Member Since: 10/02/2007
Band Members: Krista Detor
Tim Grimm
Carrie Newcomer
Tom Roznowski
Michael WhiteWilderness Plots
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WILDERNESS PLOTS SPECIAL BROADCAST!
The WILDERNESS PLOTS feature filmed by WTIU PUBLIC TELEVISION was broadcast several times in March 2008.
Wilderness Plots—in word and song—captures the hardships, ironies and aspirations of early pioneer life in the Ohio Valley. This unique project, featuring the written word of renowned author Scott Russell Sanders and original songs by Tim Grimm, Carrie Newcomer, Krista Detor, Tom Roznowski, and Michael White, is recorded here in a 56 minute glimpse into history.
The DVD from this broadcast is available for purchase now!
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FOLLOWING INDIANA LOCATIONS:
Indiana Historical Society
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450 W Ohio St, Indianapolis, 46202
Phone: (317) 232-1882
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A tour d'force collection of songs by five exceptional songwriters.
SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS, AUTHOR
WILDERNESS PLOTS (The Book)
Publisher:
Wooster Book Company
205 W. Liberty Street
Wooster, OH 44691
http://www.woosterbook.com
"I HAD THE PRIVILEGE of seeing the first public reading of the Wilderness Plots project and was immediately struck with its emotional impact--the weaving of spoken word and song is highly inventive, and moves toward the creation of a new form that is at once highly accessible and highly dramatic. It moved me to tears and to laughter many times! The combination of talents and voices gives it tremendous strength as a performance piece. I found it extremely compelling and am very much looking forward to seeing it again."
~ Janet Allen, Artistic Director
Indiana Repertory Theatre
"IT IS A RARE AND WONDERFUL event to see a new blended-genre piece work so beautifully in a first time on its feet! Wilderness Plots is already well on its way to capturing something powerful about rural, Midwestern life in a way that is fresh and highly appealing. Thanks for allowing me to see it in its early stage of development."
~ Joel Grynheim, Project Manager
The New Harmony Project
"WILDERNESS PLOTS IS A GIFT to teachers and students of all ages, a chance to build a bridge to the past and better understand the present, to teach history that will be recalled well after the test is taken."
~ Melissa Keller, PhD, Indiana University Bloomington School of Education (specialist in historical education)
KRISTA DETOR is a CoraZong Records recording artist. Originally from California, but currently living in Bloomington, Indiana, she has traveled the world and written down much of what she's seen of the people and places along the way. Her most recent release is the highly acclaimed "Mudshow."
"She would be good on every stage in the world."
~ Rolling Stone
TIM GRIMM is an actor (stage, film, and television) and Wind River recording artist. He lives on an 80-acre farm, not far from where he grew up. Named 2004 Roots-Americana Male Artist of the Year, his latest release "The Back Fields" was Best Americana Album~2006 in The Just Plain Folks Music Awards.
"An artist who never fails to deliver."
~ Dirty Linen
CARRIE NEWCOMER has released ten critically acclaimed albums on Rounder Records and is a national workshop leader and facilitator (songwriting, activism, spiritual vocation). Her song "I Should've Known Better" appeared on Nickel Creek's 2003 Grammy winning album "This Side."
"She's a poet, storyteller, snake-charmer, good neighbor, friend and lover, minister of the wide-eyed gospel of hope and grace."
~ Barbara Kingsolver, Author, Poisonwood Bible
TOM ROZNOWSKI is a singer and songwriter whose original music has been heard from Idaho to Siberia and all stops in between. He has lived most of his life in Indiana. His new CD is entitled "This Place In Time."
"Roznowski doesn't so much channel the voices of his forebears as internalize them in the service of sound."
MICHAEL WHITE's music landed him as a finalist in Musician Magazine's Best Unsigned Bands Competition, and his songs have been covered by artists as well known as Ricky Skaggs. He has produced four albums and continues to write songs and score music for television.
"Michael White's songs combine exceptionally poetic, intelligent lyrics with haunting, compelling melodies, presented with a mesmerizing voice..."
~ Carrie Newcomer, Rounder Recording Artist
SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS is a writer who lives in the hardwood hill country of southern Indiana. Among his more than twenty books are novels, collections of short stories, and works of personal nonfiction, including Staying Put, Hunting for Hope, and A Private History of Awe. He has taught for more than three decades at Indiana University, where he is a distinguished professor of English.
"The language of these tales is chiseled, spare to the point of folklore: every word carries a lovely weight. Seldom has America's early story been so beautifully told."
~ Publishers Weekly
Painting used with Permission of the Artist:
Mark Blaney
Graphic Design: Carol Sousa
Produced by: David Weber, Airtime Studio
Legal Representation: Robert Meitus,
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