Sidney Pink is an intermedia artist focused on drawings as experimental scores, notation, maps, graphs, and documentation. He often works collaboratively with dancers, musicians, and sound artists to create installations, performances, and interactive events.
Carrie Fucile is an interdisciplinary artist and experimental musician whose work is frequently performative and collaborative. She is first and foremost a sound artist, but often incorporates movement and physical materials into her process. Her creative efforts interpret the effects of political power, technological shifts, and global economics on the human condition. Ultimately each piece explores traces of these events found in objects, architecture, and landscapes.
I earned an B.A. in music composition at Washington College and an M.F.A. in studio art at Towson University. My process begins with drawing and/or sound, and usually ends with animation.
Nicole A.
Children from Brussels to California and New York to Texas delight in Val's adult befuddlement and Silly Goose's impishness. Award-winning artist Valerie Leonhart Smalkin presents a fast-paced, humorous 40-minute musical treat with puppets, ventriloquism, dancing, singing, and 100% audience participation, for adults and children alike. Her award-winning songs and performances are guaranteed to delight tots, tweens, teens, and retirees, as well!
Sahffi Lynne is an international singer/songwriter, musician and private voice teacher who considers her musical offerings medicine to open and connect hearts around the world. She leads a pathway for healing with her original channeled music and guides those ready to release their authentic voice and their fears using her own “Vocal Ladder” teaching method.
Renowned for her beautiful tone and elegant playing, guitarist Candice Mowbray captivates audiences with her expressive artistry. From the lively acrobatics of Ida Presti’s Danse rythmique to the poignant depths of Fernando Sor’s Fantaisie élégiaque, her performances are a thoughtful journey through modern and classic works. A famous ballerina remarked that her music, “makes me want to dance!” while guitar virtuoso John Feeley praised her as "a beautiful player, so expressive and musical."
Baltimore based pianist and award-winning composer. He and his ensembles have performed at Blues Alley, the Kennedy Center, and many festivals and venues from San Francisco to New York. He was selected to be part of the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center as well as residencies at The Banff Centre, Millay Arts and the Avaloch Music Institute.
Performance:
Greg Latta is a mesmerizing singer, songwriter, and award winning performer on the hammered dulcimer, banjo, guitar, ukulele, Irish bouzouki, cittern, harmonica, recorder, Appalachian dulcimer, Northumbrian smallpipes, uilleann pipes,and keyboard.
Greg is a three time winner of the prestigious Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Solo Music Performance, having won in 2012, 2015, and 2018.
TWO-TIME GRAMMY® Award Winners, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer are an eclectic folk festival on their own terms. Their superb harmonies are backed by instrumental virtuosity on the guitar, five-string banjo, ukulele, mandolin, and cello-banjo. The duo has released 48 recordings, won recognition as both songwriters and tradition bearers, and opened doors for countless other musicians. From social justice to the history of women in country music, Django style jazz to bluegrass, and old- time music, they are a rare eclectic duo that ties it all together-past, present, and future.