SUMMER FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
CENTRUM WASHINGTON’S HOME FOR CREATIVE ARTS AND EDUCATION
Moira Smiley
JUNE 23-28
Voice Works
JUNE 28 -JULY 5 Festival of American
Fiddle Tunes
Suzy Thompson, Artistic Director
JULY 9-19
Port Townsend
Writers’ Conference Erin Belieu, Artistic Director
Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA
welcome to centrum Welcome to Centrum’s 42nd Summer Season! In partnership with Fort Worden State Park, Centrum serves as a gathering place for creative artists and learners of all ages seeking extraordinary cultural enrichment. OUR MISSION is to foster creative experiences that change lives. From exploring the roots of the blues or jazz, to the traditions of American fiddle music or our award-winning writers’ workshops—Centrum’s summer festivals transform the majestic, inspired setting of Fort Worden State Park into a unique arts destination. JOIN US and discover a full array of mainstage performances, nightclub events, vital literary readings, lectures, dances and more. OUR PROGRAMS welcome participants from across the globe. Last year alone we served individuals from 17 countries, 46 out of 50 states, and 77% of the counties in Washington. 27% of those we serve are age 18 or younger and our participants were aged 4 to 97!
Meghan Yates & The Reverie Machine will be performing at the July 17 Free Fridays at the Fort concert.
Free Fridays line up Bring a picnic blanket and some low-back chairs and enjoy Centrum’s annual Free Fridays at the Fort series, showcasing jazz, blues, and fiddle tunes performers among many others. This lunchtime concert series on the lawn of the Nora Porter Commons is free to the public. In the rare event of inclement weather, alternative plans will be posted on Centrum’s website.
Friday, June 26, Noon
Friday, July 24, Noon
We present our programs with support from the Washington State Arts Commission, State Parks Commission, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, National Endowment for the Arts and the Fort Worden Public Development Authority. We thank the many donors and generous sponsors who support Centrum and our unique role in our Puget Sound community, and I hope you will too!
Pies on the Run
Jazz Port Townsend Big Band
Please join us for cultural experiences you simply cannot find anywhere else on earth. See you this summer at Centrum!
Meg Yates & The Reverie Machine
Friday, July 3, Noon
Fiddle Festival Showcase Friday, July 10, Noon
Eduardo Mendonça
directed by Clarence Acox
Friday, July 31, Noon
Port Townsend Acoustic Blues featuring American Songsters Joe Hunter and Joe Seamons
(Brazilian Music)
Friday, July 17, Noon
Free Fridays Family Concerts are made possible with the generous support of the Congdon Hanson Family and the following sponsors: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Centrum’s 2015 Event Schedule
Centrum offers profound thanks to the foundation and government entities that support our distinctive mission. Their grants help fuel our programming, and their imprimatur assists Centrum’s efforts to broaden support for its services throughout the state and nation.
JUNE
Voice Works Friday, June 26, 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 27, 5:30 PM
Global Resonance Wheeler Theater
Honky Tonk Polka Dot Dinner & Dance, USO Building JULY
Festival of American Fiddle Tunes
Port Townsend Writers’ Conference
Jazz Port Townsend
Friday, July 3, 1:30 PM
Sunday, July 12, 7:15 PM
Friday, July 24, 7:30 PM
Fiddles on Fire McCurdy Pavilion
Gary Copeland Lilley & Jimmy Kimbrell
Friday, July 3, 7:30 PM
Monday, July 13, 7 PM
Maucha Adnet & Trio: Bossa Always Nova Regina Carter & Friends
North and South McCurdy Pavilion
Wendy Call & Pam Houston
Saturday, July 4, 1:30 PM
Claire Davis & Kim Addonizio
Fiddles on the Fourth McCurdy Pavilion
Wednesday, July 15, 7 PM
Tuesday, July 14, 7 PM
Participant Reading
Thursday, July 16, 7 PM Skip Horack & Luis Urrea
Friday, July 17, 7 PM Melissa Febos & Erin Belieu
Saturday, July 18, 7 PM An Evening with Joseph Stroud AUGUST
McCurdy Pavilion
Saturday, July 25, 1:30 PM Trio da Paz Kim Nazarian & Friends All-Star Big Band
Saturday, July 25, 7:30 PM Latitude Adjustment Sit Down, Hang On
Thursday, July 23, 8 PM, Friday & Saturday, July 24-25, 10 PM Jazz in the Clubs
Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival
Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival
Wednesday, July 29, 7:30 PM
Saturday, August 1, 1:30 PM
Rag, Blues & Zydeco Dance USO Building
Acoustic Blues Showcase McCurdy Pavilion
Centrum’s corporate sponsors include regional, national, and international corporations that understand the value of supporting the arts. Their contributions foster the creativity and sense of kinship that has thousands of workshop participants and audience members converging for Centrum’s 2015 Summer Season.
