Sunday, September 14, 2008

Peg Oswald






From early childhood on, drawing has always been a love of mine. I was fortunate to have an excellent art teacher at the public school
I attended in upstate New York from whom I received art instruction from kindergarten through high school. Even though I had a career
as an elementary classroom teacher, I continued to take art classes to be able to give instruction to my pupils and always took
a sketch book with me on my travels.



It wasn’t until retirement that I discovered the joy of working in clay and the fun of creating paintings with pastels. I continue to take
pottery classes with Terry Shepherd at the Art Center in Grand Junction throwing on the potter’s wheel and hand building. I love the
whole process of creating a piece then adding slips, stains or glazes to achieve a certain look. Watching that piece come out of a firing
(whether from a gas, raku or salt kiln) is like Christmas morning. There is almost always a surprise. I find it quite addictive!

Working with pastels has allowed me to add wonderful color to my drawing. I love the brilliance of the colors and textures
you can achieve with them. Now a small box of pastels goes with me on my travels. Sara Oakley got me started on pastels and
now I am teaching a pastel class for beginners.

I have shown my art work at the Art Center, Crystal Café, Planet Earth Gallery and downtown where I have participated in Friday Art Hop
and the Thursday night Farmer’s market. I reside in Grand Junction , Colorado with my husband and 4 cats.-Peg

Greg Luff



For as long as I can remember I have been an artist. I have always been fascinate with light, color and shape. I am a senior at Palisade High School.
For the last seven years I have worked in clay and two years ago I began working in glass. This year I have combined the two,
creating mixed media pieces of functional art in addition to pendants, vortex and floral marbles, and beads.
In addition to glass, I use only naturally found gems, shells, pearls and silver findings in my jewelry pieces.

I have named my business Elements of Earth. It reflects my deep respect and appreciation for nature.
Our surrounding canyons, mesas, orchards, farmland and desert are the inspiration for much of my work.

It was not until I took a trip to Great Britian as a student ambassador for People to People that I became focused on glass as an artform.
The visit to Waterford Crystal Factory literally changed my life. I came back determined to learn and create in this medium.

After acquiring the proper equipment, I had about six months of experimentation on my own.
After school was out, I was able to attend classes at Glasscraft in Denver and the Eugene School of Glass in Oregon.
I was also fortunate to be accepted into Snow Farm in Massachusetts.
Snow Farm is part of the New England Arts and Crafts Program and run specifically for high school students.

I appreciate your interest in my art and hope you enjoy your purchases!

Vera Mulder



www.artyme.org

Having been an artist ever since I can remember, there is no need to reiterate the place art occupies in my life.
I remember drawing on whatever had a blank surface. I wanted to design clothes so I drew my own paper dolls and designed some “hum-dinger” outfits.
I only wish I still had some of these.
There were no art classes where I attended school, first through 12th grade. When teachers found out I could draw, Whamo!…
I was kept busy drawing this and that for bulletin boards. I don’t remember painting anything until my high school science teacher talked my parents into
buying a set of oil paints and brushes for me. Then she gave me a colored reprint of a landscape to copy onto a canvas board.
I soon figured out how to use the oils with linseed oil and turpentine. I matched the colors exactly without knowing the fundamentals of
color theory by mixing a tiny bit of this and of that, and comparing my mix to the color on the print.
College art class 101 was my first exposure to art classes of any kind. The big learning curve here was to learn that details don’t always belong in every work of art,
that there is simplicity of design and abstraction.
I attended college at a time I earned a K-12 teaching certificate with minors in art and music. Then I proceeded to amass enough hours in art, art history and
studio art to fulfill a doctorate. Of course, I never used those credits toward an art degree. Yet I have taught art for nearly four decades, writing curriculums,
starting the high school program at a high school, giving workshops locally and throughout the state, displaying my art in various shows and constantly
learning something new every day about some aspect of the arts. And, yes, I aced the art placement test required by State government for teachers a few years ago.
Therefore I have tried every genre, technique that I come in contact with. Because of my tendency to want to explore everything,
I have had a difficult time settling on only a few mediums. These include clay, especially hand building; batik, because this process slow me down and
requires planning; watercolor which is the hardest medium of all, leaving no room for mistakes and of course photography.
With the age of digital, Adobe and Paint Programs allow even more creativity.
In the years to come, I know there will be new things to learn and to try.
Inspiration can be found everywhere if you keep your eyes, ears, and mind open. Creativity is the key.



