while fascinating show…Knight and his children John Christopher Knight audiences….” PO Box 711 charmed the room with tight —Courier Journal Scottsville, KY 42164 musicianship…. Wonderfully Phone: “They did a show for me last unaffected original and diverse 270-618-5533 summer that just blew me away.” material, interspersed with E-mail: [email protected] —Laura Starling, WDEN (GA Radio) humorous storytelling and his children swapping instruments Web site: www.johnchristopherknight.com “Unique style, powerful lyrics… like a Chinese fire drill.” humorous stories…unusually —Bamboo Room, FL touching experience….” —Renaissance Center, TN “…packed-house concert…pure… full of talent…. Everyone should see John Christopher Knight and Family.” —Georgia Music Hall of Fame Music: Ensembles Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 67

Juggernaut Jug Band Booking: Steve Drury 2821 Hoock Ave Some thirty years ago, a group Louisville, KY 40205-2913 of friends became fascinated Phone: 502-458-7762 by jug band music. That group Fax: became the Juggernaut Jug Band, 502-458-7725 dedicated to preserving the music E-mail: and the spirit of the original [email protected] Louisville Jug bands of the early Number of performers: 4-5 1900s. Just as New Orleans is the Fee Range: home of Dixieland Jazz, Louisville invited to have as much fun as $950-2,500 is the home of jug band music, a the band. Don’t let their antics Available for block booking blend of jazz and blues performed fool you, though! Their exuberant on stringed and other standard music is the result of skillful instruments, with one strange arrangements and unique vocal twist—the sound of a jug. harmonies.

With each performance of the They have played almost every Juggernaut Jug Band, the music type of venue imaginable and and humor of the jug bands produced four CDs and a video. continue, and the audience is Recent performances include the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, Las Vegas Jazz Festival, International Washboard Festival, and the Kent State Folk Festival. Music: Ensembles 68 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Kentucky Wild Horse

The band, Kentucky Wild Horse, is named after an old Eastern Kentucky fiddle tune. Made up of fine individual musicians, this band plays and sings traditional old-time, bluegrass, and swing music learned directly from earlier generations of Kentucky they learned from, and the Booking: stories associated with them. John Harrod musicians, both professional and 1860 Kays Branch Rd amateur. Members of the group They can offer full performances Owenton, KY 40359-8601 have been playing this music all as well as teaching workshops Phone: their lives. on all the instruments used in 502-484-2044 their performances—fiddle, Phone2: 502-875-8655 All members of the band can banjo (bluegrass, clawhammer, E-mail: speak with authority to audiences two-finger, and tenor), guitar, [email protected] about the historical background mandolin, and bass. The band Number of performers: 6 of the music, the performers is experienced in playing (and Fee Range: $360-1,500 calling) for traditional country Available for block booking dancing (big sets, squares, and contras). They also offer programs of songs and dance music from the Civil War era. Music: Ensembles Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 69

Homer Ledford and the Cabin Creek Band

Homer Ledford and the Cabin Creek Band is a five-piece traditional bluegrass and old-time music band. All of the members grew up surrounded by the style of music that they now play and perform many old traditional they perform. By playing well and Booking: songs as well as their own original having fun with their music, the Homer C Ledford compositions. 125 Sunset Heights band has had wonderful success Winchester, KY 40391 The band’s five members perform with their audiences. Phone: on the autoharp, musical saw, 606-744-3974 Together for eighteen years, dulcimer, “fiddlefone,” two fiddles E-mail: the band has performed [email protected] (twin fiddles), banjo, guitar, across Kentucky, the United bass, and mandolin. With all of Number of performers: 5 States and internationally in these instruments, they are well Fee Range: Ireland and Japan. They enjoy $500-1500 equipped to bring new life to the playing for schools, festivals, (fees negotiable for solo performance) old time bluegrass music that organizations, and various Available for block booking performing arts venues. The multi-instrumentalist, Ledford, is also widely known for his solo performances at schools, colleges, universities, and festivals. Music: Ensembles 70 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

