Larnell Starkey and the Spiritual Seven
Larnell Starkey and the Spiritual Seven, of Rocky Mount, Virginia, has been spreading their Ministry in Songs for over 36 years.
Larnell Starkey and the Spiritual Seven, of Rocky Mount, Virginia, has been spreading their Ministry in Songs for over 36 years.
Cantor Irena Altshul serves as the first invested Cantor at Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation in Reston, Virginia.
Born July 4, 1930, on Mulholland’s Plantation in Coffee County, Georgia, Maggie Ingram worked in the cotton and tobacco fields with her parents.
The Paschall Brothers stand firmly in the great tradition of unaccompanied religious singing in the Tidewater region of Virginia.
Moges Seyoum began his musical education in Ethiopia at the age of eight. He soon became an accomplished singer himself, and an expert in the various genres of Ethiopian Orthodox Christian chant, sacred dance, and associated instrumental practices.
Elder Frank Newsome, of Little David Old Regular Baptist Church outside of Haysi, Virginia, is one of the great masters of the Old Regular Baptist singing style, which he used to inspire his small but spirited congregation every Sunday.
Master storyteller Lloyd Arneach is a bearer of the deep traditions of the Eastern Band Cherokee of North Carolina. He will be keeping children of all ages rapt with stories drawn from his heritage, and those he has written himself.
The music of La Gran Banda covers the wide range of the regional dance styles found in the towns of Colombia’s Caribbean coast, wrapping them all in the brass flair that characterizes the traditional papayera.
A longtime collaborator with Wylie Gustafson, former rodeo cowboy and master cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski will join Wylie both in a full band setting, and in stripped downs sets focusing on wordplay.
A member of the legendary Gladiators, one of the most popular vocal groups to emerge from Jamaica in the formative years of reggae, singer and songwriter Clinton Fearon has been bringing roots reggae music to audiences across the globe for close to four decades.