Great Art, Big Ideas Podcast
Festival 2025 Playlist

AFTER DINNER STORIES: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE KEEPERS
Indigenous storytellers Darlene Kascak, Kinsale Hueston, and Anne Jennison share stories of tradition and Indigenous culture during Native American Heritage Month.

ARTS FOR LABOR: The Kennedy Administration
A group of New York musical all-stars, Kennedy Administration holds down a regular engagement at a popular Greenwich Village nightclub, Groove, while racking up milestones internationally. Since 2015...

ART FOR LABOR: Paco Godoy y su Gran Orquestra Internacional
Born in Ecuador, Paco gave his first piano recital at age 5. A musical prodigy, he has recorded numerous CD’s and collaborated with international legendary Latin American artists like Franco de Vita...

ARTS FOR LABOR: Mulan Art Dance Ensemble & Team Leggoo
Team Leggoo
Established in 2011, Team Leggoo is a professional dance company of young, aspiring dancers who train in various styles of dance while pursuing growth and development as teachers,...

ARTS FOR LABOR: AnUrbanNerd (Josh Brown) & Darlene Kascak
AnUrbanNerd (Josh Brown)
AnUrbanNerd has been writing and performing for more than 15 years. He is a Poet, Spoken Word artist and Rap artist with a background in education and engineering. He brings...

ARTS FOR LABOR: Dawn Tallman
Dawn Tallman, The Queen of Gospel Energy was born and raised in Danbury, Connecticut, where she began singing in the house of God from childhood. Later, she expanded her body of work into the R&B and...

ARTS FOR LABOR: The Tines
The Tines are a new outfit helmed by New Haven Connecticut’s S.G. Carlson.The band was formed as a recording project in late 2019 featuring members of Ports of Spain, Laundry Day, Quiet Giant, and...

MWENSO AND THE SHAKES
Imagine the sound of a caravan journeying through the Milky Way, with reverberating guitars, plaintive, perfectly pitched vocals, bending horns and a “charismatic” (NPR), commanding captain. Mwenso...

Stir The Style
We’re breaking the “rules” of narrative events with Stir the Style, exhibiting every method of storytelling imaginable -- from spoken word to poetry to folktelling to personal narratives to rap and...

OPEN MIC NIGHT
Come out to Open Mic Night at the Festival Center for an evening of listening and being heard. The show will be emceed by professional performing artist and mentor Influence (Sharmont Little), with...

DARREL WALLS
Multi-Grammy-nominated Gospel songwriter and vocalist Darrel Walls is the eldest of the four siblings comprising The Walls Group, a Houston, Texas based singing quartet raised on the tradition of...