No Tools Loaned

No Tools Loaned is an award- winning bluegrass band originating in Frankfort, Kentucky. Although this band formed in the year 2000, each of its members is a seasoned veteran and has played at venues ranging from concert halls and festivals to churches and community events. They like to describe their music Booking: as third generation bluegrass, Wesley Atha Each band member’s unique style 307 Sycamore Court which makes their sound quite Frankfort, KY 40601-9741 contributes to the overall sound unique. Audiences will be Phone: to produce a performance that intrigued by the fun that this 502-227-1022 you will not forget. Although the band has while producing great Phone2: band performs much of their own instrumentals and vocal harmony 502-564-1404 material, they also perform the that will delight any taste. E-mail: [email protected] more traditional bluegrass music Instruments played by the band Web site: that they all grew up listening to at www.notoolsloaned.com live performances. include banjo, mandolin, guitar, Number of performers: 4 dobro and bass fiddle; vocal Fee Range: harmony includes lead, baritone, $500-1,000 tenor and bass vocal. Available for block booking Music: Ensembles Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 71

Osland Saxophone Quartet

The Osland Saxophone Quartet (OSQ) is based at the University of Kentucky and tours nationwide, performing jazz and classical programs and giving master classes. The OSQ is unique in that its repertoire spans both the jazz and classical genres. The Osland Sax Quartet’s include Miles Osland, Lisa Booking: performance experience is Parent-Osland (tenor), who Cory Atkinson 1430 Union City Road extensive and ranges from also teaches at the University Richmond, KY 40475 serving as Quartet-in-Residence of Kentucky, Larry Nelson Phone: at the famed Boston University’s (baritone) head of the saxophone 859-625-0846 Tanglewood Institute to opening department at Eastern Kentucky Fax: 360-323-6844 the Master Musicians Festival in University, and Paul Haar (alto), professor of saxophone and E-mail: Somerset, KY. Quartet members [email protected] jazz studies at the University Number of performers: 4 of Tennessee-Knoxville. All Fee Range: members are Selmer artists and $1500-3500 clinicians. Available for block booking Music: Ensembles 72 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

James Price, Rick Oldfield and Kentucky Reign

This traditional bluegrass band features renowned fiddler James Price and extraordinary vocalist Rick Oldfield. This band brings back memories of old times radio shows and traditional bluegrass music. James Price has performed together since an early age. The Booking: with Marty Stuart, Little Jimmy show is full of energy and features April Brumfield Dickens, the Goins Brothers 1430 Union City Road the many voices of Rick Oldfield, Richmond, KY 40475 and was with Ralph Stanley for including his imitations of Johnny Phone: eight years, among others. Other Cash and Willie Nelson. After 859-625-0846 members of the band include playing individually for many E-mail: brothers Donnie and Billy Tribble years, the group came together to [email protected] on bass and banjo, respectively. form Kentucky Reign with James Web site: www.brumfieldassociates.com Both are from Richmond, and Rick at the helm. It’s a great Number of performers: 5-6 Kentucky, and have performed combination that has landed Fee Range: the group many coveted spots $2,000-3,500 at Bluegrass festivals around the Available for block booking state. Music: Ensembles Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 73

Rabbit Hash String Band

The twin fiddles of Tom Taylor and Warren Waldron drive the old-time sound of the Rabbit Hash String Band. Russ and Barb Childers add syncopation with the five-string and banjo-uke and Judy “Riley” Waldron lays down the bass line with her guitar. Tom Taylor began playing fiddle over Based in Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, Booking: 60 years ago in Adair County, this band features dance tunes Tom Taylor 10231 East Bend Rd. Kentucky. He and the other and old songs, interspersed Union, KY 41091 members of the band have played with a story or two. Inspired by Phone: for many a square dance over the fiddle bands from the early days 859-586-7466 years and still do hoedown square of recording, such as the Skillet E-mail: [email protected] dances for both beginning and Lickers, the Rabbit Hash String Number of performers: 3-5 experienced dancers Band has entertained audiences for over ten years … at county Fee Range: $500 - $1500 fairs, traditional music concerts, Available for block booking schools, churches and festivals. They are sure to lift your spirits and set your toe a-tappin’. Music: Ensembles 74 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Reel World String Band

