2016 NHMFS Program Schedule

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FROM THE FESTIVAL DIRECTOR christopher layerWelcome to our fifth anniversary season!!! Welcome festival friends to the fifth New Harmony Music Festival & School! Welcome to community, freedom, and the harmony of sounds in soaring spaces, old ballads in historic theaters, and morning serenades out of doors while nature bestows her gifts upon us in this harmonious spiritual mecca for the soul. I invite you to bring your own joy and enthusiasm for musical creation to bear on our offerings in this cradle of life and sharing. Drink deep from the font of exploration and linger long in the land of things creative. On behalf of Clem Penrose and all at the New Harmony Artists Guild, dear listener, you are invited!This season...This years “theme” is Vaudeville-Burlesque, but before you raise an eyebrow let us examine the possibilities: Early20th century French composers whose music music was filled with lush jazz harmonies imported from New Orleans,New York City, St. Louis and Chicago, American composers who also felt the influence of musical theater, musichalls, dance halls, and comic opera! It’s a season of surprise and sultry songs! We are also thrilled to be performingour annual outdoor concert at 9am, Saturday, July 16 in the Philip Johnson Roofless Church featuring a Steinwayconcert grand piano courtesy of H&H Music in Evansville. (In the event of rain, the concert will move to theThrall’s Opera House!)Since last season...The friends and relatives of the late Jane Blaffer Owen came together in the Rapp-Owen Granary in 2016 to markher centenary birthday. This year, the festival family salutes “Miss Jane’s” 101st year! No doubt she still lingers withus, quietly tending the flowers, historic buildings, and little “pleasure boat” she loved so dearly. The title of hernewly-released memoir, Like a River, Not a Lake is simply a must-have to view New Harmony through her eyes!Last December, festival artists came together at the Thrall’s Opera House to perform Christmas In Appalachia,which was broadcast live across four states!!! The seasonal music and readings included Appalachian fiddle tunes,clog dancing, ancient Irish Airs, sacred hymns, other gems of Christmastide! Festival stage manager, Angel Gieneartjumped in on some tunes with his drum and the whole crew joined the Christmas In New Harmony Parade!!!Festival volunteers Kelsey Georgeson and Katie Lesesne, who also attended, first arrived in 2012 and 2013 as NHMFstudents, and this week they will be leading their fellow students, performing for seniors at the New HarmonyHealth Care Center and Charles Ford Memorial Home, and playing our free “pop-up” concerts at lunchtimearound town.In April of 2016, the Murphy Auditorium played host to festival performers including blues phenomenon,Jerron “Blindboy” Paxton, and wizard of the glass armonica, William Zeitler, along with Mazz Swift and astudent ensemble form the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. The concert, Music From ThomasJefferson’s Monticello. It was filmed by Adam Smith at WNIN Public Media, and in April of this year thefestival released it’s first one-hour television special drawn from the concert!! Be sure to catch it streamingonline at WNIN.org!I’d also like to thank a few special friends who helped and mentored me along the way: John Streetman,whose warmth and guidance has been most appreciated; John Martin, Owen Lewis, Clem Penrose, and JerryWade, who along with festival intern, Zachary Watson and Kathy Sale, watch the music factory whenever Iam away on musical business. Bravo, dear friends! (Welcome letter continued on next page) July 2016 <<< 03

Welcome letter continued ...Spring 2016 doings...This last march,a very special thing happened: 92 year-old chamber music legend and pianist, Menahem Pressler agreed to give his name to the first Menahem Pressler Piano Weekend, under the creative guidance of his doctoral fellow Ilya Friedberg. The weekend featured Pressler students Phyllis Pan and Noah Sonderling, along withfestival student Greg Kostraba in a series of amazing concerts dedicated to Mr. Pressler’s amazing gifts of music andmusic education. The Historic Corbin-Heinl Piano Benefit Concert also took place and funds were raised to beginrestoration of that great instrument which will eventually live again on the stage of the Historic Thrall’s Opera House!In April the festival produced From The French Court To The Cajun Kitchen. This critically acclaimed musicaljourney, created by festival artist Paul Woodiel and myself, followed one song from it’s birth in the Dark Ages,across the sea to New France and Quebec, through Wabash Country and at last into the bayous and backwatersof Cajun Louisiana, and featured Paul Gregoire, Wade Bernard from Cajunland, festival oboist ToniMarieMarchioni, as well as local celeb, Matthew O’Neill among others for a splendid night of music, dance, and song!!Christopher LayerFestival Founder & NHAG Music Festival Project Director and Secretary of the Board for The New HarmonyArtist’s Guild, a 501c3 public charity.04 >>> New Harmony Music Festival & School

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OUR 2016 FESTIVAL ASSISTANTS& FESTIVAL PIPERMr. Zachary Watson Mr. Angel Gieneart Ms. Wendy Van Korn Ms. Rikky Griffin-FosterTOur 2016 Festival Assistants RThe Festival Piper his year, the music festival & school enlisted the help of three ikky Griffin-Foster of Moab, multi-talented individuals to keep things running smoothly Utah returns this season to teach at the summer school and throughout the festival week of beginning pipes, and as our officialconcerts, greeting concertgoers, running to the airports, registering festival piper, welcoming patrons to ourstudents, and administering first aid or a hug when needed. We concerts and events and summoning themwould like to recognize them for their interest, dedication, and kind back from intermission.consideration of our artists, our audience members, and our students. Ms. Griffin-Foster is a veterinary technicianWendy Van Korn, Zachary Watson, and Angel Gieneart, our team by day, and loves all animals. Thanks,leaders are without question one of the finest groups of organizers a Rikky!festival could ever want! In particular, Zachary Watson, who comesto us from the USI/Lilly Foundation Intern Program has proved hisworth many times over this Spring!NHMF&S/NHAG LOCAL & NATIONAL SCHOLAR PROGRAMEach year the festival school reaches out to needy music students providing them with scholarships to our summer music school. In addition to returning local scholars, Joshua Janek, and Johnathon Webber, the festival has reach across the USA to find students possessing unique gifts or special interests that we might fulfill at school. This year, the festival is very proud to welcome our first National Scholar. Andrew Woolridge of Red Lodge, Montana is our 2016 selectee, receiving full tuition, meals and concert tickets to this year’s festival and school. To meet the scholar requirements, Andrew had to raise his travel funds to and from school and complete 22 hours of supervised service in his own community in Montana for a school, church, charity, or other public institution. Andrew will be studying bagpipes with our festival piper, Rikky Foster, and dance with Nic Gareiss during the week. To find out more about scholarship opportunities or to contribute to the Scholars Fund, please visit us online or call us at 812-472-4321, or visit our website www.NewHarmonyMusicFest.com06 >>> New Harmony Music Festival & School

ABOUT THE MUSIC FESTIVAL SCHOOLAt festival time, several students, teacher/performers, and chaperone’s from places like Australia, the U.S., Israel, France, Canada, and Switzerland come together to share life in the presence of music. Ranging in age from ten to eighty-nine years, this “circle of musicians” shares meals, housing, classrooms, and common roomswhile seeking musical training, relaxation, fellowship and life outside the conservatory, classroom or stale office building.The mission of the festival school is to offer musicians from one particular style or musical world the opportunityto inhabit another musical world in a non-threatening, intellectually challenging environment. Workshops include Irish and Scandinavian Fiddle, Classical Violin, Improvisation, Singing and Movement, and the popular “Group Therapy” Class. During Group Therapy, all the students and teachers gather together in a forum where anyone can offer up activities for the group, perform, clap, sing, and enjoy music fellowship. As always, our students attend this week’s concerts, and we encourage you to greet and visit with them to find out more about their experience at the festival school. To participate or to contribute to next year’s summer school, and fall workshops, fundraisers, classes, etc., please visit our website:www.NewHarmonyMusicFest.com or call: 812-472-4321. July 2016 <<< 07

TRAD JAM Sara’s Harmony WaySESSION #1 Monday July 11 at 8:00pm until ? free 01featuring music festival students,locals and festival artistsThe public is invited to enjoy our festival performers and students as they gather at Sara’s Harmony Way for fun, fellowship, songs, fiddle tunes, and more Monday evening July 11 and Wednesday evening July 13! The coffee shop and the wine bar are both open, though the wine bar side is limited to age 21 and over. About Sara’s Harmony Way... Set in the old Wilson’s Furniture Store building, the coffee shop side was opened several years ago by proprietor Laura Hutchins, with the venerable Stephen Pace Gallery next door. The coffee shop and wine bar were recently renovated by local businesswoman and festival champion, Sara Brown, of Carmi, IL. Both our festival and local concert presenters Music Under The Beams enjoy after-event gathering throughout the year as well as the in-house entertainment that Sara herself provides most weekends. The music festival is grateful to Sara and David Brown for allowing us to present our evenings of shared music in their welcoming establishment. Be sure to tip your server!08 >>> New Harmony Music Festival & School

FESTIVAL ART SHOW:DOWN THE WATER ROAD 02 Owen Community House Tuesday July 12 at 6:30pm free“Vaudeville Primitives” featuring the works of 2016 Festival Artist:Michael KeyThe New Harmony Music Festival & School Project salutes its parent organization, The New Harmony Artist’s Guild Inc., which was founded more than a decade ago by painter, craftsman, and songwriter, Clement Biddle Penrose VII. The guild has served the New Harmony arts and music community in different ways at different times. Penrose calls the guild“a creative incubator.” The guild lends musical instruments and gives music lessons to young or needy students, provides soundequipment to performers, and serves as a sort of office and drop-in center for those needing a printer, a desk, internet service, orthe odd ham sandwich. The Owen Community House is a concert hall, crafts center, and stop for weary travelers. The “musiccircles” that meet weekly have their own night for their particular style or group of pickers and jammers. Thus the Artists Guild’s“loose confederation of arts, educational, and cultural projects” is truly diverse. Without the constant stewardship of its “guildspeople”and the ongoing support of the Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation, under the leadership of Board President, Erik O. Arneberg, whohave provided a home for the Artist’s Guild in the lovely old Community House since its inception, none of this would be possible.The festival is particularly grateful for the hard work of local guild volunteers Kathy Redmond, Barb Lance, Randy Pease, JohnMartin, Owen Lewis, and Guild Director Penrose for their support. We look forward to future projects under the auspices of TheNew Harmony Artists Guild that will bring music and art to the community as we grow and change.MAbout the 2016 Festival Artist: MICHAEL KEY ichael Key was born on Bald Hill, the highest point in Gibson County outside of Princeton, Indiana. He attended Indiana Universitythen moved to New York City where he sang in obscurerock bands, wrote poetry and dabbled in performanceart. Moving back to the Midwest in 1997, he beganto paint, finding like many before him, his true voiceand vocation upon returning to his “home country”.Mr. Key’s works are in private collections throughoutthe United States and currently he resides in Evansville,Indiana. The festival is especially grateful to Mr. Key forhis enthusiastic and artful embrasure of this year’s festivaltheme: Vaudeville/Burlesque, creating new works specificallyfor this evening’s show on that theme. Several of the worksshown tonight are for sale from the artist, who also acceptscommissions. Mr. Key invites inquiries before during orafter the festival week. Contact: [email protected] “The Mermaid & Her Friends” Painting by Michael Key, 2016 July 2016 <<< 09

