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MergingArts Conversations
by Toni Pennacchia and Paul Elsnau
MergingArts Productions
Episodes
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Edo Mor - Founder of the World Music Collider series, Co-Founder of the Barbes in the Woods festival, and Partner with Laudable Productions
Edo is the founder of the World Music Collider series taking place in Western MA and oriented towards dance rather than traditional concerts and a partner with Laudable Productions, a creative agency based in Easthampton, Massachusetts in the US. Edo most recently co-founded Barbes in the Woods…
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Bob Francois - President and Booking Manager of Rara Bel Poze - 33rd Lowell Folk Festival
Rara Bel Poze, a traditional Haitian street band that plays a mix of Haitian traditional music, gospel music, and American music with acoustic instruments along with custom Haitian horns, performing at the 33rd Lowell Folk Festival. The Lowell Folk Festival takes place each year, Friday…
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Dawn Avery - Cellist, Composer, Vocalist, Educator - Mohawk/Sufi - Our Fire, Ajijaak, Beloved
GRAMMY and NAMA nominated, Dawn has worked with musical luminaries Luciano Pavarotti, Phillip Glass, John Cage, Ustad Sultan Khan, and R. Carlos Nakai. She has toured the world playing Delta Blues with the Soldier String Quartet and Sufi Persian Funk with Sussan Deyhim, and Jazz masters Will...
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Mu Qian, Company Manager of the Zhou Family Band, at the 2018 BU Global Music Festival
The Zhou Family Band plays traditional wind and percussion music that has accompanied birth and death of people in Central-Eastern China for more than 600 years. Coming from Lingbi, Anhui Province, the Zhou family have been musicians for seven generations, and are bearers of a tradition that...
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Jose Ibanez from Orchesta El Macabeo at the 2018 BU Global Music Festival
Jose is the bassist and band leader of Orchesta El Macabeo, a Puerto Rican salsa group created in 2008 in Trujillo Alto and part of their particular sound is based on the fact that the group is made up mostly of musicians who played in rock, punk, ska and reggae groups. We chatted about the…
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Marie Abe - Professor of Music, Musician, and Artistic Director of the BU Global Music Festival
Marie is an Assistant Professor of Music in the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University. Marie is the founder of BU Global Music Concert Series, aiming to bring artists steeped in folkloric, popular, and traditional music around the world, for Boston University and…
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Ty Furman - Managing Director of the BU Arts Initiative on the 2018 BU Global Music Festival
Ty began as the Managing Director of the BU Global Arts Initiative in 2012. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Platt Student Performing Arts House at the University of Pennsylvania and served as Managing Director of the Barrymore Award winning Vagabond Acting Troupe. We chatted about the...
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Brian Keigher of People of Rhythm Productions, Co-Producer of the 2018 BU Global Festival
People of Rhythm Productions founded by Brian Keigher serves as a performing arts presenting organization, a record label and a creative music production company. Serving various music needs on all levels from event production to providing live, original or licensed music for ad agencies and...
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Kevin Dwyer - Executive Director of the Lowell Festival Foundation - 32nd Lowell Folk Festival
Kevin Dwyer, Executive Director of the Lowell Festival Foundation, chatted with us about the Lowell Folk Festival history through the 32nd edition of the festival. The Lowell Folk Festival takes place each year, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, of the last full weekend in July, providing the best in...
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Andrew Collins Trio - Pushing Musical Boundaries in Canada - MergingArts Conversation
Andrew, who is comfortable on mandolin, fiddle, guitar, mandola and mandocello – is zeroing in on the work he does with his beloved trio: fellow string guru Mike Mezzatesta, whose versatility shines through on guitar, mandolin, fiddle and mandola, and in-the-pocket James McEleney, holding it down...
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Betsayda Machado - Voice of Venezuela - MergingArts Conversation
Betsayda's voice can be heard in the secret villages just a short bus ride from Caracas, tucked deep in foliage. On the right day, and her and her band beat with the pulse and poetry of a band strolling from house to house referenced as parranda, a sound that finds earthy, moving expression in…
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Sprouts: The Tenuous Future of Grassroots Radio
Under threat from large organizations like National Public Radio, college and community radio stations are losing their place on the airwaves. We heard from some of their stories and look at what the future might hold. We spoke with following folks: Jennifer Waits of Spinning Indie and Radio...
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Toumani Diabate - Legendary Kora Collaborator Interview
We were fortunate to catch up with the kora playing legend, Toumani Diabate, during a tour with his symmetric orchestra on a stop at the University of Rhode Island as part of the 10th anniversairy of the URI Pangea Roots music series back in 2008. He performs solo, with the symmetric orchestra…
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Christopher Dawson - Athol-Royalston Director of Technology/Education ZDNet
Christopher Dawson grew up in Seattle, back in the days of pre-antitrust Microsoft, coffeeshops owned by something other than Starbucks, and really loud, inarticulate music. He received a degree in Information Systems from Johns Hopkins University and began a career in health and educational...
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Nancy McCoy-Wozniak - Learning Architect at Stony Brook University and the Wizard of Woz
Nancy McCoy-Wozniak became Stony Brook University's first Learning Architect in The Faculty Center where she consults with faculty on the planning and design of courses and effective course management methods. She received her Masters of Arts in Education, specializing in Instructional Technology...
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Michael Staton - Founder of Inigral discusses Engaging the Campus Community
Michael Staton is the Co-Founder and CEO of Inigral, Inc, a company that builds social web applications for education. Their product Schools on Facebook has generated much excitement in the press. Before starting Inigral, he was an Educational Interaction and Curriculum Designer for a San…
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