From the festival world of KadmusArts:

May we all create a festival life in 2009!

From all of us at KadmusArts,
Best wishes for the New Year!

Marco Werman is Senior Producer and host of PRI’s The World. Marco has received several awards for his work, including an Emmy Award for his Frontline/World Rough Cut story Libya: Out of the Shadow.

In this podcast Marco talks about cultural diplomacy, the medium of radio, and the challenges and opportunities facing artists around the world in the 21st Century.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

Every turning point needs a song, an anthem to capture the spirit of the time and hope for what comes next.

KadmusArts believes the highest culture can be found in the lowest, as well as the lowest in the highest — in the end art is art, and culture sings for us all. Hence the recognition of what UK television’s X Factor has accomplished. Alexandra Burke wins the competition with her version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah.

Now, Cohen’s Hallelujah is poised to be a number one hit single for the holiday season.

What a perfect anthem for our times. Hallelujah is gruff and tough, and echoes a desire for steadiness. Cohen combines a well-earned wisdom with a profound hope for what is coming.

Spend a few minutes with these versions, and you, too, will be singing Hallelujah!

Leonard in the seventies:	John Cale:
K.D. Lang:	Sheryl Crow:
Jeff Buckley:	Rufus Wainwright:
Allison Crowe:	Jon Bon Jovi:
Kurt Nilsen, Espen Lind, Askil Holm, Alejandro Fuentes:	Damien Rice:
Leonard this year:

Hallelujah for our times.

- Bill Reichblum
lesbiam moms 1
ass free pic 1
trixie teen 1
xnxx gallery 1
delanie brazil1
web sex 1
mom sex muvie 1
anime freesex
erotic dancers
carsex movie
xxx dessert
free sex mac
porno tub pl
turk porn
jed wilcox
porn tv onlin
wives fucking
sexmoms pics
moms sonsporn
voyeur mpegs
dad son gay
disney raja
andrea parker
sex pomes
schoolbusporn
kagome hentai
pantihose sex
older lady sex
teengallery
german porn tv
suck boobs
free hot tv
icarly porn
penny hentai
asiansex video
porn records
mapouka porno
henti free
flexible sex
candid place
bestsexmachine
virtual jenna
femalesex porn
bbs nude teens
etremesex
porn games gay
fairly odd porn
handjobcfnm
porn video hu
weding sex
panties anal
free gyno
taboo famili
ladie sex
redlightporn
Vgcats porn
digimon girls
top sex moves
rubber pants
little boy sex
nude celebraty
kingsley porn
peru teens
sex men picture
anal exam
hairy gallery
penis gallery
candice jackson
3d sex yuna
sheri moon pron
pics doggystyle
asian hot girl
fatmatures
sian wilshaw
idian porn
solomio
pokemon sex
hardporn pics
real mature
fat world sex
porn magna
free japan sex
hugeboobsporn
great dane sex
pornteenvideos
wow porn art
lesbin milf
msn amateur
porn orgasm
xj9 porno
asaian girls
boy sex russian
3d porn
porn 18
lesiban porn
milk porn
latvia porn
eve angel ru
labia porn
winx porn pics
actresssex
dp sex free
crok movies
ask for porn
porn activex
2 dollar porn
iran porn
sissy porn
sex med heste
sex poisition
porn africa
bum porn
celebirty porn
ghana webcam
sex mon
frre sex
porn swallow
toasty porno
freegaymovies
sex liv
sex photo
breast giver
free n95 porn
home porntube
kong fuck
cartons porm
amateuryouporn
pantyhose tube
lisbeans
granny orgasm
bdsm furniture
mini skirt sex
home made free
goth sex
medievil porn
sexthai
hitomi sex
tvants porno
porno cartoon
sexin sydney
brezilian ass
brazilian sex
young and hot
nami porn
metart sex
60 plus sex
c 18 porno
fotosex
blak porno
sonya sex
michel brown
porn bdsn
fotoporn
daiper girls
rio lee
draball xxx
anal gym
porn sits
youtub arab
young chunky
celebity sex
alabama porn
waterbed sex
bdsm lesbian
nuns porn
hafa wahbi
free pic sex
leggings sex
cartoon gay
vamp porn
tiviia
male gaysex
wmv free wmv
migit sex
pregnant fuck
preeten porn
tia tequila
tampon sex
freegyno
steele porn
free soft porn
gay daddy
porn dog vomen
female anus
aaron giand
tvporn
victor banda
aaa sex
doraemon sex
l?nger?a
little model
xxx scooby doo
beastialy
cc fantastic
laurie model
sex tape fr
hentai force
falkon porn
hubtube com
clips xx
hentaivideo
cry porn
yong porn
phorn videos
ny porn
simpson hentai
sex tv gratuit
little whores
besiality
reanna porn
cuckold tgp
youngmodels
sister mpegs
anal sex poop
bhojpuri sex
vomit pics
brutal rapesex
sexbreast
lesbies sex
porn game
picapiedras
carlaschoice
nightelf sex
pusooy
massage sex
sexmammy
mature mania
shorts porn
emp porn
pornwolf
aniamal sex
hermiona porn
x master porn
oldporn site
air gear sex
jamaicanporn
porntranny
orihime porn
porono
youporn paris
easyporn
bootsex
semi nude sex
up skirt sex
bazzar porno
celebirty porn
women dogs sex
dorothy sex
adriana faust
sex wold
matura porn
russian amalia
eva green bj
sex rpg
free ponfree pon