FESTIVAL COMMUNITY SHOWCASE CONCERT03 The Meier Atheneum Tuesday July 12 at 8:00pm FREE (To RSVP please call 812-472-4321 for reservations.)Yann Falquet: Guitar & Vocals Mazz Swift: Violin & Vocals; Natalie Haas: Cello; Martha Waldvogel: HarpChristopher Layer: Flutes, Pipes & Host; Dr. George Wolfe: Saxophone; Pascal Gemme: Fiddle; Nic Gareiss & CleekSchrei: Dance & Fiddle; Susie Petrov: Accordion; ToniMarie Marchioni: Oboe; plus special guests !!!All selections will be announced from the stage.The concert will be recorded. (Kindly turn your cell phones off and refrain from unnecessary noise or crinkly candy wrappers. Thank you!) The festival would like to thank and acknowledge Historic New Harmony- USI for providing discounted artist’s housing, teaching space and our lovely venue this evening.WE NEED YOUR HELP! PLEASE SUPPORT OUR LOCAL FESTIVAL STUDENT PROGRAMS!!!Your *DONATIONS as you enter or leave tonight’s free concert will benefit our Local Scholars Program as well as helpcover the rental of The Atheneum. Please take a moment to greet our local scholars at the reception following tonight’sprogram. *If you would like to give a gift over $50, please see Zach Watson or Christopher Layer after the show to arrangeyour 2016 tax benefit letter from our 501c3 non-profit parent: The New Harmony Artist’s Guild! MOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL music in concert with the landscape™24th Annual Festival • September 1–12, 2016 Chamber music, jazz, Latin, and traditionalmusic with exceptional artists among theunforgettable red rocks of Southeastern Utah 435.259.7003 moabmusicfest.org Westwater Musical Raft Trip tickets are available for August 24–26, 2016!10 >>> New Harmony Music Festival & School

FESTIVAL PIANO TALK AND CONCERT04 Holy Angels Community Center Wednesday July 13 6:30pm-7:30pm FREE Scott Joplin: A Lullaby In Ragtime With Tom McDermott: Host and PianistThe composer and performer Scott Joplin (1868?-1917) was born in Texas to Giles Joplin, a North Carolinian who was enslaved until emancipation and a free woman of Kentucky, Florence Givens. Although both were musicians, the young Joplin was not encouraged in music by his father but rather his mother Florence who ensured hismusical education as no small expense to herself and perhaps her marriage to Giles, who left the family in the 1880s.Joplin, known as “The King of Ragtime Writing” is today considered a seminal uniter of African American music, classical“through composed music” as well as latin influences, earning a place as a founding father American music, gave birthto some 44 ragtime compositions, 2 operas, marches, and waltzes, 20th Century American Jazz historian marked as “agenuine native music”. Tonight, acclaimed New Orleans Pianist and historian Tom McDermott share his unique musicalportrait of this great American composer and his music. McDermott, who was recently featured on Nick Spitzer’s weeklynational radio broadcast “American Roots” is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, but has made his home in New Orleans,LA for too many years to count and is welcomed on any stage in “Storyville” by anyone who appreciates the great untoldstories of Jazz in America.The festival would like to thank Father Edward Schnur and the Saint Francis Xavier Parish for the use of theHoly Angels Community Center during the entire week for classes, rehearsals, and tonight’s program.***As always, the festival donation box is available for those wishing to give a free-will donation in appreciation fortonight’s music.05 TRAD JAM SESSION # 2 Sara’s Harmony Way Wednesday July 13 at 8:00pm until ? FREEFeaturing music festival students, locals, and festival artistsIn New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Montreal, and of course Ireland and Scotland, Sunday afternoons areoften reserved for a “session” of traditional music at the local pub. Fiddlers, pipers, singers, bards, listeners, talkers,gawkers, German tourists, drinkers, thinkers, smilers, frowners, ladies and gentlemen and most of the kids all pile in,while the musicians tune up, sip the foam off the top of their new pint of black beer, catch up on the week’s news,and begin leading each other through old tunes and new, each player recalling a jig or a rake of reels, while the otherplayers chime in, and the crafty tunes come to life, never having been written down.In the spirit of olden days before gigantic speakers and roaring televisions ruled the pub, and out of courtesy to your fellow listeners,guests are asked to please keep conversations low when music is in progress, particularly if a singer is singing. July 2016 <<< 11