Friday, July 31, & Saturday, August 1, 8 PM
OCTOBER
Blues in the Clubs
Port Townsend Ukulele Festival Saturday, October 10, 7:30 PM
Saturday, October 17, 7:30 PM
Ukulele Bonanza One Wheeler Theater
Ukulele Bonanza Two Wheeler Theater
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voice works Welcome to Voice Works, folks! Voice Works is a five-day gathering of singers where participants learn about breathing, phrasing, dynamics, vocal blending, and harmony singing. They also learn new songs, connect with new friends, and have a lot of fun, working with a superb international faculty. The public performances at Voice Works are the culmination of the workshop, and this year you’ll have two opportunities to see what we’ve been doing. The Friday night show in the Wheeler Theater features five masters of traditional song. You’ll hear old (and new) music in at least five languages including English, Irish, Spanish, Bulgarian, and French – a unique showcase sure to please your heart and ears. Saturday night, it’s our annual Polka Dot dance – wear some dots and your dancing shoes! The Caleb Klauder Country Band will be the “house band” for Voice Works faculty — Reeb Willms, Pharis and Jason Romero, Laurel Bliss, Eli West, and a host of others. The night also includes a Mexican dance set with La Familia Govea, and dinner-hour jazz sets with Jennifer Scott and Pamela Bertoli. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. so you’ll have time to enjoy a fried chicken dinner and our beer garden. There is something so personal about listening to someone sing. The emotional vulnerability of the singer sometimes feels to me like a sonic kiss. We hope you’ll get plenty of lovin’ at these shows.
Peter McCracken VOICE WORKS PROGRAM MANAGER
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Featured Performers BRITISH COLUMBIA Jennifer Scott Jennifer Scott is a Vancouver-born vocalist and jazz pianist specializing in jazz, blues and world music. Jennifer is considered one of the most important jazz artists working in Canada and the United States today. From sold-out concerts in San Francisco to exclusive local club performances, her performance experiences have been varied. Jennifer has appeared at Jazz Festivals all across Canada and in several of the United States. She has also appeared with such jazz luminaries as Tommy Banks, Don Thompson, Kenny Wheeler, Skywalk, and Hugh Fraser. Jennifer is especially known for her teaching ability.
Pharis Romero A singer, songwriter, guitarist and teacher, Pharis Romero is a Voice Works favorite. A native of Horsefly, British Columbia, Pharis developed her love of new and old songs through both classical training and older tradition-bearers. She has performed and instructed throughout the U.S. and U.K. Currently, Pharis writes, records, performs (and makes banjos) with husband Jason Romero. Their triumphant first album, A Passing Glimpse, won the Americana Album of the Year at the 2012 Independent Music Awards; their second release Long Gone Out West Blues earned them Traditional Singer of the Year at the 2013 Canadian Folk Music Awards. They released their third album, A Wanderer I’ll Stay, in March 2015.
CALIFORNIA Pamela Bertoli Pamela Bertoli has taught vocal development and performance at the National Guitar Workshop, the Augusta Heritage Center and the Telluride Blues and Brews Acoustic Blues Camp. She studied with classically trained singer Raymond Smolover, and is co-author of Sing Your Best, 7 Vocal Exercises That Really Work. She loves to sing in many styles and has performed as a singer songwriter, solo acoustic blues artist, and as a member of the country band Trainwreck.
La Familia Peña-Govea Miguel Govea and Susan Peña, along with their daughters Rene and Cecilia, began making joyful music as a family more than 30 years ago. La Familia Peña–Govea has since brought their gift to venues as varied as Davies Symphony Hall and San Quentin Prison, from the streets of Bakersfield to the pubs of Donegal, and to countless festivals, weddings, baptisms, funerals, libraries, classrooms, hospital wards, and backyard barbecues. Their infectious music raises the spirits, and creates an irresistible urge to dance and sing and join in the fun. They all sing, and Miguel plays the trumpet and button accordion, Susan plays guitar, Rene plays accordion and guitarron, and Cecilia plays trumpet and percussion.
Moira Smiley Moira Smiley is a singer and composer who travels the world as a soloist and musical director. A musical polyglot and vocal shape-shifter, her voice – and composing – can be heard on feature films, BBC & PBS television programs, NPR, and on more than 60 albums. She tours regularly with her group VOCO and has sung with leading vocal artists around the world including: Paul Hillier’s Theater of Voices, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, KITKA and New World Symphony. Moira is an extremely experienced teacher. She takes a multicultural approach to teaching vocals, and consistently inspires her charges with traditional and freeform exercises that expand vocal possibilities in a fun and supportive environment.
