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• Larry & Joe are a musical duo currently based in the Triangle of North Caroline. Larry Bellorín hails from Monagas, Venezuela and is a legend of Llanera music. Joe Troop is from North Carolina and is a GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and oldtime musician. Larry was forced into exile and is an asylum seeker in North Carolina. Joe, after a decade in South America, got stranded back in his stomping grounds in the pandemic. Larry works construction to make ends meet. Joe's acclaimed "latingrass" band Che Apalache was forced into hiatus, and he shifted into action working with asylum seeking migrants.

• Both men are versatile multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters on a mission to show that music has no borders. As a duo they perform a fusion of Venezuelan and Appalachian folk music on harp, banjo, cuatro, fiddle, guitar, maracas and whatever else they decide to throw in the van. The program they offer features a distinct blend of their musical inheritances and traditions as well as storytelling about the ways that music and social movements coalesce.

• Schedule:

• Thursday August 31st, 2023

• 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Free Public Workshop 1 - FAC Recital Hall (189) - 1.5 hours for demo and 30 minutes for questions

• Larry & Joe will teach students “El Gavilán Tocuyano de Pablo Canela,” something like the “Orange Blossom Special” of the Venezuelan fiddle tradition. This class is oriented towards intermediate/advanced fiddlers and cellists, but anyone that plays a melodic instrument can participate by learning the melody. Larry will also teach the chords to students wishing just to strum along. Joe will interpret.

• 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Free Performance on Campus - FAC Recital Hall (189)

• Friday, September 1st, 2023

• Workshop 2: 3:00 pm -5:00 pm - BG Rock Academy - FAC Recital Hall (189) - 1.5 for demo and 30 minutes for questions

• Larry & Joe will teach students a two-chord gabán, a fundamental rhythmic and harmonic structure of la música llanera in 6/8. Students will learn how strings are used percussively through muting and golpes to create the iconic joropo feel. Though they will use the cuatro (an instrument intrinsically bound to the Venezuelan identity) as a teaching tool, this language is translatable to other string instruments like the banjo.

Pregame Performance
Halftime Performance

This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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What's Next for Seniors

This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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Owensboro School Partner Coffee Hour 

Luncheon for High-Achieving Scholars

Presentation by Dr. Nichols Hartlep, Associate Professor of Education Studies and Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education, Berea College. A leading authority on the model minority stereotype, Dr. Hartlep will untangle the model minority stereotype of Asian/Americans in a way that will illuminate three racist elements of the model minority myth's sophistry and discursive nature, and its reliance on dog whistle politics. This talk will draw from three of his previous books: The Model Minority Stereotype: Demystifying Asian American Success, The Model Minority Stereotype Reader: Critical and Challenging Readings for the 21st Century and Killing the Model Minority Stereotype: Asian American Counter Stories and Complicity.  

This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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English Department Student Convocation

This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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Kick the Clock

Pregame Performance
Halftime Performance

Faculty Clarinet Recital  -- Dr. John Cipolla

Luncheon for High Achieving Students from Nashville

This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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Elizabethtown School Partner Coffee Hour  

High Achieving Student Luncheon for Students from Etown

This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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Robert Penn Warren Lecture

Robert Penn Warren Lecture

This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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Living Archaeology Weekend 

Horse Cave Heritage Festival: “Heart to Hart” Oral History

• An interactive booth in which festival goers would be able to document their story about a topic that means a lot to both them and to the Horse Cave/Hart County Communities. Individuals will meet us at the Thomas House, we will have an interview-like oral history discussion on said topic, and afterwards these individuals would walk away with a USB of the recording, submission into an archive, a cool button, and maybe a possible contribution to a webpage or archive in the future!

• WKU Folk Studies Grads and Minors will be aiding

• Dr. Ann Ferrell's Oral History Classes will be aiding

Post-Game Performance

Tours with Massive Capacities and Multiple Start Times

WKU Choirs

Luncheon from High Achieving Students Who Live in Counties Surrounding Warren 

Networking with Nonprofits

Luncheon for High Achieving Students from Warren County and Bowling Green

Brown Bag Lecture 

WKU Art & Design Faculty Exhibit Reception

This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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Northern Kentucky School Partner Coffee Hour. 

High Acheiving Students for Students from Owensboro

This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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WKU Symphony 

The Elephant 6 Recording Co. shares the unique inside story of the collective creative evolution behind the sounds of 1990s psychedelic rock bands like the Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, and the Apples in Stereo--the founding groups behind the Elephant 6 collective, as well as a host of other artists--with inspirational resonance for today's music makers and music lovers everywhere.

Free tickets are available at capitolbg.org. In partnership with SKY Arts Film Festival, The Elephant 6 Recording Co. is our kickoff for the 2023-2024 Southern Circuit Film Series. Tickets for this screening and the whole Southern Circuit Film Series are FREE and co-sponsored by WKU and the PCAL Cultural Enhancement Series.

WKU Symphony ticket details can be found at the Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Box Office.

This traveling exhibition features the works of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) visual artists living in Kentucky, who share their experiences of the Commonwealth. Sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council in partnership with the Asia Institute-Crane House and the Kentucky Chinese American Association. 

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WKU Symphonic Band 

WKU Choirs

WKU Symphonic Band 

Join us for the first Fall 2023 choir concert.

Symphonic Band Concert
Van Meter Auditorium

Luncheon for High Acheiving Students from Lexington

Hispanic Recipe Showcase

Luncheon for High Acheiving Students from Louisville

Artist Talk & Workshop with Georganna Greene

History Department Mixer

Turning Points: Three Short Plays

WKU Steelband Concert

Somerset School Partner Coffee Hour

Luncheon for High Acheiving Students from Somerset

We C U at WKU: A Multicultural Preview Day. 

Turning Points: Three Short Plays

Pregame Performance
Halftime Performance