Pandemic Arts Streaming Series

Pandemic Arts Streaming Series

Pandemic Arts is a streaming series featuring performing artists talking about how the global pandemic has affected their careers, their creativity, their finances, and their vision of the future. This is a video series specially re-edited for audio podcast.

Episode 10: Kat Williams

Kat Williams is a blues and jazz singer living in Asheville, NC. She was a finalist on “America's Got Talent” and she has appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” She is also program director for the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department.

 

Episode 9: The Story Behind a Song

“When the Water Goes Down,” story and song. Filmed at Echo Mountain Recording Studio in Asheville, NC. Cinematography by Jan Balster and Will McIntyre; Key Swing- Nick Iway; edited by Deni McIntyre.

 

Episode 8: Tray Wellington

Tray Wellington is a promising young musician who has won the Momentum Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association. In his senior year at East Tennessee State University, he was looking forward to touring with a new album after graduation; but with the advent of COVID, his plans for the immediate future had to change.

Think there's been enough happening during the pandemic? Amythyst Kiah recorded a new album, moved, and saw her father through a hospital stay. Oh—and she decided to get in shape. At least she hasn't been bored!

 

Episode 6: John McCutcheon

Folk music icon John McCutcheon is featured in this episode about self-quarantining, songwriting, and mastering the challenges of making virtual concerts into a personal and dynamic experience.

This episode focuses on the Flat Rock Playhouse, the State Theatre of North Carolina, and an interview with Lisa K. Bryant, the theatre's producing artistic director. It also features dance segments performed by Matthew Glover and a scene from “The Love List” read by Scott Treadway and Bill Munoz.

This episode features Scott Woody, one of the family owners of Isis Music Hall in Asheville, NC. It also features a performance by Aaron Burdett of his song “Can't Carry the Load.”

Episode 3: Jennifer and Darren Nicholson

This episode features Balsam Range mandolinist and vocalist Darren Nicholson and his wife, Jennifer, a musician and vocalist who also teaches high school music courses.

Four-time Grammy winner David Holt. The year of the global pandemic is a year he had booked lots of concerts, was scheduled to film Season 5 of “David Holt's State of Music,” is battling a (non-fatal) neurological disease, and is preparing to become a grandfather.

Episode 1:  Zoe & Cloyd

Natalya Zoe Weinstein and John Cloyd Miller, a young married couple who perform as Zoe and Cloyd. Natalya comes from a family of jazz musicians and plays klezmer music as well as traditional mountain music on her fiddle; John's grandfather was Jim Shumate, who played fiddle with Bill Monroe and also the Flatt and Scruggs band. Natalya and John live in Fairview, NC with their 5-year-old daughter, Cady.

 

Pandemic Arts is a production of Will & Deni Films for the Will & Deni McIntyre Foundation, and is made possible by the generous support of: Rhea Bigelow Charitable Trust, Carlyle Adams Foundation, Community Foundation of Henderson County and its Perry N. Rudnick Endowment, Lauren & Fred Weed, Myrna Harris.