Featured Folk Artists

Folklife Performance

Musicians, Dancers & Storytellers

  • Jim Albertson (South Jersey musician: guitar, dulcimer, flute; singer, storyteller)
  • Bram Taylor (British folk singer)
  • Valerie Vaughn (South Jersey folk singer)
  • Barry Mitterhoff (Bluegrass, jazz: Mandolin)
  • Levent Firat (Turkish musician: Oud)
  • Bulent Coskuner (Turkish musician: Bağlama)
  • K.V. Mahabala (Indian musician: Sitar)
  • Polash Gomes (Indian musician: Tabla)
  • Alexander Siniavski (Russian musician: Balalaika)
  • John Langston (South Jersey bluegrass: Banjo)
  • McDermott’s Handy (Irish folk band)
  • Jodee James (Welsh folk singer)
  • Merita Halili (Albanian folk singer)
  • Raif Hyseni (Albanian musician)
  • Ahmet Lüleci (Turkish dancer)
  • Demetris Tashie (Greek dancer)
  • Ivaylo Koutchev (Bulgarian musician: kaval, tapan)
  • Ildiko Magyar (Hungarian dancer, musician)
  • Petrana Koutcheva (Bulgarian folk singer)
  • Patricia Rossello (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape storyteller)
  • “Red Blanket Singers” Leni Lenape Drummers group
  • Tyrese Torres (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape dancer)
  • Kreshan Figuerrora (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape dancer)
  • Betty Edwards (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape dancer)
  • Lea Gould (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape dancer)
  • Anna Pierce (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape dancer)
  • Christy Pierce (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape dancer)
  • Perry Loatman (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape dancer)
  • Jay Pierce (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape dancer)
  • Gage Webster (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape dancer)
  • Urie Ridgeway (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Council member and dancer)
  • Mark (Quiet Hawk) Gould (The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal chairman and dancer)
  • Elizabeth Munson (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape dancer)
  • Gail Gould (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape dancer)
  • “Seabrook Estonian Dancers”
  • Eevi Truumees (Estonian folk dancer)
  • Eva Brown (Estonian folk dancer)
  • Ivi Hall (Estonian folk dancer)
  • David Jones (English folk singer: music hall)

Crafters

  • Christy Pierce (Native American Leather Poaches making)
  • Roberta Flores (Native American Beadwork)
  • Walter Anderson (Native American Beadwork)
  • Mary Carty (Eastern Woodland Traditional Baskets)
  • Len Gould (Native American Beading, Flute making)
  • Dawn Gould Many Feathers (Native American Pine Needle Baskets)
  • Herbert Pierce (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Council member, drum maker)
  • William Mosley (Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Council member, singer)
  • Selma Virunurum (Estonian embroidery, woodwork)
  • Merry May (South Jersey quilter)
  • Eudokia Sorochoniuk (Ukrainian weaving and embroidery: “nyzynka” stitch
  • Nina Kujdich (Ukrainian embroidery)
  • Dorothy Turner (South Jersey rug braiding)
  • Fusaye Kazaoka (Japanese origami, silk and “bunka” Embroidery
  • Aleksandra Pilberg (Estonian embroidery)
  • Joyce Baltus (Jewish embroidery: needlepoint)
  • Betty Sesskin (Jewish embroidery: needlepoint)
  • Esther Distenfeld (Jewish embroidery: needlepoint)
  • Sonya Constantinov Lahov (Russian Old Orthodox embroidery)
  • Babushka Zaleskin (Russian Old Orthodox embroidery)
  • Ekaterina Kourakin (Russian Old Orthodox embroidery)
  • Kludia Kovalou (Russian Old Orthodox embroidery)
  • Klaudia Bobkovs (Russian Old Orthodox Icon Painting)
  • Michael and Josephine Cibuliew (Russian Old Orthodox Candle makers)
  • Irene Filipov (Russian Embroidery)
  • Tatjana Moore (Russian Embroidery)
  • Phyllis Walker (African American quilter, folk singer)
  • Emese Kerkay (American Hungarian embroidery, Easter eggs decorating)