BATIK
Batik is a technique dating back 2000 some years to the Island of Java where somehow natives discovered how to decorate cloth made of
plant fibers through a resist method. One uses some type of resist, which could have been tree sap back then, applies this to a surface and adds color over the area.
When all has dried, the resist is removed and presto, there remains a design in the color of the original surface.
One may repeat this step as often as he/she has different colors BUT the key is to go from light to dark, being sure all dries in-between steps.
Of course, at each step the artist paints resist over the newly applied and dry color before adding another. He/she must remember as well,
what happens when certain colors are placed over others, for example, blue over yellow will create greens.
This art form can be decorative, used on fibers or used on clay surfaces. It can be an art form creating portraits, scenes, action or other subject matter.
One’s imagination and creative spin are the only limits to this exciting art technique.

Betsy McLoughlin





Betsy McLoughlin, a Grand Junction resident, is primarily a self-taught artist who has been drawing and painting all her life.
Her artwork has often had to be deferred, though, due to her decades-long profession as a Spanish teacher
and her recent full-time job as a Spanish professor at Mesa State College. Nevertheless, Betsy has continued to sketch and paint as much as she can,
and since moving to Grand Junction in 1986 has sold her artwork and won various awards on the Western Slope.
Her painting had to be deferred in the early 1990's when she returned to college to obtain her doctorate in Spanish literature.
However, upon returning to Mesa State, she decorated her office with large watercolors that she painted of tropical beach scenes mounted in old window frames.
She continued creating these windows for others, featuring them in various shows and now a number of people in Grand Junction have some of Betsy's windows.



Since retirement, though, Betsy has been creating smaller watercolor paintings as well, practicing skills she was taught in workshops in California and Colorado.
Carrying a sketchbook with her wherever she goes, she is focusing now on landscapes and everyday scenes.
She has especially enjoyed painting fall and winter scenery and has also been creating a variety of "Christmas" paintings,
whether of snowmen, wintery sunsets, cats looking out of a window, or Southwestern adobe houses decorated with Christmas luminarias.
Betsy and her husband recently converted a basement room into her "art/project room," so she is now ready to spend much more time painting.
You can expect to see her artwork appearing before long in various places around town, including Willow Pond Bed & Breakfast.



betsymlc@aol.com

Piera Kllanxjha

www.artistsregister.com/artists/CO199
www.newartcollectors.com




Having spent the first four years of her life in Aspen, Colorado, when it was just another small mountain town,
Western Colorado has continuously drawn Piera back to her roots. As a young girl she was enthralled with the adventures in beauty,
exploring the Rocky Mountains on foot and on horseback. Piera has worked with clay since childhood:
along with drawing, it is the clearest way for her to express the particular joy she finds in Southwest nature.
The line of the cave drawings and the ancient Anasazi pottery, evokes a chorus of melodic forms.
Nature's dance, captured in Anasazi line, is expressed in Piera's pottery and painting.

Piera has spent time in France, Spain, England, Scotland, and Italy, has a B.A. in Fine Arts, an A.A. in Commercial Art,
and was an Art Director in Denver. She began perfecting her pottery designs in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the 1970's.
She discovered crystalline glazing in Abiquiu, N.M. in 1991. Although the exploding atoms can be seen in the crystal glazes as modern,
Piera sees them as most truly reflecting the magic of clay and heat that has always invested Southwest pottery with its strength and mystery.

Piera's Crystal Glaze Process



Crystal glazes are unique. The crystals in the glaze are formed by exploding
atoms in the glaze, that means that during the firing process, the glaze is
in the process of becoming a glass that is covering the pot of clay.