MUSIC FESTIVAL COMMUNITY CONTRA DANCE:FEATURING THE 2016 STUDENT & FACULTY DANCE BAND06 The Rapp-Owen Granary, Thursday July 14 at 7:00 pm Adults $10, Kids 12 and under, FREEDance Caller & Musical Arrangements: Miss Susie PetrovDancing in 1814 was a matter of social discourse for citizens of the fledgling United States. Dances like the waltz, madepopular by the French around 1804, were still the rage here in the New World. Throughout the two hundred years ofNew Harmony’s history, dancing was a community activity up to and through the 20th century at the Oddfellows Hall,Sass and Poss, The American Legion, The Ribeyre Gymnasium, and The Owen Community House.The Rapp-Owen Granary dates to the second decade of the 19th century and is a wonderful example of creativerepurposing. Our thanks go out to the Rapp-Owen Granary Foundation, which completed a massive restorationin 1999. We offer this description of the building’s history from the Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation website:RobertLeeBlafferFoundation.orgAround 1818, the sandstone, brick, and wood granary had been completed by the Rappites. In 1827, after the town was sold,the Granary became part of William Maclure’s holdings. Maclure, known as the Father of American Geology, used the granaryfor geologic laboratory investigations, specimen storage and display. In 1837, David Dale Owen, engaged by the Indiana GeneralAssembly as the first state geologist, was granted use of the granary, its equipment, specimens and library.In 1843, he bought the granary and improved the “second” level of the building with large windows and developed a lectureroom, laboratories and museums – his third geologic laboratory – “all open for the enjoyment and instruction of townspeopleand visitors.” After David Dale Owen’s death in 1860, the building was used as a woolen mill, gutted by a fire in 1878, rebuiltas a granary in 1893, and remodeled as a wheat granary in 1905. In the 1990’s, Kenneth D. Owen, also a geologist, initiatedthe granary’s historic preservation. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and is located in the NationalLandmark Site of New Harmony.We would also like to thank The Working Men’s Institute Library for sharing some of the original “Owenite” dance musicwith us five years ago! Music from the Robert Henry Fauntleroy Music Manuscripts in the collection will be played thisevening by the combined student and faculty “big band.” That music came to the library through the Fauntleroy familydescendants. Fauntleroy was a draftsman, scientist, and as it turns out, a skilled fifer and flautist from rural Virginia beforehe married the daughter of Robert Owen, Jane Dale Owen.We can say with some certainty that some of the rare and lovely dance tunes heard here tonight were not only arranged byFauntleroy in New Harmony around 1826, but were in fact a part of the steady diet of music-making and social dancingthat enlivened life here on the prairie.12 >>> New Harmony Music Festival & School

FESTIVAL CONCERT & LIVE BROADCAST07 The Historic Thrall’s Opera House Friday, July 10 at 7:30pmYann Falquet: Guitar & Vocals; Natalie Haas: Cello; Christopher Layer: Flutes & Pipes; Pascal Gemme FiddleSusie Petrov: Piano & Accordion; Nic Gareiss & Cleek Schrey: Dance and Fiddle; Mazz Swift: Violin & VocalsMartha Waldvogel-Warren: Harp; Dr. George Wolfe: Saxophone; Tom McDermott: PianoIlya Friedberg: Piano; ToniMarie Marchioni: OboeAll of this evening’s selections will be announced from the stage. There will be one 15-minute intermission.Because this evening’s concert is being recorded and broadcast live, please observe restraint in terms of cacophonouscandy wrappers or other unnecessary noise during the concert. We must regrettably ask that parents with infantchildren please be seated in the rear of the theater for the sake of an easy exit. The Festival would like to thankAmanda Bryden and Indiana State Museum & Historic Sites for their overwhelming help and encouragement,and Jeff Koester and Chris Laughbaum at KOLA Management for their assistance throught the festival year.Our Festival Live BroadcastsTwo years ago,the festival began working in conjunction with WNIN Public Media in Evansville, Indiana topresent portions of our concerts LIVE to audiences on the radio, and live streaming on the internet. Our thanksgo out to participating radio stations in the tri-state area, including WBAA-Purdue University and supportfrom WSIU-Carbondale, IL. Our concert radio broadcasts reach out to a wide radius around New Harmonyand across the midwest. Please share the live streaming concert link: WNIN.org with your Facebook Twitter ande-mail friends so they can listen in with YOU on Friday and Saturday nights, starting at 8pm CST. The festivalwould like to thank WNIN President and General Manager Brad Kimmel, Vice President of Radio, Steve Burger,and this year’s on-air host, Greg Kostraba from WBAA at Purdue for their participation, support, and constantconsideration in the past and going forward into the future!About the live recordings...Tim Piazza: Festival Sound EngineerFor the last four year’s one man has overseen the recording of over 50 HOURS of festival concerts. His name isTim Piazza. A local musician, recording engineer, concert promoter and professional musician, he and his familyhave been part of the festival family since the beginning in 2012! It is impossible to say thank you enough, butplease do if you see him lurking about the front of the hall, or sneaking away to play some hot mandolin licks!!! July 2016 <<< 13

