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Iowa Traditional Artists on the Road
Iowa’s
traditional artists are out and about this summer. The Midwest Folklife
Festival in Dodgeville, Wis, at the Folklore
Village, August 20-21, featured African American gospel group Psalms
of Cedar Rapids and Amana tinsmith Bill Metz.
The
Midwest Folklife Festival, held last year in Waterloo is a tri-annual event that
showcases folk artists from Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota.
Iowa Bosnian dance groups K.U.D. Kolo from Waterloo and Sevdah from Des Moines performed at the 8th annual Krajiski Teferic in Waterloo.
This national gathering involved traditional Bosnian dance groups from as far away as Boise, Idaho, and St. Louis, Mo., and was supported in part by the Iowa Arts Council.
Directors
of both Iowa dance groups have been named as master artists in
the Iowa Arts Council's Traditional
Arts Apprenticeship program.
For
more information about Bill Metz, Psalms, or Sevdah (director, Aldijana Radoncic),
visit the IAC's Iowa
Roots Web site to audiostream interviews.
