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Where are they now ....
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Thomas Downing is a singer, violinist, fiddler, teacher and
children's choral conductor. She founded the Peabody Children's Chorus
(Baltimore) and is founder and current Artistic Director of the Virginia
Children's Chorus (Norfolk).
Since her days in Cross Country, "T" has become an avid, rabid
collector and performer of Irish ballads and fiddle tunes. She travels
to the west coast of
Ireland
regularly to feed her habit. With her husband Frank, she plays
Appalachian,
New
England
and
Celtic tunes with the "Live Music" contra dance band, and is a
regular singer/fiddler at pub sessions in
SE
Virginia
.
Ned
Quist is a music librarian by day and contra dance musician or
dancer by night. Since his Cross Country days, he’s moved to
Providence
,
RI
where
he’s the Music Librarian at
Brown
University
.
With his wife, Alice Pace and fiddler Andy Grover, he’s a
member of “White Squall”, a contra dance band that plays regularly
in
Rhode
Island
,
Connecticut
and
Massachusetts
and
recently made its first tour of upstate NY playing in Rochester,
Ithaca
and
Binghamton
. This
past Spring we had the pleasure of playing with Steve Zakon-Anderson,
former chef extraordinaire at the
Dublin
School
and
one of the top dance callers in
New
England
.
John
Yankee has continued his cross-country adventures ever since leaving
Baltimore
.
In 1994 he settled in Telluride,
Colorado
,
where he built a music curriculum in the school system, formed the
Telluride Choral Society (children and adult choruses), and revived the
town’s chamber orchestra. He
also worked with the Telluride Rep and participated in Telluride’s
Bluegrass
, Jazz
and Chamber Music festivals. With
all the spare time on his hands, Yankee taught himself hammered dulcimer
and formed the folk/Celtic quartet “Acoustic Medicine” and also led
his own jazz combo “Yankee Boy Swing” on trumpet and vocals.
Since July 2004, after a two-year ‘walkabout’ during which he
literally criss-crossed the US several times enjoying residencies
ranging from conducting in Chicago to composing in the Badlands, John
has resided in San Diego, where he currently schemes to build new and
exciting things once again.
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