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Joe Craven

Joe Craven is a nationally renowned creativity educator, former museum curator, visual artist, actor/storyteller, festival emcee, and recipient of the 2009 Far-West Folk Alliance Performer of the Year. He has made music with many folks ranging from jazz artists such as violinist Stephane Grappelli and Jason Marsalis, classical artists from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to percussionist Hans-Kristian Sorensen, and from Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia to the Persuasions.“Everything Joe touches turns to music,” says mandolinist David Grisman with whom Joe played for almost 17 years. An advocate of the folk arts, Joe’s educational mission is to empower individuals to take possession of what they already have, and demystify art as a daily ritual using self-expression.Joe has presented at numerous schools, universities, teacher in-services, music camps, corporations such as Wells Fargo and the American String Teachers Association.

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Watch Past Performances

Soldier Stories 12/11/11: Soldier Stories

This benefit concert for The Patriot Foundation features world-class string band music, sublime vocals and harmonies, and stories and letters from soldiers and their loved ones dating from the Revolutionary War to the present.

Soldier Stories

This benefit concert for The Patriot Foundation features world-class string band music, sublime vocals and harmonies, and stories and letters from soldiers and their loved ones dating from the Revolutionary War to the present.

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