IRELAND Cathy Jordan Born in Scramogue, County Roscommon, Cathy Jordan is the youngest of seven children. Her love for traditional singing and music was instilled at a young age and both were abundant in her life growing up. Her parents were both singers as were her siblings. Cathy herself had a repertoire at the age of three. Along with traditional music, Cathy was exposed to a cornucopia of world music thanks to the vast collection of recordings sent by family and friends in America. In 1991, she joined Sligo-based band, Dervish, and started her recording career with their album Harmony Hill to huge critical acclaim. This sparked a musical journey that has spanned over two decades and 40 countries.
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June 23-28 LOUISIANA Cedric Watson One of the brightest young talents to emerge in Cajun, Creole and Zydeco music over the last decade, Cedric Watson is a four-time Grammy-nominated fiddler, singer, accordionist and songwriter with seemingly unlimited potential. Originally from San Felipe, Texas, Cedric made his first appearance at the age of 19 at the Zydeco Jam at The Big Easy in Houston. Two years later, he moved to Southern Louisiana, quickly immersing himself in French music and language. Over the next several years, Cedric performed French music in 17 countries and on seven fulllength albums with various groups, including the Pine Leaf Boys, Corey Ledet, Les Amis Creole with Ed Poullard and J.B. Adams, and with his own group, Bijou Creole.
OREGON Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms Caleb Klauder has made his mark with a notable perspective on country music in the new century, melding Nashville-quality songwriting with a love for early country, bluegrass and oldtime music. He possesses an authentic, warm and happily ragged vocal style, and is a dynamite mandolin player. He plays with The Foghorn Stringband, The Cajun Country Revival, and leads the Caleb Klauder Country Band. Singer and guitarist Reeb Willms was raised on her family’s wheat farm on the high and dry plains of Central Washington. She is a true and vulnerable vocalist, with a sweet knack for harmonizing. Reeb now lives in Oregon and plays with the high octane Foghorn Stringband. Preceding that, she sang and played with The Shadies out of Bellingham, Washington. Caleb and Reeb have also been honing their captivating duets, on and off stage. They appear as a musical duo, notably at The Portland Old Time Music Gathering, and at the rollicking 2012 Blackpot Festival in Lafayette, Louisiana. Caleb and Reeb seem only to gain momentum, artistic depth and humor from their time on the road.
Performance Schedule Friday, June 26, 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 27, 5:30 PM
Global Resonance
Honky Tonk Polka Dot Dinner & Dance
Wheeler Theater, $20 Masters of International Traditional Song: Appalachian Ballads with Elizabeth LaPrelle; Eastern European with Moira Smiley; Creole French with Cedric Watson; Traditional Mexican with La Familia Govea; Irish Folk with Cathy Jordan, and more! Purchase tickets online at Centrum.org or call (800) 746-1982.
USO, Fort Worden, $10 at the door Fried chicken dinner and beer garden featuring jazz sets with Jennifer Scott and Pamela Bertoli. Caleb Klauder Country Band featuring Reeb Willms and special guest Casey MacGill; Pharis & Jason Romero; Laurel Bliss; Eli West; and a Mexican dance set with La Familia Govea.
VIRGINIA Elizabeth LaPrelle Elizabeth LaPrelle has been performing Appalachian ballads and old-time songs since age 11. Her magnificent voice, her respect for the songs, and her authentic mountain sound and style brought her to the attention of first Ginny Hawker and then Sheila Kay Adams. Raised in Rural Retreat, Virginia, Elizabeth attended old time fiddlers’ conventions and sang harmonies with her family, who taught her traditional singing styles and encouraged her to sing their own favorite American folk music. She received her undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary with a major in Southern Appalachian Traditional Performance, and now tours the U.S. regularly both performing and teaching.
WASHINGTON Laurel Bliss Bellingham, Washington vocalist and dobro player Laurel Bliss was exposed early in her life to the Carter Family, Doc Watson, the Louvin Brothers, and Jimmy Martin. That exposure has inspired a lifelong dedication to unearthing and learning vocal chestnuts. Laurel has a composed, straightforward, yet tender approach to singing, which suggests an earlier era. She played dobro and sang in Southfork in the 1980s, and has performed for many years in a duo with Cliff Perry. Her heartfelt vocals have made her a stand-out in acoustic and bluegrass circles. The joys of playing by ear and learning to sing with others have shaped her approach to music.