How this occurs has a few different factors. One is the chemical
composition of the glaze ( i.e. glass). Another is the temperature that the
firing is at the various times of the process, allowing this chemical reaction to occur.

For all pottery is usually covered with a glaze then fired, so it is with crystals, but certain details are varied.
The pot has to be placed on top of a catcher basin to absorb the run-off of the glaze in firing.
These details involve the make up of the glaze (that becomes glass), what chemicals go into the glaze,
the rate the temperature rises, and finally the holding temperature (that creates the exploding atoms in the glass).
And, as important, is the cooling rate.

Crystalline Glazes are a wonderful combination of art & science, where one
never can plan or guess the actual result. This adds to the mystery of art and life!

Efrat Dalton



Come see the vintage stylings of Elfrat Dalton at Willow Pond!
Darling charms, bracelets, necklaces, ornaments, greeting cards and bookmarks! Too cute!

Efrat Dalton is the artist and founder of E. Designs Boutique. She is a self-taught artist who has loved to draw and paint since childhood. Through the years, she developed her own style and technique using a variety of media including computer art, ceramics and jewelry design. After family and friends encouraged her to start showing and selling her beautiful creations with the rest of the world, she launched her business in the fall of 2002 and started an on line boutique in 2008. She has lived near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado since 1987.

Most of her work is hand-crafted one-of-a-kind originals or limited editions; she uses the finest materials available.
A bilingual artist, she describes her art as, "the unspoken language of my soul." Using mixed media and vintage materials enables her to express herself in a variety of styles.

Artist statement: Each piece of jewelry/art that I create is a reflection of the abundant creativity I am blessed with and my love for beauty. I credit all my creations to the divine world.
I'm it's instrument and it works through me. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say
"I used everything that you blessed me with." My wish and hope for you is that when you purchase my art, you will feel the joy and love it was created with.

www.edesignsboutique.com

Cullen Purser




The Grand Valley's own Cullen Purser, will perform an intimate concert of original material.
Cullen's lyrics and melodies will charm and captivate you with their emotional tenderness and intellect.

Cullen is a local luthier and runs guitar making workshops out of his workshop in Fruita.

Cullen is also a member of a terrific acoustic bluegrass band, The Late Great String Band.
You can hear some of their songs, recorded live in the Willow Pond Garden room on their myspace page:

www.myspace.com/lategreatstringband

Elinor Frey



www.elinorfrey.com

Hailed as an "Impeccable cellist" by Montreal's La Presse, Elinor Frey is an active recitalist and chamber musician.
She is recognized for presenting dynamic and personal performances for her audiences.
Next season's highlights include Elinor's long-term residency at the Banff Centre; a recital tour at Cornell University and central New York;
performances at the American Academy in Rome, Italy; performing the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Rogue Valley Symphony;
and the release of Elinor's debut album of solo cello and duo works with pianist David Fung on the Yarlung Records label.
An advocate of new music, Elinor has served as the cellist of the Aspen Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble in 2004/5.
With the New Juilliard Ensemble, she gave the New York premiere of Betsy Jolas's concerto, "Wanderlied" in Alice Tully Hall.
She also gave the July 2007 world premiere of Steven Stucky's "Dialoghi", a solo cello piece written for her.
As a touring chamber musician, Elinor has performed throughout the US and Canada, including solo appearances with
the Edmonton and Bartlesville Symphonies.

Elinor is winner of the 2004 Ladies Musical Club of Seattle competition and the Virtu Foundation Scholarship.
Through generous grants from supporters, Elinor plays on a beautiful 1962 Mario Gadda cello and
a superb Charles Espey bow which she recently commissioned.

Elinor received a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School in May 2005 and
a Bachelor of Music from the Mannes College of Music in 2001.
Her principal teachers were Bonnie Hampton, Hans Jensen, Orlando Cole, and Barbara Mallow.
Elinor is an alumna of numerous festivals including Kneisel Hall, the Norfolk Contemporary Session, and the Fontainebleau Music Festival.
As a solo cello & chamber music educator with complete Suzuki training, Elinor has served on the faculties of the Hudson River School,
the Music Institute of Long Island, Guelph Youth Music Center, and the 2007 Ithaca College Chamber Music Institute.
For the summer 2008 season, she will return to the faculties of CAMMAC Ontario and the Ithaca Suzuki Institute,
and will join the faculty of Orvieto Musica in Orvieto, Italy.

