by kudzu | Mar 29, 2017 | Connie in the News
North Carolina storyteller Connie Regan-Blake (right) will perform with Roanoke College’s resident chamber music group the Kandinsky Trio (below) at the Lyric Theatre. Their show “Tales of Appalachia” combines chamber music and traditional Appalachian storytelling to...
by kudzu | Mar 29, 2017 | Connie in the News
From Another Time: The Legacy of Ray Hicks By Connie Regan-Blake We have been looking up to him from the beginning . . . the lanky 6’ 7’’ man of the mountains, who came down from North Carolina, bearing old-world gifts that have enriched our modern lives beyond...
by kudzu | Mar 29, 2017 | Connie in the News
Kandinsky Trio, Regan-Blake Prove Enchanting By Joseph Youngblood Effective storytelling is married to solid technique on piano, cello’s warm tones and violin’s sweetness. The Society of the Four Arts hosted an absolutely enchanting Sunday afternoon of...
by kudzu | Mar 29, 2017 | Connie in the News
People, events, and ideas of interest from the narrative arts. Chamber Trio and Teller Create New Genre IT WAS CALLED ‘A TRIUPHANT MAIDEN VOYAGE INTO A NEW FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT’ by the Nashville Banner. And ‘a multimedia piece of art in which...
by kudzu | Mar 29, 2017 | Connie in the News
Folktellers ’89 By Barbara Home Stewart January 1989 RARELY does life give one an opportunity to disprove the truth of Thomas Wolfe’s tenet that you can’t go home again. But sometimes it does-and when it does, that experience can be memorable, even...
by kudzu | Mar 29, 2017 | Connie in the News
ONCE UPON A TIME… Meet two women who are in one of the world’s oldest professions – storytelling. By Marie Bartlett It’s a summer night in Philadelphia, and some 20,000 people are seated on quilts or blankets before a large outdoor stage on...
