Evie Ladin is a banjo player, singer, songwriter, percussive-dancer, choreographer and square-dance caller. Evie grew up steeped in traditional folk music/dance, and brings a contemporary vision to her compositions and choreography. Evie’s performances, recordings and teaching reconnect Appalachian music/dance with other African-Diaspora traditions, and have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to Celtic Connections. Based in Oakland, CA, Evie tours with Keith Terry and the Evie Ladin Band; and has produced 8 CDs and two instructional DVDs. In the percussive dance world, she is Executive Director of the International Body Music Festival, directs the moving choir MoToR/dance, does educational outreach with Crosspulse, and is an ace freestyle flatfooter. In the trad world, Evie teaches clawhammer banjo and harmony singing at the infamous Freight & Salvage, online at Peghead Nation and numerous camps and events. She leads rowdy square dance parties, getting every body easily dancing. In the songwriter world, she just writes great songs, subtitling her own band “neo-trad kinetic folk." In 2019 she released two CDs, celebrating both of her musical sides: one totally trad fiddle/banjo duets with 17 different fiddlers, Riding the Rooster, and one adventurous originals, Caught On A Wire. A highly entertaining performer, Evie enjoys facilitating arts learning in diverse communities. “The best example I have seen of a Neo-Trad band's sound being authentically anchored in old time music but extending it into new and entertaining directions.” —Founder, Clifftop Appalachian Stringband Festival www.evieladin.com

Keith Terry is a percussionist/rhythm-dancer/educator whose artistic vision has straddled the line between music and dance for more than four decades. He is the Founding/Artistic Director of Crosspulse, an Oakland, CA –based, non-profit organization dedicated to the creation and performance of rhythm-based intercultural music and dance, and has produced more than a dozen CDs, DVDs and Books for Crosspulse Media. He has collaborated with many performing artists including Charles ‘’Honi’’ Coles, Turtle Island Quartet, Jazz Tap Ensemble, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, San Jose Taiko, and Bobby McFerrin. His groups - Slammin All-Body Band, Crosspulse Percussion Ensemble, Professor Terry’s Circus Band Extraordinaire, Body Tjak (with I Wayan Dibia) and other projects have appeared at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NY), Grand Performances (LA), Bumbershoot (WA), NPR’s All Things Considered, PRI's The World, the Vienna International Dance Festival, Vancouver Island MusicFest, the Bali Arts Festival, and many more. As Artistic Director of the International Body Music Festival, Keith has solidified Body Music as a genre, galvanizing a global community. He tours extensively in the Americas, Asia and Europe, where his Body Music workshops, residencies and choreographic commissions are popular among professional performers and educators. He also tours on bass and percussion with the Evie Ladin Band. Keith has been on the faculty at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures, where he designed and taught a dozen courses on the relationship of music and dance; deep listening; synchronicity, time, and timing; and intercultural communication. He is a Guggenheim and Asian Cultural Council Fellow. Mr. Terry and his colleagues in action is like visiting an anatomical carnival, where hands, feet, fingers, bellies, rumps and mouths engage in an endless musical ballet. — Wall Street Journal www.keithterry.com