Noteworthy Duo



http://www.noteworthyduo.com




Lisa Schroeder and Michael Nigro join their musical talents, creating an experience of pure elegance and classical artistry.
Their vision is to reach a non-classical audience, inspire the classical listener, and to touch just one life with a "noteworthy" performance.
Their interest in South American Music can be heard throughout their extensive flute and guitar repertoire.
Lisa and Michael are both on faculty at Vanguard University of Southern California. Michael is is the head of the guitar department.

The program will feature works by prominent and less known South American composers.
The program is varied from folkloric dances and songs to sophisticated works full of colorful impressionism.

Flutist, Lisa Schroeder is a Los Angeles based performer, teacher, and clinician. Lisa is the founding member of Noteworthy Flute
and Guitar Duo and West Coast Winds, both of which are on the artist roster for the Orange County Performing Arts Center "Arts Teach" program.
She also holds the piccolo position with the Golden State Pops Orchestra.



The acclaimed guitarist, Michael Nigro, has released a new recording, "Guitar Sudamericana," which he will highlight during his performance.
His debut CD, "Homage to Piazzolla," is released on the label, Music and Arts.

The American Record Guide writes, "Its a pleasant collection of spiky Argentine rhythms interspersed with soulful milongas.
Nigro has a big sound, a smooth tone, and sure-footed interpretive instincts.



Nigro is an active member of the guitar community; he is co-founder of the Long Beach Classical Guitar Society, independent reviewer
of Soundboard Magazine, and sought after teacher and performer.

James Smith and Endre Balogh


“We were under the spell of a formidably brilliant artist.” (The London Times)

“Poise and assurance, technical precision, tonal refinement and personal charm.” (New York Times)

“ Dazzling technique and great gusts of temperament...eloquent master of his instrument.” (Los Angeles Times)




Endre Balogh Bio:

www.endresphotos.com

Violinist and Photographer

On the occasion of his New York debut when he was only 16, the New York Times called Endre Balogh “a major new talent” and concluded that
“his accomplishments are nothing less than prodigious”. In the fall of 1973 his first European tour included concerts in Berlin and London.
The Die Welt critic declared that he “produces an inexplicably mature interpretation”, and the London Times reported, “the audience was well rewarded.
We were under the spell of a formidably brilliant artist”. He also performed in Austria, Holland, Italy and other countries with equal success.
His visits to England have included a one-hour recital in London for the BBC, and in Amsterdam a live, on-the-air radio recital.

Since his New York debut Endre Balogh (it is pronounced EN-dray BAL-og with the accents on the first syllables) has achieved an enviable reputation
on the international concert scene. He has appeared several times with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the symphony orchestras of
Washington D.C., Seattle, and Honolulu to name just a few, and is a well-known recitalist in the key cities of the United States.
His record in Europe is equally impressive. Because of his frequent performances in Germany he was engaged to play concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic.
Under Edo de Waart he also performed with the Rotterdam Philharmonic. The Frankfurt Symphony, the Tonhalle of ZĂĽrich, the Basel Symphony
and several orchestras in Holland and Yugoslavia, as well as numerous European recitals are also on the list of the artist’s list of notable credits.

Endre Balogh played concerts up until two weeks before he was born! His Hungarian mother had been a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for many years,
so his first exposure to music was a kind of prenatal osmosis. His Hungarian father, a chemist, also played the violin, so when Endre was only eleven days old
his picture appeared in the Los Angeles Times with the caption: “A Newly Arrived Violin Talent!” Unfortunately, his extreme youth was wasted in the dissolute pastimes of infancy,
and it was not until he was three and a half that his musical activities began in earnest. Under the nurturing care of his mother and the guidance of Joseph Piastro, his teacher,
he played nine public concerts at age four and his first concerto with orchestra when he was six.

