Belgian-born Paul Oorts performs on harp guitar, 10-string cittern, mandolin, and musette accordion most often with his wife, hammered dulcimer player Karen Ashbrook.
He is very active in the world of English, Contra, and Vintage dances in the DC-Baltimore area. With the trio Goldcrest he has performed at dance events all over the US.
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Dereje Demissie, Weldegeorgis (1982) made his BFA in 2012, in Painting and in Mural arts in 2002 from Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was one of the founders of Nubia Visual Art Studio. Dereje has participated in group exhibitions in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Dubai, Germany and here in USA and has had seven solo shows, including the Modern Art Museum of Gebre Kristo Desta in2022 and the National Museum of Ethiopia in 2013.
Karen Collins & The Backroads Band is a DC area honky tonk country band lead by Karen Collins, a coal miner’s daughter from Southwest VA . With Karen on vocals and rhythm guitar, the band features Ira Gitlin (lead guitar & vocals), James Key(bass) and Pat Puglisi (drums & vocals).
Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union, (winner of the 2019 Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, Mad Creek Books) and Haint, (winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry, Gival Press, 2016). She was awarded the Poetry Society of America's 2020 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and is the recipient of grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and The Freya Project.