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One Iota
One Iota calls Greater
Cincinnati home. Steve Bonafel worked as a side man in other
area bands before launching the group One Iota.
Being partial to duet sound, he recruited some
of the areas best grassers. In 2002 One Iota released
their first CD Never Grow Old, a bluegrass gospel
project that hit the mark with a new slant on some
traditional songs. In 2004 Steve released an all
original CD called Dream Catcher. This new project was stocked with bluegrass, adventure ballads and tender songs of
life and love.
One Iota was selected to perform at the prestigious IBMA Showcase in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006. They released
a brand new CD called Feuds & Fridays featuring original songs by Steve. The CD was produced by Andy Leftwich of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky
Thunder. ROOTS MUSIC REPORT charted Feuds and Fridays at #21 in May, 2007. The 2004 CD ''Dream Catcher ''also placed
at # 23 that same week.
In 2007 Steve was a part of the
IBMA SONG WRITERS SHOWCASE Oct. 2007 in Nashville. Today the band consist of Steve on guitar & lead
vocals, Jim Moore on bass and vocals, Bob Bentle
fiddle, and Shawn Brock on mandolin.
Wild Carrot
Pam Temple and Spencer Funk are
Wild Carrot
In any wild carrot performance,
you might hear a 30's standard fllowed by a traditional
tune from the 1800's and then a song written just
last week. They've got what it takes to please
all kinds of folk music fans. Pam Temple and Spencer
Funk are the award-wining Cincinnati-based duo
wild carrot. Rooted in traditional American music,
their repertoire branches in diverse directions:
from award-winning original songs to traditional
and not-so-traditional folk songs and from show
tunes to jazz and blues. They do interesting arrangements
with vocals, guitar, mandolin, concertina, penny
whistle, dulcimer, banjo and bowed psaltery. In
quartet with their Roots Band (Brenda Wolfersberger
and Brandt Smith) they expand to four vocals and
add bass, banjo and dobro. Wild carrot's entertaining
and moving performances have something for everyone.
Their perforamances have often been described as "honest, soothing, uplifting
and fun all at the same time." In Their growing
reputation for high musicianship, professionalism
and fun have made them a favorite on the national
folk circuit. It all adds up to a performance that
is "seamless", "life-sized complex,
subtle and powerful" and "a joy." They
have shared the stage with such internationally known
acts as Fairport Convention, Jean Ritchie, Arlo Guthrie,
Stanley Jordan, Robin and Linda Williams, David Massengil,
Bill Staines, Peter Mulvey, Kate Campbell and Bill
Morrissey.
Awards and Honors
Recently chosen as cultural
ambasadors to Chile, South America (2003 & 2005)
by the US Emabssy in Santiago, they were finalists
for the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Contest
(Kerrville, TX, 2000), winners of the Walnut Valley
New Songs Showcase for Folk (Winfield, KS, 2000),
and were named Best Folk Act by the Cincinnati
Entertainment Awards. Wild carrot is currently
participating in Muse Machine Adventure program,
performing and giving songwriting workshops to
elementary and middle school classes regionally.
They are on the Ohio Arts conuncil's Artists on
Tour Fee Support and the Heartland Arts Fund Rosters
and are endorsing artists for John Pearse Strings.
Bio
Both from Cincinnati, Pamela and Spencer are rooted
in traditional folk music but branch in diverse directions.
With over 10 years of classical vocal training, Pamela
has performed in many venues from coffeehouses to
opera houses. Her experience as a Peace Corps volunteer
in Costa Rica helped her develop an honest and intelligent
song-writing style. Spencer has always been drawn
to fingerstyle guitar but has studied and performed
many styles including jazz, blues, and classical
for over 30 years. He has been in demand as a side-man
over the years and teaches guitar, mandolin, banjo
and bass.
Pamela and Spencer met back
in 1991 at the then 30+-year-old Leo Coffeehouse
when he was managing the place and she was singing
at an open mic. After a few years they decided
to join forces and as their musical relationship
took root so did their personal relationship and
they're still growing. With any luck both will
continue long after people stop asking, "Is
the name wild carrot a reference to her hair?"