Casey MacGill Casey MacGill performs music that swings. Nat “King” Cole Trio meets the Mills Brothers. Fats Waller meets Fats Domino. Slim Galliard meets Fred Astaire. At the core of his sound are his creative vocal arrangements – sometimes sweet, sometimes rough-hewn three-part harmonies. It’s American music of many decades and no decade in particular, all happening at the same time, woven into a seamless, beautiful whole. Casey is a classic Hollywood character in appearance and style. He plays boogie-woogie, swing, and stride piano, blows a lyrical jazz cornet, and his most unique instrumental voice is a 6-string tenor ukulele. He has been singing and arranging vocal harmonies for over 40 years, in a career that stretches from Los Angeles, to Spokane, Washington, to Broadway, and finally to Seattle.
Eli West Eli West is a Seattle-based multi-instrumental musician and graphic designer. He plays guitar, banjo, and bouzouki with both Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project and John Reischman and the Pine Siskens, but he’s probably most known for his work with Cahalen Morrison. They’ve made three great records together, and regularly tour throughout the US and Europe. His singing with Cahalen on these recordings reveals the warm glow of his voice, and taps the root of the old country and bluegrass duets. Tim O’Brien says, “Music like this doesn’t come along very often. This stuff just reassures me.” Eli is one of the most innovative and subtle roots musicians playing today.
Cathy Jordan
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fIddle tunes Welcome to Fiddle Tunes! Fiddle Tunes is a celebration of the passing down of music from generation to generation and a joyful (some might even say Dionysian) annual gathering of far-flung friends, both old and new. From Denmark to Louisiana, from Vermont to Mexico, the men and women on the Fiddle Tunes faculty are all important bearers of their particular regional traditions, and many have enriched their tradition with original compositions. The joy and generosity with which they share their music with us and with each other continues to amaze me. This year’s faculty is family reunion of sorts, including a grandmother and grandson (Vesta Johnson and Steve Hall), a sister and brother (Rose Conway and Brian Flanagan), a father and his sons (Don Pedro, Hermenegildo and Miguel Dimas), a husband and wife (Kinnon and Betty Lou Beaton). Christine Balfa follows in the footsteps of her father, the visionary Cajun fiddler Dewey Balfa, whose presence at the very first Fiddle Tunes helped set the course for what has become a life-changing experience for thousands of people over the decades. And speaking of generosity, we also wish to acknowledge Ed Littlefield, who has been a member of the Fiddle Tunes family from the beginning. He takes an active role here whether contra dancing, playing pedal steel with the Cajun band, or (my personal favorite) strolling under the trees playing his bagpipes. Our heartfelt thanks to this stalwart and true friend of Centrum and of Fiddle Tunes. Let the wild rumpus start!
Suzy Thompson
Anya Burgess
NEW ENGLAND Rodney Miller & Sandy Bradley Rodney Miller was designated a “Master Fiddler” in 1983 by the National Endowment for the Arts. He is widely considered to be the foremost exponent of New England style fiddling, a uniquely American blend of French Canadian and Celtic influences. Over the past 35 years, he has toured the U.S., British Isles, Australia and Denmark, performed and taught at hundreds of music and dance festivals, and recorded over 10 fiddle albums. In 1999, Rodney represented the state of New Hampshire, playing traditional fiddle music at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. He has also appeared on Garrison Keillor’s National Public Radio show “A Prairie Home Companion” and performed live with the Twyla Tharp Modern Dance Company. He’ll be accompanied by the Northwest’s own Sandy Bradley, who has been bringing music and community together for over 40 years, via Koleda, Radost, the Gypsy Gyppo String Band, the Folklife instrument auction, and 13 years on NPR’s Potluck.
KENTUCKY Bruce Greene & John Haywood
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Bruce Greene has lived and worked among the people of Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina for more than 35 years, bringing to his playing the intimacy and dignity he absorbed through his apprenticeships with musicians born as far back as the 1880’s. This foundation helped him build a style and repertoire unlike any other. John Haywood is an award-winning artist and banjo player born and raised in Floyd County, Kentucky. He attended the Old Regular Baptist Church with his papaw, McIntire Risner, where he heard him sing the old unaccompanied songs of Zion. He learned to play the banjo from George Gibson, of Knott County, and has become fluent in the different styles of the region.
DENMARK Kristian Bugge, Morten Alfred Høirup & Sonnich Lydom Fiddler Kristian Bugge has studied musical styles from all over Denmark, and won wide acclaim for his repertoire and his style of play. In 2006, he received two Danish Music Awards, “Debut of the Year” and “Danish Folk Instrumentalists of the Year.” Button accordionist Sonnich Lydom is a master of Irish, FrenchCanadian and Danish traditional music, most known for his work with bands like Dronningens Livstykke, Marianne Green, and ULC. Morten Alfred Høirup, one of the world’s most respected rhythm guitarists, has traveled the globe performing traditional and newly composed music. He’s received several Danish Music Awards: Danish People’s Composer of the Year (2004) and the Honorary Award (2012). These three players together form essentially a supergroup of traditional music from Denmark.