OUTDOOR PIANO CONCERTAT THE ROOFLESS CHURCH08 Saturday, July 16 at 9:00am (Please note that the doors will open at 8:30am)Yann Falquet: Guitar & Vocals; Natalie Haas: Cello; Christopher Layer: Flutes & Pipes; Pascal Gemme FiddleSusie Petrov: Piano & Accordion; Nic Gareiss & Cleek Schrey: Dance and Fiddle; Mazz Swift: Violin & VocalsMartha Waldvogel-Warren: Harp; Dr. George Wolfe: Saxophone; Tom McDermott: PianoIlya Friedberg: Piano; ToniMarie Marchioni: OboeAll selections will be announced from the stage. The concert is seventy-five minutes with no intermission. Restrooms are located just east of the Roofless Church in the Red Geranium. The Roofless Church, conceptualized by Jane Blaffer Owen and realized by the American architect Philip Johnson, is a sort of musical creche. The ecumenical place of worship was dedicated in 1960 and contains several sculptures, a fountain, a pieta, and the imposing cedar shake and wood dome below which rests Jacques Lipschitz’ magnificent bronze sculpture of the descending Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. We ask that our concertgoers maintain a respectful quiet before the concert so that others may enjoy a contemplative atmosphere before the music begins. The Festival would like thank Annie Owen, The New Harmony Inn General Manager, Peter Nowotny and everyone at Red Geranium Enterprises for their ongoing support of the festival and school project as well as the loan of the chairs this morning, and countless other kindnesses throughout the festival year. The Steinway Model D Grand Piano today is provided courtesy of H&H Music, Evansville.MUSIC FESTIVAL GRAND CONCERT & LIVE BROADCAST09 The Historic Thrall’s Opera House, Saturday, July 16 at 7:30pmYann Falquet: Guitar & Vocals; Natalie Haas: Cello; Christopher Layer: Flutes & Pipes; Pascal Gemme FiddleSusie Petrov: Piano & Accordion; Nic Gareiss & Cleek Schrey: Dance and Fiddle; Mazz Swift: Violin & VocalsMartha Waldvogel-Warren: Harp; Dr. George Wolfe: Saxophone; Tom McDermott: PianoIlya Friedberg: Piano; ToniMarie Marchioni: OboeFestival founder and director, Christopher Layer will host the evening’s concert, a portion of which will be broadcast live on WNIN Public Radio and WBAA Public Radio-Purdue University, through the generosity of the Indiana Public Broadcasting Network.All selections will be announced from the stage. There will be one 15-minute intermission.This evening’s concert will be recorded. Please observe restraint in terms of clamorous candy wrappers or unnecessary noise duringthe concert. We must regrettably ask that parents attending the concert with infants or small children be seated in the rear of thetheater for the sake of an easy exit.14 >>> New Harmony Music Festival & School

Ilya Friedberg – Classical Piano/Festival Creative Co-director 2016 FESTIVAL ARTISTS (Menahem Pressler Piano Weekend) Ilya Friedberg began his life in St. Petersburg, Russia. His musical gifts early-on led him to a life in Ilya Friedbergmusic “unexpected but welcomed”, sharing his music in places and withpeople that recognized him as a “poet of the piano with a magical touchthat can bring a fresh view on much-played pieces.” At home on the stageas both a soloist and chamber musician, Ilya is a performer, composer,and conductor as well as an active promoter of new music. A winner ofmultiple international competition, Ilya has enjoyed collaborations withartists such as the Pacifica Quartet, David Baker, Vladimir Ashkenazy,Claude Baker, Mark Kaplan, Evelyne Brancart, Tim Noble, Carol Vaness,Uriel Segal, Eric Stumacher.He has performed worldwide in concert halls such as Small PhilharmonicHall in St.Petersburg, Carnegie Hall, and other venues across Europe andthe United States. Ilya is a student of Menahem Pressler and has beenhis teaching assistant for the past three years at Indiana University. Mr.Friedberg joined the festival in 2015 as a member of the ensemble thatcreated “Music From Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello”. In the Spring of2016 he became the creative co-director and founder of the music festivaland school’s Menahem Pressler Piano Weekend in New Harmony, arole that we hope he will continue to fulfill annually as the festival goesforward.Natalie Haas – Cello One of the most sought-after “cello-fiddlers” Natalie Haas in progressive acoustic and traditional music today, Natalie’s personal style in that area is groundbreaking and innovative. July 2016 <<< 15Because her skills are so exceptional, she has also become a valuable assetto the classical music world, both as a teacher and performer. Haas is agraduate of the Juilliard School in New York City, where she studied withcellist Fred Sherry.She and Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser have toured as a duo for over adozen years, wowing audiences at festivals and concerts worldwide withtheir unique acoustic duo sound. They have recorded numerous CDs in theScottish traditional genre. Natalie has also toured with Mark O’Connor asa member of The Appalachian Waltz Trio. Haas and O’Connor premieredO’Connor’s double concerto for violin and cello, “For The Heroes,” with theGrand Rapids, East Texas, and San Diego Symphonies. As a studio musician,Natalie has been a guest artist on over fifty albums, including those of CapeBreton fiddler Natalie MacMaster, Laura Cortese, and the Irish super-groupSolas. Her kid sister is the old-time fiddle great, Brittany Haas.nataliehaas.com