Since 1977, the Reel World String Band from Lexington, Kentucky, has toured and performed. Whether it’s a house concert or a performance at NYC’s Lincoln Center, Reel World enjoys sharing their own blend of American roots-based music. The five members Karen Jones performances with humor and Booking: (fiddle), Sue Massek (banjo), grit. The songwriting of Bev and Karen Jones PO Box 1972 Bev Futrell (guitar/harmonica), Sue contributes significantly Lexington, KY 40588 Sharon Ruble (bass), and Elise to the band’s political activism Phone: Melrood (piano), share a love for with such songs as “Appalachian 859-259-1002 Appalachian traditional music, Wind” and “Little Omie Done E-mail: [email protected] tight harmony singing and honky- Got Wise.” Reel World has many fine recordings from “Mountain Web site: tonk blues. They fire up audiences reelworldstringband.com Reflections” 1981-84 (the vinyl with fiddle tunes and spice their Number of Performers: 5 years) to “The Coast is Clear.” In Fee Range: Kentucky Women: Two Centuries $1,000-3,000 of Indomitable Spirit and Vision, Available for block booking 1997, Reel World finds their place in the rich musical heritage of Kentucky. Music: Ensembles Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 75

Reynolds Family Band Booking: Wayne Reynolds 2896 Locust Grove Rd For nearly twenty years, the Elizabethtown, KY 42701 Reynolds Family Band has been Phone: 270-737-5262 singing and playing bluegrass E-mail: and gospel music at festivals, [email protected] concert halls, churches and other Number of performers: 5 venues throughout Kentucky and Fee Range: surrounding states. $500-$900 Available for block booking Though heavily influenced by the The band includes Wayne traditional bluegrass styles of Bill Reynolds, mandolin, lead vocals; Monroe, The Stanley Brothers Lillian Reynolds (mother), and Flatt & Scruggs, this unique vocals; Sue Poteet (sister), band also interweaves a bit of vocals, upright bass; Gordon Grand Ole Opry style country Poteet (brother-in-law), vocals, and a touch of the blues into their guitar; and Joe Larson, vocals, music. Add their two female band banjo and harmonica. They have members in a genre dominated by recorded four projects, received male performers and you’ve got considerable radio and TV airplay one original family band. Their over the years, and have had the repertoire includes traditional privilege of performing with most bluegrass tunes, gospel hymns and of the legends of bluegrass music. original compositions. Music: Ensembles 76 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

River City Drum Corps

River City Drum Corp is one of Kentucky’s premiere youth organizations. Founded in 1990 by Ed “Nardie” White, the River City Drum Corp is a non-traditional arts and education concept which molds traditional African drumming, percussive music training, performance and cultural workshops that teach participants Booking: education into one focus. how to play the drums as well as Ed White 3308 Chauncey Ave build personal drums, an ideal Louisville, KY 40211 The River City Drum Corp is activity for organizations, schools Phone: a group of talented, creative, and communities. The River 502-772-7660 young people who represent the City Drum Corp can help your Fax: spirit of diversity in Kentucky. community create its own Drum 502-361-7105 Members of the Drum Corp assist Corp and performance unit. Number of performers: varies in the facilitation of hands-on The River City Drum Corp has Fee: $500-15,000 traveled throughout the state of Available for block booking Kentucky and the United States. Let the River City Drum Corp “Spirit of the Drum” captivate your audience. Music: Ensembles Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 77

Saxton’s Cornet Band

Saxton’s Cornet Band is named for an ensemble that performed in Kentucky for over sixty years, from before the Civil War period into the early twentieth century. Organized in 1989, Saxton’s Cornet Band keeps alive the spirit and high standards of the original ensemble. steamboats Delta Queen and Booking: Belle of Louisville, in historic Cory Atkinson In 2001, Saxton’s Cornet Band 1430 Union City Road opera houses from Keokuk, Richmond, KY 40475 performed on Washington’s Iowa to Chillicothe, Ohio, and Phone: Pennsylvania Avenue and in in bandstands from New York 859-625-0846 2000, performed at the Kentucky to Indiana to Massachusetts. A Fax: Ball for the inauguration of co-host band of the National 360-323-6844 President George W. Bush. It Civil War Band Festival at E-mail: [email protected] plays often at National Park Campbellsville, Kentucky, Saxton’s Number of performers: 8-15 Service sites, including Gettysburg Cornet Band appears regularly at National Military Park. The Fee Range: the great American Brass Band $2,500-6,000 band has played aboard the Festival in Danville, Kentucky. Available for block booking Film credits include the Turner films, Gettysburg and The Day Lincoln Was Shot. Music: Ensembles 78 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Southern Horizon