What's In a Name?
So, where did we get the
name "wild carrot'?
A wild carrot is the same as Queen Anne's lace. Our
music has been described as being rooted in the solid
earth of tradition, while displaying a delicate musical
intricacy, like the flower of Queen Anne's lace.
Rabbit Hash
String Band
"Just two hops and a jump" from the Ohio
River in Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, and not a "fur
piece" from Cincinnati, the Rabbit Hash String
Band is pickin' tunes.
The band developed from a shared love that these
long-time old-time friends have for the 1920s and
'30s music of Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers
band.
Russ and Barb Childers live in Batavia, Ohio, and
primarily present old timey music to area school
children. Warren and Judy Waldron live in Somerville,
Ohio, but play and call square dances all over the
region. Tommy Taylor lives in Rabbit Hash and performs
with a bluegrass gospel band. His brother was the
beloved 1930s WJJD Chicago country radio personality
Pappy Taylor of Uncle Henry Warren's Kentucky Mountaineers
Band.
The Rabbit Hash String Band features the twin fiddles
of Tommy Taylor and Warren Waldron, the clawhammer
banjo of Russ Childers, and Judy Waldron and Barb
Childers round out the sound on guitar and banjo
uke. All members, without warning, have been known
to belt out a song.
Any evening spent with the Rabbit Hash String Band
is a good time -- and their fun-loving music will
transport the listener back in time:
Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, is where I long to be; cornbread,
and 'lasses, and sassafras tea...
Bear Foot
When Barb Childers appears in
an Appalachian storytelling musical duo called Bear
Foot, she is the Foot and her husband Russ is the
Bear. When she cuts loose on her own, she calls her
footloose stories and musical performances "Stories
Afoot!" Barb is a former children's librarian,
a past dancer with the traditional clogdance team
Dancin' Fools, one-half of Bear Foot, and one-fifth
of the popular old-timey group Rabbit Hash String
Band. She specializes in highly interactive Appalachian
storytelling and folklore but loves to share historical,
seasonal, and cultural traditions of other regions
as well. Her captivated audiences range in age from
children to senior citizens. Barb and her husband,
veteran performers of over 30 years, make their home
in Batavia, Ohio.
Additional questions answered: Long, long ago, my
father’s stories of his childhood in Africa
enthralled me and gave me dreams of my own. My mother’s
father also loved to recite nursery rhymes and riddles
for every occasion. Ours was a singing family, so,
as a child, I began entertaining my younger sister
with my own stories and songs. As an adult, I learned
more formal storytelling philosophy from my mentor,
children’s librarian and storyteller extraordinaire
Connie Harris. Years of listening to traditional
experiences of Appalachian elders inspired me to
share that powerful imagery. I want to create enriching
mental images of the world for others as I received
them from all the storytellers in my life. Sometimes
the story comes to us through words, sometimes through
actions, sometimes through music. I like to use all
manner of interactive ways to put the story in the
listener’s mind—from simple telling to
songs, skits, rhythms, riddles, and even dance. The
best expression I ever heard to explain the importance
of storytelling comes from the book Crow and Weasel
(North Point Press, 1990) by Gary Lopez: "If
stories come to you, care for them. And learn to
give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a
person needs a story more than food to stay alive.”
RICK CARSON, STORYTELLER
166 East Fairway Drive
Hamilton, Ohio 45013
(513) 867-1525
jrcarson@fuse.net
Rick brings a unique blend of dramatic skills and traditional concepts to the art of storytelling. Each character in his stories breathes a life of its own due to Rick’s ability to blend movement, timing, and a variety of voices.
Rick will tell stories at the drop of a hat and his hat has hit the floor in a variety of places. During the last 25 years, Rick has told stories at libraries, schools, parks, club meetings, churches, parties and storytelling festivals to people of all ages. He enjoys introducing school children to the art of storytelling through residencies as well as teaching storytelling to adults through workshops and continuing education classes. Rick was honored to be chosen to tell as part of a Regional Concert at the 1997 National Storytelling Conference. In September of 2006, Rick was one of the regional tellers at the Southern Ohio Storytelling Festival in Chillicothe, Ohio and in April, 2007, he told at the Northern Kentucky Storytelling Festival held at the Kenton County Public Library in Erlanger, Kentucky.