2016 FESTIVAL ARTISTS Yann Falquet - Acoustic Guitar, Voice, Foot-Tapping, Jaw Harp A native of Montreal, Quebec, Yann is a founding member of the Yann Falquet Quebec trad trio Genticorum and toured for three years with the award winning celtic/world group The McDades. He has taught at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick, at the Goderich Celtic College and for Alasdair Fraser’s Fiddle Train, as well as Fraser’s venerable Sierra Fiddle Camp in California. Familiar to standard tunings, alternate tunings and DADGAD styles, Yann brings much to the musical table in performance and teaching. Yann is a veteran acoustic guitar player on the burgeoning Québecois music scene and likes to explore many styles. Though primarily a trad player, he holds a Bachelor’s in Jazz Performance. Since his time in conservatory, he has developed a personal guitar style for Québecois music, inspired by the music of different cultures including Breton, Scandinavian, Irish, and North American. His involvement in the traditional music scene resulted in performing on numerous recordings, and to regularly tour throughout Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia. Christopher Layer Christopher Layer - Flutes and Pipes As a teacher of the flute and pipes, Chris has worked for Scotland’s Feis Na Gael, in the Scottish16 >>> New Harmony Music Festival & School Hebrides, The Augusta National Heritage Center, The Hamish Moore School of Piping, and countless workshops at music festivals the world over. Over the last fourteen years, Chris has toured four continents with the Trinity Irish Dance Company as their principal pipe soloist and flutist. His father is traditional fiddle great, Edwin Layer, and his mother is soprano Dolores Layer. Chris played his first professional engagement at the tender age of eleven. Since then, he has gone on to great success in the worlds of traditional and classical music at home and abroad. Since 2003, Chris has been the Artist-In-Residence for the Moab Music Festival in Moab, Utah, teaching there for ten weeks each year, and is the creator of the Moab Community Dance Band in that rural community. Layer contributed his arrangements of original and traditional music to the New York Theater’s production of “Twelfth Night” for Shakespeare In The Park in New York City, performing onstage with the company. As a sideman, he has toured, performed, and recorded with many talents in traditional, classical and modern music, most recently in the Broadway production of Sting’s “The Last Ship.” newharmonymusicfest.com

Tom McDermott - Piano One of New Orleans’ premiere piano 2016 FESTIVAL ARTISTS players and composers, Tom grew up in St. Louis, where he earned a master’s degree in music, was a music journalist for the morning Tom McDermottpaper, and soaked up the sounds of ragtime and traditional jazz thatflourished there in the 1960s and ‘70s. In 1984, spurred by his love ofJames Booker, Professor Longhair and Dr. John, he moved to New Orleans.He became a Duke of Dixieland, touring Europe, Asia, South America andthe U.S., with a stop at Carnegie Hall.Tom’s musical mastery stretches from the mid-19th-century works of LouisMoreau Gottschalk to the funky New Orleans piano of today. He has agreat love of Brazilian music, the Beatles, European classical music, earlyDuke Ellington, and much more.Tom has written for the theatre (the Obie-award-winning off-Broadwayshow, “Nita and Zita”), and appeared in bit roles in the movies (“He SaidShe Said”). In the New Orleans-based HBO series “Treme,” he playedhimself and lent his music to the soundtrack. His music has also appearedin Showtimes’ “The Knick”, and has been heard frequently on a number ofNPR programs. He has recorded 13 albums.mcdermottmusic.comSusie Petrov - Piano, Accordion, Dance Master of Ceremonies Susie Petrov After receiving music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, Temple University, and the Kodály Music Institute, Susie began July 2016 <<< 17studying Scottish music and teaching schoolkids to sing and dance. Shestarted her first Scottish music ensemble, Local Hero, with ChristopherLayer and Paul Woodiel in 1990 and has appeared at dances, festivals andin concerts in the U.S., Canada, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Franceand Scotland. Susie has given numerous workshops on Scottish music atPinewoods Camp, Ashokan Celtic Week and in towns from Saskatoon toSan Francisco.Susie has appeared onstage at the Highland Circus Music Festival with theBattlefield Band and Scots fiddler Alasdair Fraser in Ullapool, Scotland,and tutored for the Feis na Gael summer music courses in the northwestof Scotland and the Hebrides. She was a guest lecturer for the ScottishMusic course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland-Glasgow. Ms.Petrov also presents workshops for the Organization of American KodályEducators conference. She is co-director of the Kodály Music Instituteat Boston University, and a music teacher in greater Boston, with twelverecordings and two collections of Scottish music to her publication credit.susiepetrov.com

