Humanities Project News
Greg Klyma is the Rust Belt Vagabond—a home-cooked meal and a Vaudeville show in a fast food, karaoke world.
Mark Dvorak has been teaching American folk music and blues at Chicago’s venerable Old Town School of Folk Music since 1986.
Jennings and Keller will take their audience on a musical journey through the earlier part of the twentieth century.
Brian Wendling is a National Team Juggling Champion who has been dazzling audiences for 30 years.
Consuelo Samarippa will be performing in Coffeyville the week of August 27.
Cornish’s tour in Montgomery County will start on Monday, April 30th at the Coffeyville Meal Site, Sycamore Landing and Windsor Place Assisted Living before arriving at the Spencer/Rounds Theatre on the CCC Campus at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 1st.
Elaine Romanelli’s music melds lyrical melodies, intimate storytelling, charm, si...
Kansas native, Doug Harvey was drawn to Celtic music as a young man. The sound of vibrating strings led him to the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kan. where he first heard authentic Irish music and he has not been the same since.
John Sherman has been a performer of traditional and Celtic music for the last two decades.
Kitty Donohoe will entertain with ‘Songs of Michigan and the Great Lakes’ in a folk song and story-based program that focuses on several unique cultural and historical elements of the region, including lumbering, the early fur trade and voyageurs, mining and lighthouses.
Eric Lambert has been playing guitar professionally for over forty years. Influenced by Duane Allman and Dickey Betts at an early age, Lambert discovered country and bluegrass music through the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album "Will the Circle Be Unbroken."
Tim Southwick Johnson is an accomplished performer on the acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, tenor guitar, ukulele and harmonica.
Gary McCurdy, The Tubador, is a self-contained solo tuba performer that appeals to audiences from the elderly to the very young.
Daniel Boling is a songwriter with a storyteller’s ear for detail and a balladeer’s turn of phrase. His songs are inhabited by interesting characters drawn from Daniel’s life, family and friends.
Darrell Mullinax will perform in CCC's Humanities Project the week of Feb. 6.
A sixth generation central Illinois resident, Tom Irwin relates the experiences of rural Midwestern life through original songs, folk music and stories.
Leonardo Biciunas is a Chicago based musician who will bring his high energy, humorous, and interactive performance to entertain and amuse. Biciunas will perform in Coffeyville the week of Jan. 23.
Danny Santos will be performing the week of Nov. 14 as part of CCC's Humanities Project.
Phil Lancaster will share his multi-media program entitled “Riders on the Orphan Train.” This program combines live music, archival photographs/video and storytelling for audiences of all ages.
Everman’s tour in Montgomery County will start on Monday October 31 at the Coffeyville Meal Site, Sycamore Landing and Windsor Place Assisted Living before arriving at the Spencer/Rounds Theatre on the CCC Campus at 10:20 a.m. on Tuesday, November 1.
Cross two famous guys named Brooks - Garth and Mel - and you get Austin folksinger Steve Brooks.
Holly Reed will performs at local sites and at CCC the week of Oct. 17
Tom Kastle takes his audience on a journey through America’s waterways, from sea to shining sea and a few in between.
Dennis Stroughmatt’s fast swing, fiddling and storytelling will lead audiences through the early years of Old Time Radio and share how music brought America through The Great Depression, WWII, and beyond.
Amy & Adams, the week of Sept. 26's humanities performers, trace the history of Tin Pan Alley which most agree has been the dominant force in American and perhaps World musical history.