Preview Of The 2014 Montana Folk Festival, July 11-13, Uptown Butte

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Klezmer fiddler, Alicia Svigals

7/9/14: This week on the Wednesday Special, 1:25-1:55pm (following Moyers and Company):  a preview of the 2014 Montana Folk Festival, July 11 - 13, uptown Butte. Clark Grant talks with three musicians featured at the festival:

Fiddler Alical Svigals, leader of Alicia Svigals Klezmer Fiddle Express; 

Kurdish tanbur player, Ali Akbar Moradi

Kurdish tanbur virtuoso, Ali Akbar Moradi and his son, Kourosh;

Gospel family bandleader and singer, Maggie Ingram

and 84-year-old gospel singer Maggie Ingram and her daughter, Almeta.

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Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.