Missouri Folk Arts in the News

March 21, 2019

Columbia Missourian, Story on TAAP

In his home dedicated to his instruments, Bob Cathey prepares to play a tune on his favorite violin in Hallsville. Photo by Madison Parry for the 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 published online, in print in the daily newspaper, and in print and online for the Missourian’s special Boomtown: How to Live your Best Life in Columbia over 50. …

March 6, 2019

Alive Magazine: Carmen S. Dence

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, which describes Dence’s passion for the traditional dances that she grew up with and that sustain her today: Visionary Awards Honoree Carmen Dence Performs Like Every Day Is Carnaval…

Sep. 27, 2018

Ozarks Alive: Marideth Sisco

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 Michael Coonrod writes about Marideth Sisco, likely no stranger to Show Me Folk’s friends. Marideth even authored a Stories from the Field post for us, following up the great 2016 floods in south central Missouri.  Mr. Coonrod fortunately attended a recent performance by Marideth Sisco and Blackberry Winter Band at Prairie Day at Carver National Monument in Diamond, Mo., where audience members…

Sep. 19, 2018

eMissourian.com: MO Friends of the Folk Arts

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 Frontier Folk Festival, 1977-1983) and to document a number of traditional artists in Missouri and Arkansas. After MFFA, Barry brought his rich experience to a new position as Missouri’s first state folklorist and later in Folk and Traditional Arts positions at the National Endowment for the Arts.  Here’s a news article (linked below) about the reunion, Barry’s career and…

April 9, 2018

emissourian.com: Basketmaking

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. …

Oct. 3, 2017

Ozarks Alive: H.K. Silvey

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 only how H.K. Silvey came to be such a fine fiddler but how he made a living in the aerospace industry before returning home to Theodosia: http://www.ozarksalive.com/h-k-silvey-ozarks-fiddler-made-moon/…

Sep. 29, 2017

Missouri Life: Martin Bergin

“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, pack up my dog, and go ’possum hunting.” A feature story and photographs by Eddie O’Neill about master saddlemaker and cowboy poet Martin Bergin for Missouri Life Magazine. Read the full story here: http://www.missourilife.com/life/art/martin-bergin/ 

Aug. 16, 2017

Acoustic Guitar: McClurg Jam

A story and photographs by Karen Peterson about Missouri’s McClurg Jam  for Acoustic Guitar, featuring Missouri old-time guitarist Alvie Dooms, guitarist/community scholar Gordon McCann, and fiddler David Scrivner. Dooms has been jamming at McClurg since its beginnings. “If I’m able to hold my head up, I go,” he quips. http://acousticguitar.com/inside-the-mcclurg-jam-the-heart-of-the-deep-ozarks-sound/…

Aug. 1, 2017

St. Louis Magazine: Carmen S. Dence

Carmen Dence, founder of dance troupe Grupo Atlántico, talks life and performance. Photo by Kevin A. Roberts [Carmen Sofia Dence is a long-time participant in MFAP’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and educational projects. Her performance group Grupo Atlántico participates in the Missouri Arts Council’s Touring Performers.]…

Aug. 1, 2017

Lake News Online: JP’s Boots

From the Lake News, story and photo by Kirstie Hunter Family Tradition: JP’s hand-crafted boots for nearly 40 years [Both Joe Patrickus and Joey Patrickus have participated in MFAP’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.]…