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Breathing New Life into Missouri Fiddling: John P. Williams, from Rachel Krause for Oldtime Central
Rachel Krause interviewed oldtime fiddler John P. Williams (Madison) and rhythm guitarist Kenny Applebee for this artist profile and video published online by Oldtime Central in February 2020. “John P. Williams is an oldtime fiddler…
Missouri Blacksmiths Are Keeping a Touch, Old Trade Alive, from Anne Kniggendorf for KCUR 89.3
KCUR’s Anne Kniggendorf shared stories about blacksmiths Mike McLaughlin and Bernard Tappel, who were featured artists in an exhibition at the Mid-America Arts Alliance and a special “hammer in” demonstration during First Fridays at the…
Traditional Arts Weave “Cultural Fabric” in Missouri from Seth Bodine for KBIA
KBIA report Seth Bodine visited MFAP staff, as well as Bharatanatyam TAAP team Smrita Dorairajan and her apprentice Charunetha Murugesan for this story about both the Indian dance tradition and the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program….
Statewide program preserves and passes on traditional folk arts, from Olivia Garrett for the Columbia Missourian
Columbia Missourian reporter Olivia Garrett interviewed MFAP’s Folk Arts Specialist, as well as two previous Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program participants for the story Statewide program preserves and passes on traditional folk arts. The article was…
VISIONARY AWARDS HONOREE CARMEN DENCE PERFORMS LIKE EVERY DAY IS CARNAVAL, FROM AMY DE LA HUNT AT ALIVE MAGAZINE
We were excited to see this lovely profile of master Colombian folkloric dancer, seamstress, and choreographer Carmen S. Dence at Alive Magazine. Follow this link to read the entire essay by Amy de la Hunt,…
THE STORY OF OZARKS STORYTELLER MARIDETH SISCO, FROM OZARKS ALIVE, VIA MICHAEL COONROD
If readers haven’t subscribed to the Ozarks Alive! blog, please do. We highly recommend the great posts that Kaitlyn McConnell and friends sift from the rich Ozark hills. In the post linked below, guest blogger…
“We Just Wanted To Celebrate the Art,” by Karen Cernich at eMissourian.com
We were so excited that folklorist Barry Bergey and friends organized a recent reunion of Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts. He and friends founded MFFA in the 1970s to produce folklife events (including the…
Folk Arts @ the Capitol: Basket Making, from Barbara Gibbs Ostmann for emissourian.com
A fantastic profile of master basketmakers Joe and Alice Dudenhoeffer with apprentice Aaron Holsapple by Missouri’s favorite travel writer, Barbara Gibbs Ostmann for the online emissourian.com.
H.K. SILVEY, THE OZARKS FIDDLER WHO MADE IT TO THE MOON, from Kaitlyn McConnell’s “Ozarks Alive”
When fiddler H.K. Silvey was a boy in rural Ozark County, a down-the-road town seemed nearly as far away as the moon. Enjoy this blog post and photos from Kaitlynn McConnell’s Ozarks Alive. You’ll learn not…
“Meet the Saddlemaking Cowboy Poet of Missouri,” from Missouri Life Magazine, July 2017
“I get as much satisfaction from the last saddle I made as from the first saddle I put together,” he says. “When the day comes when that’s not the case, I’ll shut down my shop,…