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June 28 - July 5 NEW ORLEANS Shaye Cohn & John James
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Shaye Cohn is not known as a fiddler. She’s mostly known as the energetic cornet player and arranger for the astonishing New Orleans street band, Tuba Skinny, an eight-piece traditional jazz outfit that has traveled the world. Last year they garnered the coveted “Best of the Beat” award for “Best Traditional Jazz Album” for their recording Owl Call Blues. The things she brings to that band - an instinctive understanding of rhythmic possibilities, the blues “feeling,” the discovery of long-forgotten gems from recordings made by jazz bands and string bands and jug bands 80 to 90 years ago – are the things that make her a blues fiddler. She’s a musician’s musician. Shaye will be accompanied by John James Tourville, highly sought-after multi-instrumentalist who currently plays pedal steel with The Deslondes.
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QUEBEC Lisa Ornstein, Andre Marchand & Normand Miron Le Bruit Court dans la Ville (The Buzz Around Town) brings together three legendary musicians from the Québécois folk scene. Between them, they have been on the roster of virtually every ground-breaking band over the past 30 years. Fiddle virtuoso Lisa Ornstein and guitarist/vocalist André Marchand first met as bandmates in La Bottine Souriante, Quebec’s longest-running powerhouse super group. Button accordionist/ singer Normand Miron and André were longtime bandmates in Les Charbonniers de l’enfer (The Coalmen from Hell), an award-winning acapella singing ensemble. Lisa, André and Normand have been playing as a trio since the 1990s, delighting audiences with their fiery dance music and finely-wrought vocals. When these three master musicians and very good friends play la musique du Québec the stage becomes a kitchen party, infused with their love of the music and their joy in playing together.
IRISH Brian Conway, Rose Conway Flanagan & Mark Simos The winner of the All-Ireland senior championship of 1986, Brian Conway’s early studies were with his father Jim and with Limerick born fiddler/teacher Martin Mulvihill. However, it was the legendary fiddler and composer Martin Wynne who taught him the real secrets of the County Sligo style. Later, Brian met and befriended the great Andy McGann of New York a direct student of Michael Coleman, who further shaped his precision and skill on the instrument. Brian’s sister, Rose Conway Flanagan, originally began Irish music lessons with Martin Mulvihill while growing up in the Bronx. She further developed her New York Sligo style of fiddling with the help of family friend and mentor Martin Wynne and her brother Brian. They’ll be accompanied by Mark Simos on guitar.
GEORGIA Frank Maloy & Mick Kinney Frank Maloy was born in Georgia in 1927 into a family in which nearly everyone played string instruments. He played music from the 40s (with the Maloy Brothers) to the 50s ten-year stint on TV and radio with Gene Stripling’s band to the 60s (The Swingmasters) to the 80s (beach rock and roll). Over time Frank became proficient on guitar, mandolin, bass, saxophone and clarinet, in addition to the fiddle. He will be accompanied by Mick Kinney, who’s been playing traditional music for 35 years. He has been fortunate to learn from Northeast Georgia fiddlers Ben Entriken, Curley Parker, Fonzie Kennimore, and Opel McMichen. He calls his favorite style of playing “Deep South,” which spans Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
CALIFORNIA Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin
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fIddle tunes Performance Schedule Friday, July 3, 1:30 PM
Saturday, July 4, 1:30 PM
Fiddles on Fire
Fiddles on the Fourth
McCurdy Pavilion, $15-28 New England: Rodney Miller & Sandy Bradley; Kentucky: Bruce Greene & John Haywood; Denmark: Kristian Bugge, Morten Alfred Høirup & Sonnich Lydom; New Orleans: Shaye Cohn & John James; Quebec: Lisa Ornstein, Andre Marchand & Normand Miron
McCurdy Pavilion, $15-28 Cape Breton, Nova Scotia: Kinnon & Betty Lou Beaton; California: Suzy Thompson & friends; Bluegrass: Billy Baker, Jack Hinshelwood & friends; Missouri: Vesta Johnson & Steve Hall; Michoacan, Mexico: Don Pedro Dimas, Miguel Dimas, & Hermenegildo Dimas
Friday, July 3, 7:30 PM
North & South McCurdy Pavilion, $15-28 Irish: Brian Conway, Rose Conway Flanagan & Mark Simos; Georgia: Frank Maloy & Mick Kinney; California: Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin; Washington: Ruthie Dornfeld; Scotland: Calum MacKinnon & Lisa Scott; Louisiana Cajuns: Anya Burgess, Kristi Guillory, Christine Balfa & friends
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WASHINGTON Ruthie Dornfeld Purchase tickets online at Centrum.org or call (800) 746-1982.
Fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld’s big tone, fierce rhythm and fluid style, along with a wildly eclectic repertoire, have won her popularity among dancers and concert audiences alike. Fluent in a wide range of traditional styles (Irish, American old-time, Scandinavian and Eastern European, for starters), she has performed and taught for over 40 years throughout the U.S. and abroad, from the Manaus Opera house in the Brazilian Amazon to the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. Ruthie started out on classical violin in Corvallis, Oregon, then discovered fiddle music at age 18 and hit the road running. During a 15 year sojourn in New England, she studied jazz at Berklee College of Music, became a renowned dance fiddler, played in the stringband the Poodles, and founded The American Cafe Orchestra with Danish guitarist Morten Alfred Høirup, with whom she toured for a decade and recorded several groundbreaking albums.
SCOTLAND Calum MacKinnon & Lisa Scott Born in Scotland to Hebridean parents, Calum spent his early years growing up on the Isle of Tiree. He started fiddling at eight years old and made his first broadcast performance on BBC Radio at age 12. As a young engineer, Calum came to America in 1966, and today, having “given up Boeing for bowing,” is a full time fiddler. The infectious energy and sensitivity of Calum’s playing makes him highly sought after as a performer and a teacher. He was the runner up in the 1988 U.S. Scottish Fiddling national championships, has since judged the Nationals on five occasions and has coached several National Champions. Calum will be accompanied by one of his favorite piano players, Portland’s Lisa Scott.
LOUISIANA CAJUNS Anya Burgess, Kristi Guillory, Christine Balfa & friends Three-time Grammy-nominated Anya Burgess is one of the most important figures in South Louisiana fiddle culture. Anya is a renowned luthier and she owns and operates a violin shop, SOLA Violins, in downtown Lafayette. Anya’s fiddling and singing is powerful, rich and infused with a deep reverence for the old ways of doing things. The folk music world knows Kristi Guillory as a veteran Cajun accordion player and front-woman for the mostly-girl Cajun band “Bonsoir, Catin.” A poet and songsmith, Kristi has been composing original material in both Cajun French and in English for over 20 years. Christine Balfa is one of the most respected and revered Cajun rhythm guitarists and singers. She is an inspired musician, fueled by her passion for her culture and the Balfa family legacy. These three friends do more than play rockin’ Cajun dance music. They’re also role models for young girls and women who might want to play. Please don’t underestimate this influence – it’s extremely powerful, and frankly, awesome.
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June 28 - July 5 CAPE BRETON, NOVA SCOTIA Kinnon & Betty Lou Beaton Kinnon and Betty Lou Beaton are renowned masters of the Cape Breton Scottish tradition. Kinnon Beaton comes from a long line of fiddlers from the Mabou area. His fiddling, like that of his late father Donald Angus, is rich in the Mabou Coal Mines flavor. Beaton is very much in demand at dances and concerts from Cape Breton to Boston and every place in between. He’s a prolific composer as his fiddle tunes can be found on numerous Cape Breton fiddle recordings including his own. Betty Lou Beaton is Kinnon’s wife and Buddy’s MacMaster’s youngest sister. The upright piano arrived in the MacMaster home in the early thirties, shipped to the tiny village of Judique by train, arriving on the Judique Flyer complete with a cardboard chart showing the black and white keys and the names of the notes. Betty Lou accompanied some of the island’s finest players, including her brother Buddy, Dan R. MacDonald, and her niece Natalie MacMaster.
CALIFORNIA Suzy Thompson & friends Suzy Thompson, the Artistic Director for the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, has been a leading force in many influential roots music groups, including the California Cajun Orchestra, the Blue Flame String Band, Klezmorim, the all-woman Any Old Time String Band, and most recently, the Bluegrass Intentions. She has also worked with Laurie Lewis, Maria Muldaur, Jody Stecher, Del Rey, Geoff Muldaur, Alice Gerrard, and the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band, among many others. Suzy is one of just a handful of active players who have mastered the acoustic blues violin, following in the footsteps of Lonnie Chatmon, Clifford Hayes and Eddie Anthony. And she’s a powerful singer in the styles of Memphis Minnie and Bessie Smith. She’s known for her ability to fiddle and sing at the same time.