Based in southeast Kentucky, Southern Horizon blends rich vocal talents and acoustic instrumental artistry to deliver the finest in Bluegrass/Southern Gospel music. “The band has a fresh and exuberant sound and really made these sacred tunes come alive,” says Dave Higgs with Bluegrass Breakdown of Nashville Public Radio. Group members embrace spirited, high energy, Booking: bluegrass gospel music has led Greg Combs include Greg Combs, sisters Robin PO Box 212 Barrett and Jennifer Nantz, Brian the group to perform throughout Annville, KY 40402-0212 Davidson, and Kyle Perkins. southeastern Kentucky. If you love Phone: Church events, bluegrass festivals, the sound of the banjo, mandolin, 606-364-2589 and other community events that guitar and acoustic bass, blended E-mail: with great harmony, you will [email protected] certainly enjoy Southern Horizon. Web site: www.southernhorizon.org Number of Performers: 5 Fee Range: $500-2,500 Available for block booking Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 79

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Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra

What do Beethoven, the Beatles, and Broadway all have in common with Bowling Green? Their great music is brought to life through the Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra. Some of the Midwest’s best professional musicians have joined forces to help create this top-quality orchestra, whose popularity has grown by leaps and bounds in just three years. or Beatles classics will also find Booking: The orchestra pleases young and concerts to suit their tastes. At Jeffrey A Reed old alike through their innovative PO Box 1408 times the orchestra teams up Bowling Green, KY 42102-1408 programming. Classical music with world-class soloists, or the Phone: enthusiasts will delight in favorite Bowling Green Chamber Singers. 270-846-2426 works of Handel, Beethoven, or Ensembles of various members Phone2: Mozart, while those with a bent of the orchestra are also available 270-779-9305 toward Broadway show tunes for recitals and presentations in Fax: 270-846-7944 smaller venues. E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.bgchamberorchestra.org Number of performers: 4-65 Fee Range: $1,000-10,000 Available for block booking Music: Orchestra Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 81

Kentucky Symphony Orchestra

The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra was founded by its Music Director, James Cassidy, in 1992 with a mission to make symphonic music attractive, collaborated with many non- Booking: accessible and affordable to profits, universities, and arts and James Cassidy the residents of the second- PO Box 72810 entertainment entities, as well as Newport, KY 41072 largest population base in the the Kentucky National Guard, the Phone: Commonwealth and surrounding Cincinnati Observatory and the 859-431-6216 Tri-state communities. Over National Underground Railroad Fax: the years, through innovative Freedom Center to make its 859-431-3097 programming, the KSO has concert presentations people- E-mail: [email protected] friendly, relevant and memorable. Web site: www.kyso.org Number of performers: 5-85 Fee Range: KSO or Boogie Band: $6,000-15,000 Newport Ragtime Band or Flood Wall Jazz Quintet: $2,000-3,500 Available for block booking Music: Orchestra 82 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra

The Lexington Philharmonic, in its 44th season, presents over 150 concerts and educational programs annually. Under the leadership of Music Director George Zack, the Philharmonic’s programs reach everyone’s musical Booking: tastes. in Lexington’s neighborhoods and surrounding communities. They Julie Gray 161 North Mill Street MasterClassics subscription also offer extensive educational Lexington, KY 40507 series features world-renowned programs, reaching over 25,000 Phone: soloists; POPS! the series offers children a year through Discovery 859-233-4226 casual nights of popular music; Concerts, Ensembles in Schools, Phone2: Family Series is a fun way to Instrument Petting Zoos, and 888-494-4226 introduce children (and grown- Peanut Butter & Jelly Concerts. Fax: 859-233-7896 ups) to classical music; Coffee The Lexington Philharmonic can E-mail: Concert Series features chamber [email protected] tailor a program to meet your music by Lexington Philharmonic Web site: Ensembles; and their newest needs, whether it is an intimate www.lexphil.org offerings, SPOKES and HUB are ensemble performance, an Number of performers: 3-80 interactive educational concert, chamber music concerts presented Fee Range: or a pops concert under the stars. $1,500-28,000 There is something for everyone! Available for block booking Music: Orchestra Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 83

