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April 23-25, 2027
Vic Rawlings is an electro-acoustic musician, sound installation artist and freelance teacher. He’s been a visiting artist at Oberlin Conservatory, MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Princeton, Dartmouth and Wesleyan. His current project, 215 Dead End Road, is a documentary film about the legendary Kentucky banjo player Lee Sexton. He lives in western Massachusetts. […]
Soprano Marcía Porter made her Weill Recital Hall debut in 2005. Porter has performed with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Beijing International Symphony Orchestra (Beijing, China), the Camerata Filarmonica Bohemia (Prague, CzechRepublic), the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Chautauqua Opera, and Dayton Opera, among others. Ms. […]
Erica Plouffe Lazure received her MFA in fiction at Bennington in 2008. Her work has appeared in such publications as McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Greensboro Review, Meridian and American Short Fiction. She’s the author of two forthcoming chapbooks, Dry Dock and Heard Around Town. She teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. […]
Amanda Petrusich is the author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music and Pink Moon, an installment in Continuum’s acclaimed 33 1/3 series. She is a contributing writer for Pitchfork and a contributing editor at The Oxford American, and her music and culture writing has appeared […]
A winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, Ann Patchett is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading writers. The author of six novels, including Bel Canto and State of Wonder, as well as several non-fiction books and a collection of essays, in her spare time she’s part-owner of Parnassus […]
Brendan Nolan was born and reared just to the north of the city of Dublin. When he was growing up in Ireland in the sixties and seventies there was a resurgence of interest in Irish music. Spearheading this musical rebirth were groups like The Dubliners, Planxty, The Bothy Band, and others. Around the same time […]
Karen McElmurray is an award-winning creative nonfiction author who is well noted for her many essays, novels and short stories. Her work has been supported by numerous grants, such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her most recent novel, The Motel of the […]
Founded in 1995, Marcus Roberts Trio is known around the world for their signature virtuosic trio style, 15 years later. They have an entirely new approach to jazz trio performance. Although the piano is typically the focus of most jazz trios, in the Marcus Roberts Trio, all musicians share equally in shaping the direction of […]
Florida Non-FictionGold MedalLa Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence(University Press of Florida) edited by Viviana Díaz Balsera and Rachel A. May Rachel A. May is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLAC) at the University of South Florida. Her previous work has concerned the history of […]
Clare Lynch was born in County Cavan but is a long time resident of Sligo, Ireland (Tallahassee’s sister city). She is a writer with a sharp eye. These beautifully observed stories, in the ordinariness of their subject matter, give a warm and telling insight into the human condition. She can create a colorful landscape in […]