BLUEGRASS Billy Baker, Jack Hinshelwood & friends Billy Baker, born in 1936 in Pound, Virginia, has lived his whole life surrounded by music. Encouraged by his parents, both banjo players, Baker has proved to be a musical prodigy. He learned to play the banjo at age four and the fiddle at age six, and was soon playing with his father at local dances. In the early 1950s, he began playing professionally with local bands, and soon became established in a new, lively, progressive kind of hillbilly music known as bluegrass. Billy has played and recorded with many of bluegrass’s finest musicians, including Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, the Bluegrass Kinsmen, Alex Campbell, Kentucky Grass, Del McCoury, and Earl Taylor. Billy’s apprentice, Jack Hinshelwood, of Montgomery County, is an award-winning fiddler, multi-instrumentalist, and music scholar in his own right. When Jack isn’t tearing it up on stage with his band the Celtibillies or holding down a local jam session, he can be found serving as executive director of the Crooked Road, Virginia’s world-renowned music heritage trail.
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Vesta Johnson & Steve Hall Vesta Johnson, born 1922, says “I started playing fiddle at age seven. I learned from my mother at home, and I learned from my dad and other fiddlers from the area. My dad once handed me the fiddle when he was playing at a house party and told me to play a couple of tunes, which I did. I don’t remember ever being asked again.” Born and raised in Missouri, she currently resides in Kirkwood, where she plays with her grandson and accomplished guitarist, Steve Hall. Vesta began giving fiddle lessons out of her home in the late 1980s and continues to take on apprentices. She is a self-declared “crooked fiddler,” and she’s known for her vast repertoire of Missouri fiddling tunes, particularly dances tunes, including hoe-downs, hornpipes, two steps, waltzes and schottisches.
MICHOACAN, MEXICO Don Pedro Dimas, Miguel Dimas & Hermenegildo Dimas The music that Don Pedro plays with his family stringband, “Mirando el Lago” (Gazing at the Lake), is traditional indigenous music from the Purepecha communities of Michoacán. Don Pedro and his family are from Ichupio, a small village community made up of houses sprinkled on the hillside above Lake Pátzcuaro. He is a master violinist and composer in the music and dance traditions from that region, traditions are still a vital part of everyday life for the Purepecha people. Don Pedro will be accompanied by his sons, Miguel on vihuela and Hermenegildo on guitar and tololoche.
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Writer s Conference Erin Belieu, Artistic Director
Welcome to the heart of the Pacific Northwest literary scene! Experience the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference at a deeper level, as a writing participant. With a focus on community and rigorous attention to craft, the Conference offers morning workshops, residencies, guided freewrites, and vibrant readings and lectures presented by vital, contemporary writers. Whether you’re new to writing and seeking an inspirational environment in which to create; looking for advanced postMFA revision workshops; or simply desire to renew and recharge yourself in a writing retreat; for 40 years the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference has provided you with the craft and connections to make breakthroughs in your work – and your life! Want to be refreshed in the writing life, but don’t have the time in your schedule to attend the full session? Discover the Conference’s afternoon workshop sessions and connect with writers from all over the country in literary fiction, nonfiction and poetry forms, as well as cross-genre offerings and workshops in special topics. Learn more at Centrum. org/writers.
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Conference Faculty POETRY ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Joseph Stroud Joseph Stroud is the author of five books of poetry: In the Sleep of Rivers (Capra Press), Signatures (BOA Editions), Below Cold Mountain (Copper Canyon Press), Country of Light (Copper Canyon Press), and the most recent, Of This World, New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press), which won the 2010 San Francisco Poetry Center Award for the outstanding book of poetry by an American poet. It was also a finalist for the PEN Literary Award USA and the Commonwealth California Book of the Year. His work has earned a Pushcart Prize. In 2006, he received the Witter Bynner Fellowship in Poetry from the Library of Congress and in 2011, he was given the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In the fall of 2014 he received the prestigious Lannan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry.
Erin Belieu Erin Belieu, Centrum’s Artistic Director for the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, is the author of three collections of poetry. Her first book, Infanta, was a winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Hayden Carruth. Infanta was also chosen as a best book of the year by The Washington Post and Library Journal. Her second collection, One Above & One Below, was the winner of the Midland Authors Prize in poetry and the Ohioana prize, and her most recent collection, Black Box, was a finalist in 2007 for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In addition, she is the co-founder and co-director of VIDA, a literary organization that seeks to explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women. Belieu’s fourth collection, Slant Six, is an inundation of the humor and horror in contemporary American life—recently featured in The New York Times.
Kim Addonizio & Gary Copeland Lilley Kim Addonizio attended college in San Francisco, earning both her BA and MA from San Francisco State University, and has spent much of her adult life in the Bay Area. Addonizio has received numerous awards for her work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award. Addonizio’s poetry, known for its gritty, street-wise narrators and a wicked sense of wit, has received significant recognition since it 1994’s The Philosopher’s Club, a collection of unflinching poems on subjects ranging from mortality to love. Other books include Jimmy & Rita, Tell Me, and What is This Thing Called Love. Gary Copeland Lilley is the author of four collections of poetry: Black Poem, Alpha Zulu, The Reprehensibles, and The Subsequent Blues. Lilley has been a poet-in-residence at WritersCorps, Young Chicago Authors, and The Poetry Center of Chicago, and received the DC Commission on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. He currently lives in North Carolina.