Louisville Orchestra

The Louisville Orchestra, now in its 69th season, is the only full-time Orchestra in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Orchestra is headed by artistic advisor Raymond Leptard, Principal Pops Conductor Bob Bernhardt and Associate Conductor Robert Franz. The The 71-member Orchestra is Booking: Orchestra performs over 100 available for touring dates. A Robert McGrath 300 West Main St, Suite 100 concerts each season at more than typical touring program might Louisville, KY 40202 40 venues around the city and feature Mozart and Beethoven Phone: state and in classrooms, reaching alongside Broadway tunes, 502-585-9433 over 220,000 patrons and almost beloved standards, patriotic Fax: 502-589-7870 68,000 students. The Louisville pieces and selections from popular movie music. However, E-mail: Orchestra’s performances feature [email protected] the Orchestra can work with arts a wide range of orchestral music, Web site: including traditional repertoire, presenters to create specialized www.louisvilleorchestra.org pops selections, holiday music, programs to suit a particular Number of performers: 71 swing, family entertainment, and venue. Fee Range: the best of contemporary music. $15,000-25,000 Available for block booking Music: Orchestra 84 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 85

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Mary Hamilton Booking: Mary Hamilton 65 Springhill Road For over twenty years Kentucky Frankfort, KY 40601-9211 native Mary Hamilton has sparked Phone: 502-223-4523 the imaginations of story listeners Phone2: from Florida to Alaska, including 800-438-4390 three featured performances Fax: at the National Storytelling 502-223-4523 Festival—1987, 1992, 1999. With E-mail: [email protected] her straightforward “just talking” For children under eight—“All Web site: style, Mary creates performances www.maryhamilton.info for varied audiences and venues. Together Now”—Children chant Number of performers: 1 along, sing along, and join in the For adults—“Children of Richard, Fee Range: telling. $300-2,000 Rhoda, and God”—In 1969 two Available for block booking Kentucky teens, one Catholic, the For all ages—“Kentucky other Baptist, date. Mary relates Wonders”—Celebrate Kentucky’s the inevitable cultural clash with narrative traditions with folktales, heart and humor and, “Sailing tall tales, and true stories selected the Flying Ship”, a story-filled, for your audience—adults, inspiring conference opener. children, or families. For more program examples, story descriptions, and Mary’s biography and resume, visit her Web site: www.maryhamilton.info Storytelling and Theatre Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 87

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre

Enhance your diversity programming with Juneteenth Legacy Theatre, Kentucky’s only professional African American theatre company!

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre’s BOLD JOURNEYS tour features Cabaret Theatre musicals and Juneteenth Legacy Theatre offers Booking: Readers Theatre bio dramas about a diverse repertoire of new Lorna Littleway outstanding African-Americans. PO Box 3463 and original works including: Louisville, KY 40201-3463 BOLD JOURNEYS’ plays Juneteenth Cotton Club Revue, Phone: celebrate rural roots, personal The Last Dust Track, Cotton to 502-636-4200 excellence, and the power of the Clouds, and Mother of Civil Fax: education and are educational, Rights. Additional works are 502-561-2149 family entertainment. developed every season. E-mail: [email protected] Catch the spirit! Juneteenth Legacy Number of performers: 1-5 Theatre. Enriching & Empowering! Fee Range: $1,000-3,000 Available for block booking Storytelling and Theatre 88 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Kentuckiana African American Arts Series

Enjoy! Experience! Educate! The Kentuckiana African American Arts Series presents theatrical productions for youth and adult audiences. Drama, dance, drumming, storytelling and music await your audiences. Educational opportunities are offered through the special “post-show audience The arts education performances Booking: dialogue.” For more than a will delight audiences with Nana Yaa Asantewaa (“Mama Yaa”) decade, the artists have performed 2513 Bolling Avenue personal narratives, heritage, Louisville, KY 40210-1915 collectively and individually at history and West African culture. Phone: conferences, theaters, universities Make it a “family affair” for the 502-775-8824 and special events, as well as for community or arrange for student Phone2: African Heritage and History matinees. 502-585-9525 programs at many venues. Fax: 502-775-1391 Original works include: Freedom Mini-performances, artist residencies, workshops and E-mail: Knows My Name, A Bus Ride with [email protected] Mrs. Rosa Parks, Fly’n High with professional development are Number of performers: 2-12 Bessie in the Sky, Africa’s Legacy available locally, regionally and Fee Range: in America, Journey, and Ayana, nationally. Companion study $3,500-7,000 the Prince and the Python. guides are available for each show. Available for block booking (Included for Kentucky teachers is a performance level KERA grid.) Storytelling and Theatre Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 89

