As a teaching artist and music producer, Stefon “Bionik” Taylor has discovered a profound commitment to guiding and inspiring people to express their creative voices using music and songwriting. Using modern tools and technology, Bionik helps participants tell their stories through the creation and recording of original music and lyrics. Bionik’s passion for music started [...]
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Sarah Larsson
Sarah Jagoda Larsson is a performing musician and folklorist devoted to building resources to preserve and celebrate folk tradition. Sarah tours internationally as a vocalist and percussionist in The Nightingale Trio, an ensemble singing contemporary arrangements of Jewish and Slavic women’s music from Eastern Europe. Her music has been called “a revelation” by reviewers, and [...]
Orkestar Bez Ime (OBI)
Booking evening and weekend performances. Since 2002, Orkestar Bez Ime (or-KESS-tar behz EE-meh) has been sharing Balkan and Romany music, culture, dance and history with audiences across the United States. We believe that music is the universal language that brings disparate people together—even when the language is foreign and the music unfamiliar. One of our [...]
Nanilo
Nanilo is Sarina Partridge and Sarah Larsson, a duo of women singing songs of diaspora. Nanilo is a duo of women singing songs of diaspora. Nanilo traces musical lines to tradition from Jewish and Eastern European roots. Singing entirely in the songs’ original languages, including Yiddish, Russian, Ladino, Hebrew, and more, the duo showcases the way music [...]
Minnesota Percussion Trio
Minnesota Percussion Trio is comprised of percussionists Bob Adney, Paul Hill and Erik Barsness. These three creative classical percussionists specialize in traditional Western percussion instruments, along with more unconventional instruments that can produce surprising musical sounds. The Minnesota Percussion Trio has performed for literally thousands of young people in the Twin Cities since 1987 via [...]
Laura MacKenzie
Considered a Master Folk Artist (Minnesota State Arts Board), Laura MacKenzie has learned from many tradition-bearers on both sides of the Atlantic. Of Scottish heritage (through Rankins and MacKenzies), her people came to the United States by way of Nova Scotia and Northern Ireland. In Saint Paul, Minnesota, Laura learned to play traditional music at [...]
CORDA
“Music is the universal language and one of my most valuable experiences from living in Eastern Europe came from my frequent encounters with Romani artists and their families. Their music, so profoundly reflecting their culture and their history, continues to be a great inspiration for me”, says guitarist Pavel Jany. CORDA’s “The Story of Romani [...]
Charlie Maguire
Photo credit Linda Koutsky Charlie is completely self-taught on guitar and various other folk instruments. He grew up in New York and at the age of 13 started his guitar “lessons” when he purchased a how-to book in a drugstore. After college, he was mentored by Pete Seeger, Lee Hays (“If I had a Hammer”) [...]
