Name: Bluegrass Belongs to Us All: Creating an Inclusive Environment at Your Event, Gig, and in your Career
Start: 2016-09-28T08:30:00-0400
End: 2016-09-28T09:30:00-0400

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Bluegrass Belongs to Us All: Creating an Inclusive Environment at Your Event, Gig, and in your Career

As the Bluegrass community grows, increasingly reflecting the musics' deep and diverse roots, more fans and artists from various backgrounds and with different points of view are brought together. A diverse group of artists and industry professionals will share their own experiences, and lead an exploration of what we can all do to respectfully communicate with one another and create an inclusive environment wherever we find ourselves.

Moderators

Trisha Tubbs

Event Producer, Wintergrass

Trisha is the facilitator for IBMA’s Leadership Bluegrass Program. In addition to her work with that program, she’s also co-produced the IBMA awards show and has been a member of many IBMA committees over the years. When she isn’t helping Bluegrass professionals, she has been... Read More →

Speakers

Phil Bankester

Phil Bankester spent his career working in the marketing and communications department of Southern Illinois University. Thirteen years ago his family (four daughters and wife) started playing bluegrass. He’s been touring and recording with them ever since. He is a video producer... Read More →

Aengus Finnan

Executive Director of Folk Alliance since 2014, Finnan lends a lifetime of music and community organizing to a broad overview of many cultures and many people finding their way to each other through music. Born in Dublin, Ireland and raised in Ontario, Canada, Aengus has a long history... Read More →

Justin Hiltner

A 2017 Leadership Bluegrass alumnus, Justin Hiltner is the social media director for the Bluegrass Situation, curating content for more than 250,000 followers across their channels. He covers bluegrass for BGS, writing the columns "That Ain't Bluegrass," "Shout & Shine," and more... Read More →

Kaia Kater

martha@quicksilverproductions.net, Booking: Martha Stracener Dantzic

Kaia Kater is lauded for being one of the youngest performers in the roots scene, and at 22 years old, there’s not much arguing her progeny. But what’s special is that she’s blowing up the roots music scene in spite of her age, not because of it. Her old-time banjo-picking skills... Read More →

Kimber Ludiker

Born of fiddle playing parents in Spokane, WA, Kimber Ludiker is a 5th generation fiddle player who finally picked one up at the age of 3. With 11 combined family National Fiddle Championships, Kimber holds 3 herself. She is a multi-instrumentalist, picking up the cello, mandolin... Read More →

Sav Sankaran

Professional upright bassist/vocalist, fly fisherman, itinerant intellectual, Indian-American, Sav Sankaran studied at Gettysburg College and Penn State. Asheville, NC. He toured both domestically and internationally from 2009 to 2012 with renowned bluegrass/Americana outfit The Dixie... Read More →

Wednesday September 28, 2016 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
Raleigh Convention Center Room 304

Conf. Track: General Session Event: Business Conference

World of Bluegrass 2016