Dan Ansotegui, Basque Tradition Bearer. Dan was a recipient of the 2019 National Endowment for the Arts’ National Heritage Award. (Photo Gregg Mizuta.)
ydney Anderson’s belt buckle. Sydney is the recipient of a 2021 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program award. She will work with master silversmith Dave Alderson for a year to build her skills and techniques.
Musician, composer and producer, Philip Aaberg
On this week's Northwest Arts Review, a conversation with the Idaho Arts Commission's Director of Folk and Traditional Arts, Steven Hatcher, also Chris Maccini lets us know about a special virtual event mounted by Auntie's Bookstore this weekend, we'll hear a musical tribute on the 100th birthday anniversary of a legendary Spokane teacher, Margie May Ott, and Nathan Weinbender lets us know about a pair of new films that paint a less than ideal portrait of 1950s America.
Steven Hatcher, Director of Folk and Traditional Arts for the Idaho Arts Commission
After more than 25 years of teaching music, theater and English in San Francisco schools, Jim relocated to Spokane in 1995 to become organist/music director for St. Augustine Parish on the South Hill. Since around 2004, with the help and patience of Verne Windham, he has been able to realize his long-standing dream of doing radio. Jim specializes in classical music, but also can do the occasional jazz show. Jim and his wife, Carol, fill their free time caring for llamas, rabbits and chickens after having watched their two children grow up and leave the nest.
