Old Town School of Folk Music to perform at IRMA
TNN 9 October 2009, 10:10pm IST

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VADODARA/ANAND, India: A group of faculty from world famous Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago will be performing at the Institute of Rural
Management Anand (IRMA) on Sunday.

Old Town School of Folk Music is the largest community school of the arts in the United States, which is actively pursuing international partnership opportunities both to bring master traditional artistes to Chicago for extended residencies and to generate opportunities for the school faculty to teach and perform abroad.

"This trip is supported through a grant from MacArthur Foundation," a release from IRMA said on Friday, adding that the diverse group travelling to India includes master of jazz tap dance Reggio the Hoofer' McLaughlin, teacher of guitar and theatre Mary Peterson, teacher of old and middle eastern music Ronnie Malley and master of punk and post-punk electric guitar styles Dan Fulkerson. "The delegation is led by executive director of the school James Bau Graves, who is a specialist in North American folk song styles and director of Kalapriya Foundation and teacher of Bharatnatyam Pranita Jain," the release added.