Rick is a member of the National Storytelling Network, OOPS (Ohio Order for the Preservation of Storytelling), the International Order of EARS, and a charter member of the Miami Valley Storytellers. He has recorded two recordings of his stories, one for children and one for adults and young adults.
Dance Bios
Crossroads Dance Team
With
Bear Foot AT THE PICKIN’ PORCH
Contact: MM Burkhardt, w: 859-635-0151
Cell: 859-801-5050
515 Main & Renshaw Streets
Highland Heights, KY 41076
mm.burkhardt@campbell.kyschools.us (school
email)
mmburk@hotmail.com (home email)
Crossroads Dance Team is made up of third through fifth grade
students from Crossroads Elementary. Our school is proud to be part of
the Campbell County Schools of Northern Kentuck.
The team meets
once a week after school to practice. We perform for several community
events throughout the year. Students demonstrate dances suggested by
the Kentucky Core Content such as American Playparties, African, Native American,
English Country, Baroque and Colonial dances.
Our primary repertoire emphasizes Mountain Square
Dances. We specialize in the Big Set of Kentucky
Set Running. Through a grant from the
Kentucky Arts Council the team has been fortunate
to work with fiddler, Russ Childers. Mr. Childers
has enriched our learning with live fiddling, calling,
and instruction in traditional instruments.
The
team is also involved in a historic documentation
project with the cooperation of Mr. Ruben Moreno. Mr.
Moreno is a videographer and Kentucky Arts Council
artist. Students used digital photography and art
design to publish a picture.
All
Nations Drum is made up of many Nations,
such as Cherokee, Blackfoot, Mingo, Shawnee, Lakota
and many others that have come and gone. We
are very rich in various ways of several nations. We
are what is commonly known as an Inter-Tribal Drum. A
Drum made up of many nations coming together to
teach one another as well as our children and the
public. This Drum has many families dedicated
to the Drumming and Dancing as to continue to teach
our children of our traditions so that it is not
lost or the Traditions die. For we look toward
the children, for they are our Leaders and Teachers
of Tomorrow, just as we have been for our ancestors
whom has walked on before us. We give thanks
for Mother Earth and Father Sky for all their Blessings.
GLORY TO GOD AND OUR CHILDREN
John Spotted Horse Helton
All Nations
Drum is made up of eleven people whom are families
that continue to teach their children and the public
as well of their Culture’s, through Drumming,
Dancing and Storytelling. The Drum was made
by the members of All Nations Drum Group; each and
everyone contributed in someway to the making.
John “Spotted
Horse” Helton is the Drum Keeper and Song Leader
for the Drum. He
is a native of Cincinnati and descendants from Gray,
Kentucky where is Elders are from. His teachings
were taught to him by those Elders. He
is very informative of these teachings. You
may see All Nations at several events and celebrations
and we hope you enjoy our Drum as much as we love
Drumming, Singing and Dancing.
Members include: John “Spotted
Horse” Helton,
Mary Ann Helton, Nickolas Cook, Matthew Withrow,
Crow Meyer, Bill Turley, Tabitha Cozad, Lisa Meyer,
Katrina Meyer, Shawota Pope and Tim Cozad.
Square Dance Instruction by Spirit of America
Cloggers
Contact:
Ken Perkins, 859-356-3897
859-240-1342
(Cell)
k.perkins@insightbb.com
kperkins@progressrail.com (work)
6471
Adahi Dr., Independence, KY 41051
We dance to bring entertainment
to groups of people, even if it’s only for a short period of time. We
line up in lines and as the music plays, we dance
to entertain you. The groups’ leader,
Ken Perkins, teaches country line and clogging to
people all over the tri-state area, including Alexandria,
Kentucky and Price Hill, Ohio. |