Lexington Children’s Booking: Ron Shull Theatre 418 West Short St Lexington, KY 40507-1206 Phone: Founded in 1938, Lexington 859-254-4546 Children’s Theatre is one of the Toll-free: oldest, continuously operating 800-928-4545 theatres for young people in Fax: the country and is proud to be 859-254-9512 the State Children’s Theatre of E-mail: [email protected] Kentucky. Web site: www.lctonstage.org LCT believes every child Number of performers: 3-9 should have the opportunity to Fee Range: experience live theatre. Lexington Their Play Guide and on-line $500-6,000 Children’s Theatre produces Play Guide at www.lctonstage. Available for block booking an eight-show season with org are designed to help educators productions suitable for a variety incorporate productions into their of age groups. Their productions lesson plans. are designed and built by skilled artisans and feature professional Main Stage performances feature adult actors. The end result is a larger cast and full-scale sets to show conceived, designed, built, accommodate larger presenting rehearsed and presented by LCT venues. Tour performances feature especially for young people. smaller flexible scenery and two to four cast members, making them ideal for school multi-purpose rooms, community centers and libraries. Storytelling and Theatre 90 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Roadside Theatre Booking: Donna Porterfield 91 Madison Avenue Roadside Theater is a performing Whitesburg, KY 41858-9317 ensemble theater located in the Phone: 276-679-5281 coalfields of eastern Kentucky. Fax: Since 1975, the company has been 276-679-3116 creating and touring original E-mail: musical plays drawn from the [email protected] rich history and culture of its Web site: www.appalshop.org/rst mountain home. Number of performers: 1-6 The company has toured to 43 Fee Range: states; has been in residence a $500-16,000 number of times off-Broadway; from the Bronx; Junebug, an Available for block booking and has represented the United African American theater from States at theater festivals in New Orleans; and Idiwanan An Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, Chawe, a Native American theater and the Czech Republic. from Zuni, New Mexico.

Internationally famous for its In addition to award-winning inter-cultural collaborations, performances, Roadside Roadside Theater also creates and conducts community cultural tours new American musicals residencies designed to celebrate with companies such as Teatro a community’s history and give Pregones, a Puerto Rican theater public voice to local stories. Storytelling and Theatre Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 91

Octavia Sexton Booking: Octavia Sexton Rt 1 Box 299A Octavia Sexton grew up in a Orlando, KY 40460 rich tradition of storytelling Phone: 606-256-9796 and her stories are rooted Phone2: in the fascinating history of 606-308-4203 her family. Her English/Irish E-mail: ancestors migrated to Kentucky [email protected] via North Carolina and Virginia Number of performers: 1 from Europe—bringing their Fee Range: stories with them. She has been combination that will delight $225-500 privileged to grow up hearing folk adults and children. She has Available for block booking tales, haint tales, Jack tales and performed at festivals, community Cherokee legends that her family events, and universities and has told and retold for many frequently combines her generations. performances with educational programs at schools. A unique combination of personal stories, folk tales, Appalachian With a degree in history and history, and theatre gives English education, Octavia has Octavia’s performances a special the tools to present and teach an appreciation for our Kentucky heritage as well as for our individual stories, which should be honored and respected. Storytelling and Theatre 92 Kentucky Performing Arts Directory