Jerry Yoshitomi is an independent cultural facilitator and chief knowledge officer at MeaningMatters. His work focuses on the public value of the arts, participation, cultural exchange and collaboration. He has worked with leading presenting and arts organizations, and has produced key research documents and studies.

In this interview Jerry reflects on some of his most meaningful performing arts experiences, how public arts institutions can best serve the field, and what arts organizations can learn from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

Nicole Borrelli Hearn is an artist manager at Opus 3 Artists. Previously, she was the chairwoman of the SITI Company, a theater group in New York.

In this interview she talks about how agents, artists and presenters interact, how to help presenters take risks on new work, and her favorite places to see great music and theater.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

Bill Bragin is Director of Public Programming at Lincoln Center, heading up the summer outdoor festivals Midsummer Night Swing and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. Bill was also director of Joe’s Pub and The Public Theater.

In this podcast he talks about how he became hooked on world music, how he draws audiences to innovative performances, and the challenges and opportunities for American presenters.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

Photo Credit: Nicole Szalewski

Photo by Judy Harter — Some Rights Reserved

To mark the passing of Odetta, one of our world’s most remarkable voices of passion, beauty and justice, we present a special remembrance.

Jonathan Secor is Director of Special Programs at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He has also worked at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, while at the same time running his own production company. Jonathan, who co-created Songs of the Spirit, produced Odetta’s last live performance.

Children Go Where I send thee…
Ain’t no Grave Gonnna Hold my Body down…
This is the arc of Odetta for me.

On December 2nd, 2008 this world lost a powerful force. A woman whose voice and whose will changed lives and laws. A woman who could fill your heart with desire to do good, break your heart with the knowledge that there is bad and paint a picture so vivid that you could see, taste and feel exactly what she was singing about. Her physical presence in this world will be missed, but she leaves us a legacy of music to live by and a model for how one can.

At an early age I had the pleasure of getting to know Odetta’s music, and at a later age (for both of us) I had the pleasure and the privilege of getting to know Odetta. Both my parents were huge fans, taking my sister and I to see her whenever she was at Tanglewood. Odetta records were played constantly, in particular at Christmas time and my mother’s singing of black spirituals as lullabies always were sung in Odetta’s voice and style. It would not be Christmas day without hearing Odetta’s voice sending the “children two by two” as she told the children to go where she sent them.

Odetta was the prototype of the activist performer, the predecessor of the Bruce Springsteens and the Bonos whose mission is not just to entertain, but to use one’s talents to effect change, change in particular for the less fortunate. And of Odetta I would say, that like Pete Seeger, it was at the cost of ever becoming a true commercial success. But Odetta was a believer, a believer that we are inherently good people and that one, through one’s words and actions could effect change. I am so very happy that she lived long enough to see a black man win the support of the people to sit in that very white house.

That is not to say that she was not a showman. Odetta gave one helluva performance. She knew how to wrap you around her finger and take you wherever SHE wanted you to go. And in her last years of performing, when she was wheel chair bond and had to change her phrasing and singing style to accommodate emphysema from too many years of smoking — she still had that power. For Tina Turner the power may be in the legs, for Odetta it has always been in the voice.