Though his mother worked with him every day, other first-rate musicians were his mentors. For three years he studied with the well-known musician and pedagogue,
Manuel Compinsky. Then, when he played for Yehudi Menuhin, he was awarded the first full scholarship ever given for study at the great masters school in London.
He accepted the honor and spent a season in England; but as a child of nine, the distance from home and family became intolerable.
He returned to America and began work with Mehli Mehta, the esteemed father of Zubin Mehta. Under his skillful training, the artist soon won both the First Prize and
Grand Prize in the Denver Symphony Solo Competition and the top violin prize in the prestigious Meriweather Post Competition — all at age 13!
At 15, he gave his debut recital in Los Angeles and the following year marked his New York debut.
He eventually also did advanced coaching with the renowned violinist Henryk Szeryng.

As soloist with orchestra, he has performed with such eminent conductors as Zubin Mehta, James De Priest, Lawrence Foster, Henry Lewis, Vladimir Golschmann,
Erich Kunzel, and Christoph von Dohnányi. He appeared as guest soloist with the American Youth Symphony, conducted by the late Mehli Mehta,
in more than a dozen different violin concertos.At a very young age, he became enthralled with chamber music. As a result, he has been the recipient of several
Coleman Chamber Music Awards and has made music with such luminaries as Vladimir Horowitz and Leonard Pennario.
In 1993 he performed with AndrĂ© Watts in the critically acclaimed series of chamber concerts, “AndrĂ© Watts and Friends.”
He also founded and toured with the Pacific Trio for nearly 30 years in regular performances throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Currently he performs frequently with his friend and colleague, James Smith – head of the Guitar Department at USC.
Over the years they have amassed a unique body of repertoire consisting of original and arranged works for violin and guitar.
Lately he has also explored the rich Violin and Viola Duo literature with the fine violist Steven Gordon as well as joining forces with cellist Dennis Karmazyn
and pianist Genevieve Lee to perform Piano Trios and Quartets.

In a slightly different vein, he performed the solo violin background score to Dennis Prager’s film documentary “Israel In A Time Of Terror”,
which focuses on the heroic strength of everyday Israelis in coping with the Palestinian terror bombings.
Recently, Endre was asked by the nationally known repertory company “A Noise Within” to compose original music for their repertory run of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale”. Throughout their 40 performance run, Endre played his music as a costumed character in the play, garnering unanimous audience enthusiasm and critical acclaim.

In 2004, after severely curtailing his touring concert schedule in order to spend more time with his children, Endre rapidly began to hone his passion for photography.
It wasn’t long before he was winning top awards in contests and his unique aesthetic vision and reputation for consistently beautiful work soon earned him
an enviable reputation among his photographic colleagues. His photos are prominently displayed in the collections of several connoisseurs of fine photographic arts.
In 2007 he was honored with a one man gallery showing of 47 of his photographs at the Karpeles Museum in Santa Barbara, California.
Following that, two of his photographs were chosen for inclusion in the prestigious Santa Barbara “Art Walk” exhibition. Then, in late 2007 one of his photographs
was chosen from among 3000 submissions by the Curator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to be among the 87 pieces displayed in the
2007 “International Art Of Digital” exhibition. Additionally, he has been commissioned to create commercial graphics projects.
Most notably, after being hired to provide the solo violin tracks for a CD of new music, the composer asked Endre to also create the cover art.
The resulting design for “A World Unseen – Music by David Sudaley” was described as “…by far the most beautiful album cover we’ve ever seen!” by the publishers.
His constantly expanding gallery of photos can be seen and purchased at his online gallery: www.endresphotos.com.

Above all, he is devoted to his wife, Mona, and his four delightful children, Csilla, Antal, Katalin, and Eva.



