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10-Dec-2010
Guy Klucevsek receives United States Artist Fellowship Award - USAby Rita Davidson Barnea |
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| Accordionist and composer, Guy Klucevsek, has been awarded a $50,000 United States Artist Fellowship grant. These unrestricted grants are awarded to "artists of all career stages who demonstrate artistic excellence, unique artistic vision, and significant contributions to their fields." This year's 52 USA Fellows represent some of the most innovative and diverse creative talents in the country. They include cutting-edge experimenters and traditional practitioners from the fields of architecture and design, crafts and traditional arts, dance, literature, film and media, music, theater arts, and visual arts. This marks the fifth year of the USA Fellows program and brings the total that USA has invested in living artists to $12.5 million since 2006! Guy Klucevsek performed "Chez Sechelles" composed by the fiddler, Michael Doucet on December 7,2010 at the "Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center" program. It was broadcast online live and viewed across the USA. The group Guy performed with was made up of previous United States Artists Fellows and Guy as the most recent awardee. Members of the band were: Guy Klucevsek (accordion), Cyro Baptista (percussion), Michael Doucet, (fiddle), Wu Man (pipa), Evan Ziporyn (clarinet). |