Odetta needed to, and had earned the right to, hold center stage and have the last word. While at MASS MoCA we booked Odetta to be part of an evening of political music headlined by Steve Earle. Carl Hancock Rux was opener number one, giving a great though mildly incomprehensible performance. Odetta was opener number two. Odetta on a stool with a piano player. Within minutes of being on stage the audience was hers. I felt pity for Steve Earle, for though he gave a great set he never could reclaim that stage for his own.

I did not learn from that mistake, at least not yet. A few years later, when producing Songs of the Spirit at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, I once again booked Odetta, and once again did not have the sense to let her have the last word. A last minute addition of Meshell N’dgecello to the line up had convinced us to push Odetta forward so Meshell could close the evening. Again when Odetta came out, wheeled to the stage but still able to stand and walk to center stage, the thousands in the Cathedral leapt to their feet. And she had them on her feet for her entire set. The love was evident. Yes, I pitied Meshell for following.

The last time I had the privilege of working with Odetta I knew not to do anything but let her close the show. So even though we had some eighty-eight performers on tour with Songs of the Spirit, including the great Hugh Masekala, we made sure that we ended every performance with Odetta’s set. Every night on tour Hugh Masekala would finish his set, and introduce the great “Mama” Odetta. She would be wheeled out, looking old and frail, seemingly not capable of producing much of anything, let alone to follow the trumpet and power of the great musican and activist that is Hugh Masekala. But no. The audience, no matter what city we were in, always got to their feet with a standing ovation before she sang a note. And Odetta would come to live. Out of that wheelchair, out of the beaten body would come this voice that filled the void, the void in the room, the void in our hearts. And with Hugh backing her up in trumpet she would sing “Ain’t no grave, gonna hold this body down”. And you knew, as I know now - Ain’t no grave gonna hold Odetta down. Not then. Not now.

- Jonathan Secor

An Odetta sampler:

• The Midnight Special — video
• At the Newport Folk Festival — video
• At the Sister Rosetta Tharpe Benefit — video
• Odetta and Ruby Dee — video
• Odetta on Activism — video
• Keep on Movin’ It On — video
• Glory Halleluja — video

Marie Trottier is the disabilities coordinator for Harvard University, working with the schools, departments, and performance spaces to ensure disability compliance and foster a culture of inclusion throughout the institution. She is also a successful actor and member of the regional Screen Actors Guild, who has played in a broad range of roles in commercials, music videos, and movies. Marie is a featured speaker at the 2009 Arts Presenters conference session “Reach In/Reach Out: Embracing a Culture of Accessibility and Inclusion”.

In this podcast Marie talks about how creativity and flexibility go a long way to ensuring access, why human contact between patrons is essential to a culture of inclusion, and how errors and mistakes can be teachable moments.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

Mark Russell is the artistic director of the Under the Radar Festival, a two week extravaganza of exciting and experimental theater. Previously, he was also artistic director of P.S. 122 and Portland’s Time-Based Art Festival.

In this podcast Mark talks about the structure and design of UTR, the purity of voice coming from performances, and the need to continuously make the case for art in public life.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

Photo by Wally Gobetz — Some Rights Reserved

As we approach the end of a tumultuous year, we can’t help but look ahead towards 2009 with a curious mixture of hope, excitement, and given our world’s politics, religions and economies, some trepidation.

This year has inspired many of us to go back to the basics, to reevaluate our lifestyles and to redefine the things that matter — that truly make us happy and our world a better place.

To find peace is a challenge in this hyperactive world of non-stop action and twenty-four hour online communication. However, don’t we all seek a bit of a rest-stop in our fast-forward lives? A safe haven where calmness, and thankfulness, are allowed to thrive?

We want to make sure that the New Year will provide opportunities for peace, good-will, and even a touch of the sacred, the ancient traditions carried inside each of us.

KadmusArts is looking to profile festivals throughout the month of December that celebrate the music of the soul and our communal quest for harmony.

From massive concerts that encourage the practice of non-violence to groundbreaking theatre festivals where exiles and refugees share center stage, sacred arts festivals play an important role in cross-cultural connection and the preservation of cultural traditions.

Let us know your recommendations for festivals that explore the relationship between faith and interfaith, biculturalism, and the sounds of spirituality.

After all, where would we be without artists giving us their visions live in the desert or live via satellite?

Aren’t you ready for a little peace? A little soul? A little harmony?

- Bill Reichblum