JAMES SMITH

James Smith is chairman of the Classical Guitar Department at the University of Southern California, where he is an Associate Professor of Music.
His students include prizewinners in national and international competitions, and two ensembles trained at the university, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and
the Falla Trio, have successful professional careers. He has given masterclasses at the Manhattan School of Music, Eastman, Yale, and the
New England and San Francisco Conservatories, to name a few. Smith is very active as a performer, and has given recitals throughout the Americas and Asia.
He is an expert chamber musician, and performs frequently with the Bel Arts Trio (David Shostac, flutist, John Walz, cellist), Canto Claro (Sun Young Kim, soprano),
Windwood (Douglas Masek, winds) and with guitarist Dusan Bogdanovic and violinist Endre Balogh. Mr. Smith has performed concertos and solos with the Glendale,
Marina del Ray, Long Beach, Antelope Valley, Topanga, Brentwood, Los Angeles Opera, and New Orleans Orchestras.

A highly skilled arranger, several of his works for four guitars are frequently played by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the North Carolina
and the Alexandria Guitar Quartets, and the LAGQ has recorded a number of them, including his arrangement of Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 6 by Bach.
Recordings with flutist David Shostac on Excelsior and Douglas Masek on Massax include numerous arrangements by Smith.
An ardent supporter of new music, Mr. Smith has given the first performances of works by Hartke, Crockett, Reich, Bogdanovic, Johanson, Musgrave,
Delerue, Leisner, and Linn, to name but a few, and his recordings for Orion and Protone records have first recordings of works by Schickele,
Pfister, Crockett and others. His solo playing is featured in the acclaimed movie Sleepy Time Gal starring Jacqueline Bisset.
He has been president of the Guitar Foundation of America, was on the advisory committee of the First American Guitar Congress, serves as a board
member of ASTA-LA, and has served as a judge for many international guitar competitions. He organized the Stotsenberg International
Classical Guitar Competition held at USC in 1996, an event that attracted superior guitarists from around the world. In 1986 he
organized the Andres Segovia Masterclasses and Commemorative, a two-week long tribute that was an event of historical significance.


"Masterful, insightful reading by Smith."- L.A.Times

"Smith played caressively [his] irresistible arrangements."- L.A.Times

"Smith's expert...stylings."- Bellevue, Washington, Journal-American

"Mastery of interpretation."- Portland, The Oregonian

Ernesto Tamayo


www.ernestotamayo.com



Ernesto Tamayo – Classical Guitarist


FIRST PRIZE WINNER of the 1995 NGWS in New Milford, Connecticut, Ernesto Tamayo has toured extensively throughout North and South America and Europe.
He is one of the most accomplished and sought-after guitarists of his generation. Ernesto is often praised for his brilliant technique, artistry, and his exceptionally warm tone
and expressive interpretations on the guitar. Born in Havana, Cuba, Ernesto began studying the guitar with his father when he was five.
He made his television debut at the young age of nine.
Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Classical of Mexico enabled Ernesto to come to the United States where he received a full scholarship for advanced studies at
Peabody Conservatory with well-known guitarist Manuel Barrueco. In Cuba he studied with Antonio Alberto Rodriguez (Biki), and Leo Brouwer.
Since his arrival in the United States, Ernesto has performed in numerous concert series' and with orchestras in the United States and abroad. In September of 1999,
he made his Carnegie Hall debut with a sold-out performance. Past engagements at guitar festivals include appearances at the Fourth International Guitar Festival in
Cuernavaca, Mexico, the Sixth International Guitar Festival in Long Island, New York, the "Classical Guitarists of the World" concert series in Fullerton, California
and the Connecticut Guitar Summer Workshop. Ernesto has also given solo recitals for the classical guitar societies of Baltimore, Miami, Reno, Cheyenne and
Northern Colorado, among others.
Ernesto has recorded four albums, Ernesto Tamayo Plays Bach, Melodias Cubanas, The Cuban Guitarist, and Classical Persuasions. The Cuban Guitarist album features
two world premier recordings, “The Havana Suite” by Cuban guitarist and composer Aldo Rodriguez, and “Five Inspirations” composed by Ernesto himself. The Classical Persuasions album was released in September of 2006 where he feature works by Borges, Canonigos, Lauro, Weiss, Sor, Brouwer, Albeniz, and Rodrigo.
Ernesto is a recipient of career development grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Bossak/Heilbron Foundation.
He is sponsored by Bacardi Foundation, Del Mar Foundation, La Bella Strings and performs with a David Daily, and Thomas Humphrey guitar.
When not playing the guitar, like most Cubans, Ernesto enjoys playing chess, and sipping Cuban coffee with friends.

