2024-2025 Tours
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Image: 123 Andrés. Credit: Marcelo Quiñones.
123 Andrés, the husband-wife team of Andrés and Christina, are teaching artists creating music, books and media in Spanish and English for children and families. Each year they perform for tens of thousands of children and families at student matinee and family concerts.
They will be presented by:
- Chemung County Performing Arts, Inc., Elmira, NY
- Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission, Inc., Columbia, MD
- Emelin Theatre for the Performing Arts, Mamaroneck, NY
- Joshua M. Freeman Foundation, Selbyville, DE
- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
- Norwood Village Green Concert Series, Norwood, NY
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
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Image: Adam Booth in 23 Heron’s Journey. Credit: Angela Durkin The Journal.
Adam Booth blends traditional mountain folklore, music, and an awareness of contemporary Appalachian culture to create original, forward thinking story artistry. The Heron’s Journey is an original interactive contemporary storytelling concert that combines the traditional arts of performance storytelling, quilting, paper sculpture, and intentional movement. Created from a desire to uplift marginalized Appalachian communities, this transformation allegory offers hope and value to many audiences while recognizing the goodness found in our differences.
Adam will be presented by:
- Floyd Community Center for the Arts, Inc., Floyd, VA
- Pro-Art Association A Chapter of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Norton, VA
- The Cherry Arts, Inc., Ithaca, NY
- The Delaplaine Arts Center, Inc., Frederick, MD
- Stockton University Stockton, NJ
- Wellsboro Community Concert Association, Wellsboro, PA
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Image: Alex and Olmstead in MAROONED! A Space Comedy. Credit: Ryan Maxwell Photography.
Alex and Olmsted is an internationally acclaimed puppet theater and filmmaking company based in Maryland. They have toured at festivals in Italy, Denmark, South Korea, and Canada, and have performed at numerous venues within the United States.
They will be presented by:
- Baltimore Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD
- Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
- City of Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD
- Lake Placid Association for Music Drama & Art, Inc., Lake Placid, NY
- Millersville University, Millersville, PA
- Pro-Art Association A Chapter of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Wise, VA
- The Cherry Arts, Inc., Ithaca, NY
- University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD
- Workhouse Arts Foundation, Inc., Lorton, VA
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Image: Debra Ann Byrd in a scene from Becoming Othello at Prague Shakespeare. Credit: Prague Shakespeare.
From her ancestral lineage to her arrival at a metaphorical crossroad, Debra Ann Byrd presents a tour-de-force journey of a living memoir in BECOMING OTHELLO: A Black Girl’s Journey. This autobiographical solo show chronicles the trials and triumphs of Byrd’s life: her joy-filled and tumultuous youth growing up in Harlem, her fateful encounter with a troupe of Shakespearean actors, and ultimately her gender-flipped journey to playing Shakespeare’s noble, flawed general Othello. Byrd bares her soul in this vulnerable, personal, and resonant story of perseverance, discovery, and unconditional love.
Debra Ann Byrd will be presented by:
- Kent Cultural Alliance, Inc., Kent County, MD
- Millersville University, Lancaster, PA
- The Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA
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Image: Long Point String Band. Credit: edit: Steve Brightwell – W.V. Division of Arts, Culture and History.
Long Point String Band is an Old-Time Acoustic “Neo-Traditional” outfit from Beckley, West Virginia. The group consists of the virtuosic stylings of Hunter Walker, Brian C. Bell, Lewis Prichard and Lars Swanson. Long Point String Band seamlessly transitions between instrumentation to create unique, yet traditional textures. These textures often vary from minute to minute, song to song and show to show.
They will be presented by:
- 1891 Fredonia Opera House, Fredonia, NY
- Artslink, Inc., New Martinsville, WV
- Beckley Artistic Endeavors, Beckley, WV
- Carnegie Hall, Inc., Lewisburg, WV
- Chesterfield Cultural Arts Foundation, Chester, VA
- Lake Placid Association for Music Drama & Art, Inc., Lake Placid, NY
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Image: Plena Libre. Credit: Courtesy of the Artist.
Plena Libre is now celebrating their 30th Anniversary as San Juan, Puerto Rico’s torchbearing and pioneering masters of plena, bomba, son and salsa. With over 15 lps – and 4 Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations under their belt – Plena Libre is an unrivaled and hardhitting Afro-Latin dance party that can’t be beat.
They will be presented by:
- Chautauqua Institution, Chatauqua, NY
- Cityfest, Inc., Wilmington, DE
- Fells Point Creative Alliance, Inc., Baltimore, MD
- Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD
- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
- Music At Gretna, Inc., Mt. Gretna, PA
- Strathmore Hall Foundation, Inc., Bethesda, MD
- The Forum, Inc., St. Thomas, USVI
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA