NEA National Heritage Fellowships 2004
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Anjani Ambegaokar came to the United States in 1967 from her native India and has since become the most well...
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Charles "Chuck" T. Campbell is known as a master of the sacred steel. This form of music originated in the...
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While a senior at Roxbury Mission High School in Massachusetts, Joe Derrane recorded the first of what eventually became sixteen...
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At different times critics have called Jerry Douglas the Charlie Parker and the Jimi Hendrix of the Dobro. The Dobro,...
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Gerald Bruce Miller, known as Subiyay in the Skokomish tribal language, has dedicated his life to learning and passing along...
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Chum Ngek is both an artist and a teacher known for his performing ability on the roneat, a 21-keyed xylophone....
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Milan Opacich, born to a Croatian mother and a Serbian father from former Yugoslavia, grew up in the Calumet region...
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During the 1930s while working for the government's Works Progress Administration Federal Arts Project, Eliseo Rodriguez learned the rapidly disappearing...
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Often called the "Queen of the Blues," Koko Taylor (nee Cora Walton) was born 75 years ago in a sharecropper's...
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Yuqin Wang, born in Beijing, China, followed in her father's footsteps, training at the Beijing Opera School by the age...