2016 FESTIVAL ARTISTS Pascal Gemme - French Canadian Fiddle/Songs Pascal Gemme is a purveyor of the indigenous fiddle and dance music of Quebec, Pascal Gemme Canada. In-keeping with this tradition, his own original compositions and his interpretations of the traditional music of his region of Quebec have Mazz Swift won him respect from the elders of his tradition. Pascal is the fiddler, singer and co-arranger of the band, Genticorum: That ensemble has recently18 >>> New Harmony Music Festival & School received acclaim in several countries. One of his two musical partners from Genticorum, aside from master flutist and bass player Alexandre de Grosbois-Garand, is Yann Falquet, our guitarist and singer this season. Pascal teaches at the Ecole des Arts de la Veillée in Montreal, as well as at workshops and master classes including the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick, Ireland, the Goderich Celtic College in Ontario, Canada, The festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend in Washington State, the Alasdair Fraser’s Fiddle Train and Sierra Fiddle Camp in California, and the Quasitrad music camp in Australia. From a young age, the fiddle music and songs of his native province of Quebec captivated him and after graduating with a degree in composition and arranging from St. Laurent College in Montreal, Canada, he immersed himself in the music, playing, collecting and recording melodies that he found in Quebec. Pascal has cultivated and shared the indigenous music of his homeland in his musical travels and is considered a leading exponent of the Quebec fiddle tradition. The festival considers him a true “bonhomme” and is grateful for his presence this week. Mazz Swift - Violin A native New Yorker, Mazz began violin at age six, studying with Elisabeth Small, Shirley Givens and Timothy Baker. She attended LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, and while there, played at New York’s Alice Tully Hall with members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. She later studied at the Juilliard School of Music. Mazz’s diverse musical interests in classical, rock, trad music, hip hop and most recently jazz, have made for a strange and wonderful life journey. She has worked with a wide variety of artists: Whitney Houston, Perry Farrell, Dee Snider, James “Blood” Ulmer, Vernon Reid, DJ Logic, William Parker, Butch Morris, Black Rock Coalition, Jason Lindner, Kanye West, Common, and Jay-Z. Her solo alias, “MazzMuse,” has performed at the National Action Network’s twentieth Annual Keepers of the Dream awards ceremony for President Obama, on the TODAY Show, NPR’s Weekend Edition, and for TEDx. In Budapest, Hungary, she is a collaborator for the project Budapest Bar; the CD “Zene/Music” on Sony Hungary is double platinum there. She served as Musical Director and Co-Curator of Fire + Fire = Gypsy Meets Black, a show exploring the musical and cultural similarities and differences between African-American music and Hungarian gypsy music. Ms. Swift recently toured West Africa with the band MATUTO. mazzmuzik.com

2016 FESTIVAL ARTISTS Martha Waldvogel-WarrenMartha Waldvogel-Warren - Harp Martha holds a Bachelor of Music in Harp Performance from Ball State University with Elizabeth Richter, and a master’s degree from the ClevelandInstitute with Alice Chalifoux. Further studies have taken her to the SalzedoHarp Colony in Camden, Maine and the Tanglewood Institute in Lenox,Massachusetts, where she studied with Lucile Lawrence.Extensive performance experience in orchestras and chamber musicensembles in the U.S. and Europe, as well as solo appearances worldwide,round out her resumé. She has produced four CDs: a trio with Swiss flutistPaul Haemig and actor Johannes Meier in a recitation of poems by HermanHesse, two duo CDs with New York flutist/piper Christopher Layerfeaturing both classical and folk music, and one solo CD.Having returned in 2007 from living in Switzerland, Martha brings backa wealth of teaching experience. Her students from Musikschule Kloten/Zurich combined with students from her private studio have given her anopportunity to form and lead several harp ensembles.Dr. ToniMarie Marchoni - Oboe Her performances praised as Dr. ToniMarie Marchoni “excellent” and “elegantly rendered” by the New York Times, oboist ToniMarie Marchioni has performed in Europe, SouthAmerica, Asia, and throughout the United States as a soloist, chambermusician, and orchestral player. Most recently, she was a featured artistat the Moab Music Festival (Utah), in Carnegie Hall’s collected storiesfestival curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, as wellas in the Stefan Wolpe Society’s concert series, Portrait of a Visionary.In 2010, she performed the Martinů Oboe Concerto with the OrquestaPhilarmónica del Ecuador, and in 2008, she gave the U.S. premiere ofJonathan Harvey’s concerto Sprechgesang for Oboe/English Horn. Amember of the IRIS Orchestra (Memphis, TN) and Decoda (New York,NY), and an alumni of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW, she has alsoappeared with the National Symphony, American Ballet Theater, OrpheusChamber Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, GeorgiaWoodwind Quintet, and Continuum Ensemble.Currently the Assistant Professor of Oboe at the University of Kentucky,Dr. Marchioni has worked as a teaching-artist with Sinfonia Por La Vida(Ecuador) and has held faculty positions at the University of Georgia, LasVegas Music Festival, and the American Festival for the Arts (Houston,TX). A native of Mechanicsburg, PA, Dr. Marchioni holds degrees fromHarvard University (BA) and The Juilliard School (MM and DMA). Thisis Dr. Marchioni’s second festival appearance, having made her festivaldebut in April of 2016 at the festival production of “From The FrenchCourt To The Cajun Kitchen”. July 2016 <<< 19

