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Darryl Tookes
Darryl Tookes is a prolific composer, pianist, singer and arranger who is recognized throughout the music world as a truly original artist and creative giant. He tours with his band, The Darryl Tookes Band. For the 2007 Holiday Season, Darryl is appearing at New York City’s legendary and elegant Café Carlyle as a back up singer for Steve Tyrell whom he will also back up with the Nashville and Houston Symphonies in January 2008. His many albums are available through www.cdbaby.com. During his 25-year career Mr. Tookes has sung at Carnegie Hall with Roberta Flack, recorded and toured with Sting, and performed at the White House for President and Ms. Clinton. He sang on the PBS television show Great Performances with Leonard Bernstein conducting West Side Story, and on the Soulful Messiah with Quincy Jones. Darryl has also worked with George Benson, Dave Grusin, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, Laurie Anderson, Carly Simon, Diana Ross and many others.
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| Guy Davis
"A Night With The Blues"
He's got some Blind Willie McTell and some Fats Waller, some Buddy Guy
and some Taj Mahal. He's got some Zora Neale Hurston, some Garrison
Keillor, and some Laura Davis (his ninety-seven year old grandmother).
He's a composer, actor, director and writer. But most importantly,
Guy Davis is a bluesman. The blues permeate every corner of Guy's creativity.
Throughout his career, he has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of
acoustic blues and bringing them to as many ears as possible through the material
of the great blues masters, African American stories, and his own original songs,
stories and performance pieces.
Guy's creative roots run deep. Though raised in New York, he grew up hearing accounts of
life in the rural south from his parents and grandparents, and they made their way into
his own stories and songs. Guy was also exposed early to the world of show business --
his parents are actors, directors and storytellers Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. In 1995 Red House
Records released "Stomp Down Rider," Guy in live performance of some
of his own original songs and masterpieces by Willie McTell, Robert Johnson,
Leadbelly and Mance Lipscomb.
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Kenny Merrick, Jr.
Native American Flutist
"The Creator gifted each and every one of us with something special.
You find that within yourself. All your dreams can come true.
The greatest gifts on earth are God's children. Don't be afraid to share with
the people, because we all come from one Creator."
An enrolled member of Fort Berthold's three affiliated tribes, Kenny Merrick, Jr.'s experience with Indian culture has been life-long in the making. Mr. Merrick is also a Grammy nominated musician who has traveled around the world performing Native American music. During his school programs, he talks about American Indian folk lore, customs, and reverence for nature and elders--and also plays the flute. If space allows, Kenny invites the entire school audience, teachers and students alike, to participate in a drum dance.
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EXPERIENCE SILENT MOVIES WITH LIVE PIANO
Bruce Lawton, Curator & Projectionist;
Ben Model, Producer & Pianist
Bruce Lawton and Ben Model have been producing silent films shows for the past five years, most notably at the popular New York City-based Silent Clowns Film Series - featured in stories on silent film in the New York Times, New York Magazine and on NY1 and BBC-TV--and also at the New-York Historical Society's Family Classics of the Silent Screen. Bruce and Ben also perform regularly in schools, libraries, museums, theatres and churches. They have also taught a course on Silent Film at the New School in New York City. In this era of digital film and TV, there is nothing like seeing real silent movies with piano acccompaniment. There is a completely different atmosphere watching silent movies--vigorous active audience participation!
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