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FLORIDA FEST TO HOST ARMENIAN OUD PLAYER JOE ZEYTOONIAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 10, 2011 - 13:06 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Traditional folk music that once reverberated
through fishing camps, orange groves and cypress swamps of rural
Florida and villages around the world will be heard again during the
inaugural Gulf Coast Folklife Festival in downtown Tarpon Springs,
The Sun Coast News reported.
The festival, an "eclectic array of music and dance performances,"
including presentations and workshops by folk crafters, will be held
from noon to 10 p.m. Nov. 19, according to a news release.
The Gulf Coast Folklife Festival is supported in part by a grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts' Folk and Traditional Arts Program.
The event will end with a street dance to the rhythms of Middle
Eastern, Cuban and Haitian music.
Among famed folk performers will be: National Heritage fellow Ezequiel
Torres, recognized for his Afro-Cuban drumming; James Kelly, master of
the Irish fiddle; Henry Ohumukini, expert on Hawaiian ukulele, chants
and instrument making; and George Soffos, a Greek bouzouki player. The
Philippine Performing Arts Company dancers will also perform.
Other master folk artists and groups will include: Papaloko and Loray
Mistik, Haitian pop; the Middle Harmonic Motion, with Joe Zeytoonian,
Myriam Eli and Elias Kilzi, Eastern dance music; and the Greek and
Irish fiddle tunes, Panayotis "Paddy" League.
Crafters will demonstrate folk traditions, including: Cracker cow
whips, George Altman; Hawaiian quilting, Ginger LaVoie; chair canning,
Doris Graves and Harold Woodall; Thai food carving, Kanlaya Reneau;
Haitian painting, Jude Thegenus; sponge diving helmets, Nicholas Toth;
duck decoys, Michael Berg; Puerto Rican bobbin lace, Aida Etchegoyen;
Hungarian embroidery, Margaret Horvath; and Haitian sculpture,
Almann Ulysse.
A festival highlight will be a folk master's forum. It will showcase
four of Florida's best traditional musicians: James Kelly, Irish
fiddle; George Soffos, Greek bouzouki; Ezequiel Torres, Afro-Cuban
drums; and Joe Zeytoonian, Armenian oud.
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 10, 2011 - 13:06 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Traditional folk music that once reverberated
through fishing camps, orange groves and cypress swamps of rural
Florida and villages around the world will be heard again during the
inaugural Gulf Coast Folklife Festival in downtown Tarpon Springs,
The Sun Coast News reported.
The festival, an "eclectic array of music and dance performances,"
including presentations and workshops by folk crafters, will be held
from noon to 10 p.m. Nov. 19, according to a news release.
The Gulf Coast Folklife Festival is supported in part by a grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts' Folk and Traditional Arts Program.
The event will end with a street dance to the rhythms of Middle
Eastern, Cuban and Haitian music.
Among famed folk performers will be: National Heritage fellow Ezequiel
Torres, recognized for his Afro-Cuban drumming; James Kelly, master of
the Irish fiddle; Henry Ohumukini, expert on Hawaiian ukulele, chants
and instrument making; and George Soffos, a Greek bouzouki player. The
Philippine Performing Arts Company dancers will also perform.
Other master folk artists and groups will include: Papaloko and Loray
Mistik, Haitian pop; the Middle Harmonic Motion, with Joe Zeytoonian,
Myriam Eli and Elias Kilzi, Eastern dance music; and the Greek and
Irish fiddle tunes, Panayotis "Paddy" League.
Crafters will demonstrate folk traditions, including: Cracker cow
whips, George Altman; Hawaiian quilting, Ginger LaVoie; chair canning,
Doris Graves and Harold Woodall; Thai food carving, Kanlaya Reneau;
Haitian painting, Jude Thegenus; sponge diving helmets, Nicholas Toth;
duck decoys, Michael Berg; Puerto Rican bobbin lace, Aida Etchegoyen;
Hungarian embroidery, Margaret Horvath; and Haitian sculpture,
Almann Ulysse.
A festival highlight will be a folk master's forum. It will showcase
four of Florida's best traditional musicians: James Kelly, Irish
fiddle; George Soffos, Greek bouzouki; Ezequiel Torres, Afro-Cuban
drums; and Joe Zeytoonian, Armenian oud.