2016 FESTIVAL ARTISTS Dr. George Wolfe - Saxophone, Improv, Hindi Music Dr. Wolfe has performed throughout the United States and Dr. George Wolfe Europe, Cyprus, Costa Rica, Canada, India, Korea and Japan. He has been heard on radio stations across the U.S. and has appeared Nic Gareiss & Cleek Schrey as a soloist with such ensembles as the United States Navy Band, the Saskatoon Symphony, the World Band at Disney World, the Chautauqua20 >>> New Harmony Music Festival & School Motet Choir, the Indianapolis Children’s Choir, and the Royal Band of the Belgian Air Force. Critics have praised his playing as “brilliant and moving.” John Lambert, writing in the Winston Salem Spectator, described Wolfe’s performance as “a deeply satisfying and moving artistic experience.” His CD, Le Saxophone Mélodieux, was released in June of 2009 and the sequel, Le Saxophone Extraordinaire, became available in September of 2013. Professor Wolfe also has been an active performer of protest music. He served as director of the Ball State Center for Peace and Conflict Studies from 2002 to 2006. Arun Gandhi and peace educator Michael N. Nagler have endorsed his recently published book, The Spiritual Power of Nonviolence: Interfaith Understanding for a Future without War. He was named by national conservative commentator David Horowitz as one of the “hundred-and-one most dangerous academics in America.” Nic Gareiss(Dance) & Cleek Schrey(Fiddle)-Percussive Dance & Fiddle Michigan-born dancer Nic Gareiss has been described by the Irish Times as “the human epitome of the unbearable lightness of being,” and “the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene” by the Boston Herald. Mr. Gareiss draws from many percussive dance traditions: American, Nova Scotian, Irish, and his own. Mr. Gareiss counts among his collaborators: Frankie Gavin, Dervish, Bill Frisell, Darol Anger, Bruce Molsky, Phil Wiggins, Buille, Solas, Liz Carroll, Martin Hayes, The Gloaming and The Chieftains. Nic holds a degree in Anthropology from Central Michigan University and a MA in Ethnochoreology from the University of Limerick-Republic of Ireland. This is Mr. Gareiss’ second festival appearance, having performed on the “Christmas In Appalachia” concert/5th season launch in December of 2015. Cleek Schrey belongs to traditional music and early music communities in America, Europe and Ireland, he plays in the Ghost Trio with Ivan Goff and Iarla Ó Lionáird. His eclectic musical gifts have been a part of PioneerWorks Center for Art and Innovation in Brooklyn, Storm King Art Center, the Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Lumen Performance Art Festival, and the Bridge Progressive Art Center. Mr. Schrey has worked with choreographers Douglas Dunn and Bill T. Jones and percussive dancer, Sandy Silva. The Sound Post noted that Cleek “possesses a rare combination of traits: deep respect for traditional music and the people who make it and an unbounded curiosity about new directions for sound.” This is Mr. Schrey’s first festival appearance.

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Festival Profile - A Bicentennial Lady: Patricia Gosh, New Harmony, IN By Christopher Layer The first time I met Patricia Gosh it was a rather unseasonably cold day in September several years ago: In spite of the 40 degree, windy-yet-sunny weather, this stately lady was bravely manning her “New Harmony Time Capsule” booth at Main and Church Streets in advance of the town’s New Harmony Bicentennial Celebration, soliciting support and written contributions to a contemporary time capsule to be buried just as the century-old one was unearthed at the WMI Library grounds: In fact, I admired her Hoosier aplomb when it came to the effort: “Why dig two holes when you can just drop the new time capsule in the old hole?”, thought I. Of course, there was much more to it than that, and Mrs. Gosh, businesswoman, seamstress and wife of local businessperson and classic auto aficionado Larry Gosh, was determined to get folks involved in the project...even on a cloudless, windy, lunar-cold day in September. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has met Patricia or Larry Gosh...both of whom espouse a sort of “honest directness” that to someone not raised in New York or Los Angeles might find slightly jarring, but to this writer is both refreshing and in some ways, evocative of the Indiana that I grew up in in the 1960s and 70s. In fact to me, as a couple, they embody the sort of spirit necessary today to lift New Harmony into the future if not a fourth age of utopianism. Larry and Patricia fled California some years back, retiring from a successful construction business and settling in New Harmony at a time when the town was wanting for just the kind of folks they are: Interested, but not interfering, active but not without forethought, opinionated, but not without relevance. When I visited Patricia a few weeks back in her extraordinary, hand-built, public paean to doll-collecting at 507 main street, (Folks who would like a personal showing during festival need only call her: 812-319-5300. Indeed, Mrs. Gosh is thrilled to throw open her doors.) she was excited to share the many details of her most recent “time capsule” project of sorts: The Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay,that will unite all of our small communities across the great state of Indiana as we celebrate 200 years of statehood. Once again, Patricia is rallying the troops to insure that New Harmony and Posey County is counted among those Indiana folk who believe that “to know one’s history is to know one’s identity”. Working tirelessly with civic groups, the Boy Scouts, veteran’s groups, and a host of volunteers, Mrs. Gosh has created a wonderful network of elders, local leaders and members of our regional community to bear the honorary bicentennial torch as it passes from Mount Vernon, IN, through New Harmony, and on to Poseyville, IN on Sept. 11, 2016, complete with brass bands, fire trucks, greeters, Eagle Scouts, refreshments, and all of the trappings that speak so plainly of what it means to be proud of one’s place and one’s community, and what it means to be a “Hoosier”. And indeed, the final “Harmonista” to bear the torch from New Harmony to Poseyville will be Juanita Wyatt, our eldest, and in my opinion most distinguished community member at 99 years of age. The fact that New Harmony resident, community volunteer, wife, mother, and doll-collector, Patricia Gosh, is a cancer survivor, and a person of great inner-strength, is not lost upon this writer. Like all of us here in New Harmony, Mrs. Gosh sees each day as an opportunity, each event as a celebration of life, each moment as an affirmation of the community that she and her family call home. For more information on the Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay folks are encouraged to navigate to: www.in.gov/ibc/torchrelay on the world-wide web.30 >>> New Harmony Music Festival & School

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