Mick Kinney is a versatile musician and educator, equally comfortable on many styles of fiddle, country lap steel, swing guitar, old time banjo, Cajun accordion, or ragtime piano. His teaching experience includes several years at Swannanoa Gathering Old Time and Swing weeks, a decade at […]

Seminole artist Brian Zepeda grew up in a traditional village where he learned the stories, songs, and arts of his people. According to Zepeda, “For us the emphasis is on teaching the younger generations of tribal members. We see books that say a lot of things about […]

Actor, producer, and filmmaker Kennedy Pugh resides in Pueblo, Colorado where he is an active proponent of the arts. The executive director of Colorado Arts and Artists, Pugh was a 2021 recipient of the Colorado Governor’s Creative Leadership Award and produced the 2019 documentary film, […]

Praised by the Chicago Tribune for his ability to “simply let the score speak for itself,” Kedrick Armstrong enjoys a wide range of conducting, from early music to premiering new works. This past season, he returned to the Knox-Galesburg Symphony and debuted with the DePaul Opera Theater, conducting Leonard […]

Since 2012, Jon Casler has been creating narrative shorts and documentaries, often with humor. Two of his shorts, “Family Forever,” a dark comedy,  and  “Fang and Joe,” a nature documentary, have played at film festivals nationwide.  He attended Colorado Film School from 2012 to 2015, […]