Squallis Puppeteers

Squallis Puppeteers is a community based non- profit organization dedicated to expanding puppetry by performing innovative theater, exploring original puppet design, and forging creative collaborations. Through a combination of sculpting, painting, sewing, recycling and experimentation, puppet characters are created for one-of- the Speed Museum, the World Booking: a-kind performances that include Arts Youth Festival, the Louisville Jess Myers or Nora Christensen P.O. Box 4987 original music, dance, video and Central Community Center and Louisville, KY 40204 drama. the Kentucky Museum of Arts + Phone: Design. As the newspaper, Leo 502-544-1299 Squallis Puppeteers’ unique Weekly reported, “The Squallis E-mail: and innovative approach to Puppeteers seem to inspire other [email protected] puppetry encourages community people.” Web site: www.squallispuppeteers.com collaboration and they have worked with the Louisville Public Performances and workshops Number of Performers: 2-3 Library, Kentucky Shakespeare are relevant to adult and child Fee Range: $250-2,000 Festival, the Kentucky Opera, audiences and have included outdoor parades, small hand puppet shows and puppet theater pieces. Squallis Puppeteers have been designing and performing with large and small puppets since 1997. Additional Resources Kentucky Performing Arts Directory 93 Additional Resources

Arts International: An independent, not- The Kentucky Arts Council: The Kentucky National Association for Campus Activi- for-profit contemporary arts organization, Arts Council offers a variety of grants and ties: The National Association for Campus Arts International is dedicated to promot- programs to serve individual artists of Activities links the higher education and ing global interchange in the arts and all disciplines, schools, and not-for-profit entertainment communities in a busi- educating audiences worldwide. Arts Inter- organizations seeking to develop and ness and learning partnership, creating national creates Projects & Partnerships participate in arts and cultural activities. A educational and business opportunities for that help to identify, develop, and circulate full listing of programs, grants and services student and professional members. NACA new work crossing borders worldwide; offered by the Kentucky Arts Council, is provides multiple levels of membership provides funding support to artists and available on their web site. for performers, as well as regional and arts organizations engaged in interna- national showcases. tional work; and utilizes New Technologies Phone: (888) 833-2787 & Media to share information, reach new E-mail: kyarts@ ky.gov Phone: (803) 732-6222 audiences, educate and serve the public, Web site: www.artscouncil.ky.gov Web site: www.naca.org and create connections among artists and Kentucky Arts Presenters Network National Endowment for the Arts: cultural organizers around the world. (KAPN): KAPN identifies and develops Congress created the NEA, an independent Phone: (212) 674-9744 relationships with partners on the national, agency of the federal government, in 1965 E-mail: [email protected] state, regional and local levels. Through to encourage and support American art Web site: www.artsinternational.org partnering with these agencies and orga- and artists. It fulfills its mission by award- nizations, corporations and foundations, ing grants and through leadership and Arts Midwest: With assistance from Arts the Network can implement and expand advocacy activities. Midwest programs, artists from many opportunities for technical assistance, performance disciplines reach out to rural education, artist programming, marketing Phone: (202) 682-5400 and urban communities with inspiring and fundraising. Web site: www.arts.endow.gov performances and educational activi- Southern Arts Federation (SAF): The ties. The yearly Midwest Arts Conference Phone: (270) 824-1868 E-mail: [email protected] SAF offers grants to regional presenters and Performance Showcase brings the through its performing and visual arts performing arts marketplace together to Kentucky Center Education Showcases: Regional Touring Program, regional arts facilitate booking and touring plans and These one-day events are designed to workshops and conferences, and a variety to provide educational and performance introduce performing artists, visual artists, of other services. The Federation hosts opportunities. arts organizations and cultural institu- the Performing Arts Exchange every year, Phone: (612) 341-0755 tions to the educational community. The which is a major booking and perfor- E-mail: [email protected] performing arts showcases are held in mance conference and a primary forum for Web site: www.artsmidwest.org eight Kentucky locations including Crest- professional development for artists, artist view Hills, Louisville, Lexington, Paducah, managers and presenters. Association of Performing Arts Present- Ashland, Owensboro, Bowling Green and ers: The Association of Performing Arts Whitesburg. Phone: (404) 874-7244 Presenters is a national service organiza- E-mail: [email protected] tion whose programs and services include Phone: (502) 562-0703 Web site: www.southarts.org an annual members conference, books Web site: www.kentuckycenter.org and monographs on key topics related to performing arts presenting, grantmaking programs and a continuing education program which presents workshops and seminars exploring all aspects of the performing arts. Phone: (202) 833-2787 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.artspresenters.org Copyright © 2005, by the Kentucky Arts Council, Frankfort, Kentucky. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Ken- tucky Arts Council, 500 Mero Street, 21st Floor, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601.