Jimmy Kimbrell Born in Jackson, Mississippi, James Kimbrell received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia and a PhD from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven (1998), which was chosen by poet Charles Wright for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books, and My Psychic (2006). Poetry Foundation described the works in The Gatehouse Heaven thusly: “by turns plain and ornate, literal-minded and highly stylized, Kimbrell’s poems mediate the claims of dream and memoir, romantic vision and drab reality, the sacred and profane.” He and artist Yu Jung-yul co-translated the collection Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-Seon, and Choi Young-Mi (2002). Kimbrell has received a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship, a Ruth Lilly Prize, and a Whiting Writers’ Award.
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July 9-19 FICTION ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Skip Horack Skip Horack is the author of the story collection The Southern Cross (2009), winner of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2008 Bakeless Fiction Prize. The contest was judged by Antonya Nelson who called the story collection "a knockout winner." Hailed as a "storyteller of uncommon talent", Horack's stories are "artfully evoked and deeply felt" and depict characters that are "vital, funny, and heartbreakingly human.” His novel The Eden Hunter (2010), is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. His work has also appeared in Oxford American, the Saturday Evening Post, Epoch, The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. He is a former Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, where he was also a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His novel The Other Joseph will be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2015, and he is currently an assistant professor at Florida State University specializing in fiction and creative nonfiction writing.
Free Readings All readings are free and open to the public. All readings are held at the Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park with the exception of the Participant Reading on Wednesday, July 15.
Sunday, July 12, 7:15 PM
Thursday, July 16, 7 PM
Gary Copeland Lilley & Jimmy Kimbrell
Skip Horack & Luis Urrea
Monday, July 13, 7 PM
Melissa Febos & Erin Belieu
Friday, July 17, 7 PM
Wendy Call & Pam Houston
Tuesday, July 14, 7 PM
Pam Houston Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness (W. W. Norton), which was the winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award and has been translated into nine languages, and Waltzing the Cat (W. W. Norton) which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction, and novel Contents May Have Shifted (W. W. Horton). Her stories have been selected for the 1999 volumes of Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and her story The Best Girlfriend You Never Had was John Updike's only addition to Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is a regular contributor to O, the Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, Bark, More, and many other periodicals, and her essays and stories have been widely anthologized. Houston is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis, as well as the Director of the Tomales Bay Workshops.
Claire Davis & Kim Addonizio
Saturday, July 18, 7 PM An Evening with Joseph Stroud
Wednesday, July 15, 7 PM Participant Reading (Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St., in downtown Port Townsend)
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Claire Davis Claire Davis is the author of two novels, Season of the Snake (2005), and Winter Range (2001), which received the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Fiction and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. Her short fiction has been featured in The Pushcart Prize anthology and Best American Short Stories. She lives in Lewiston, Idaho, where she teaches writing at Lewis-Clark State College. Davis’ collection of short stories, Labors of the Heart (St. Martin’s Press, 2006), is comprised of stories centered around conflict over “intimacy, estrangement, and family secrets” which first appeared in major literary journals and award-winning anthologies. Her stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review, to name a few, and have been read on National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts.”
NONFICTION •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Luis Urrea Luis Alberto Urrea, 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, is the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 16 books, including The Devil’s Highway, The Hummingbird’s Daughter, Into the Beautiful North and The Tijuana Book of the Dead. Born in Tijuana, Mexico to a Mexican father and an American mother, Urrea has won numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays. The Devil’s Highway, his 2004 nonfiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, won the Lannan Literary Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize. This spring sees a new book of poetry (The Tijuana Book of the Dead), a collection of short stories (The Water Museum) and the re-release of his nature essays (Wandering Time).
Wendy Call Wendy Call is a writer, editor, translator, and educator. She has become something of an itinerant Writer in Residence, in 2013 at Acadia and Everglades National Parks, in 2012 at Joshua Tree and North Cascades National Parks, and in 2011 at Cornell College of Iowa, the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park of Vermont, and The Studios of Key West. She has also been Writer in Residence at a dozen other institutions, including the New College of Florida (2010), Seattle University (2009) and Seattle'sRichard Hugo House (2006-2008). Call’s narrative nonfiction book, No Word for Welcome (University of Nebraska Press), won Grub Street's 2011 National Book Prize for Nonfiction and the 2012 International Latino Book Award for Best History/Political Book.
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