Steve Eulberg


Steve Eulberg

www.steveeulberg.com

Steve played music from his newest album, just released this month...

"A Piece of It All" and more!

An Award-winning multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, Steve Eulberg weaves mountain and hammered dulcimers
with a variety of unusual instruments to create thought-provoking, smile-inducing, toe-tapping acoustic experiences.

He has sung and composed for religious communities, union halls, picket lines, inter-faith retreats, mountain-top youth camps,
as well as the more familiar venues: clubs, coffeehouses, bookstores, festivals, charity benefits and showcase concerts.

Born and raised in the German-heritage town of Pemberville, Ohio, Steve was exposed to a variety of music in his home.
Early piano lessons were followed by trumpet in school band, and he became self-taught on ukelele and guitar and harmonica.
Mandolin was added at Capital University where, while majoring in History, he studied Ear Training,
Voice and took Arranging lessons from the Conservatory of Music.

While at college, he first heard hammered and mountain dulcimers, building his first mountain dulcimer just before his final year.
Seminary training took him the west side of Denver where he built his first hammered dulcimer.
With these instruments, he was able to give voice to the Scottish, English and Irish traditions to which he is also heir.

Following marriage in 1985 to Connie Winter-Eulberg he settled in Kansas City, Missouri. There he worked cross-culturally in a church of African-Americans,
Latinos and European Americans, with music being a primary organizing tool. He moved with his family in 1997 to be nestled beside the Rocky Mountains in Fort Coillins, Colorado.

Founder of Owl Mountain Music, Inc. he teaches and performs extensively in Colorado and Wyoming with tours across the US and the UK.
He delights in introducing the “sweet music” of dulcimers to people in diverse settings and in addition to his own recordings,
has included dulcimers in a variety of session work for other musicians.

In 2000 he was commissioned to create a choral composition featuring dulcimers for the Rainbow Chorus in Fort Collins.
It was recorded in the same year (BEGINNINGS). He is currently at work on a commissioned symphony that will feature hammered dulcimer and Australian didjeridu.

Eulberg passionately believes that music crosses cultural and language barriers because music builds community.
Influenced by a variety of ethnic styles, his music weaves vital lyric with rap, rock, folk, gospel and blues.
Audiences of all ages respond well to his presentation and to his warm sense of humor.

Steve is a member of Local 1000 (AFM), The Folk Alliance, BMI and BWAAG (Better World Artists and Activist’s Guild).

John Winn


John Winn

John Winn singing and playing at Willow Pond!

Known as a modern troubadour, John Winn's musical career has spanned six decades,
starting with formal voice training in college, stints as a tenor with a municipal opera company in St. Louis,
and as a coffeehouse singer in the early days of folk music in New York City.
Winn traveled with the Belafonte Singers, performed on stages with Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jose Feliciano,
and performed at New Yorks Carnegie Hall with many of the early folk artists.
He performed at folk venues such as the Gaslight, Gerdes Folk City, and Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, New York.
He toured the country as a featured vocalist with the Karlsrud Chorale, and toured nationally with the Belafonte Singers.
In the early 1960s, Winn performed at many of the early hootenanys
including appearances in Carnegie Hall and Town Hall in New York City.

Musical friend and compatriot Judy Collins introduced Winn to her manager, Daniel Gordon,
who was married to the folksinger Odetta. Gordon encouraged him to go to New York
where they booked him into Folk City. Winn moved to New York in 1960, just as the folk music scene was emerging on MacDougal Street in the Lower West Village. Bob Dylan soon arrived on the folk scene,
playing in many of the same coffeehouses. Winn spent a lot of time talking with Dylan,
including taking a memorable road trip with Bob to Ann Arbor, MI to perform in one of the early folk concerts.

His songs are filled with rich poetry that reflect on his life, his love of music, the rivers and canyons of the west,
and the mountains and seacoasts of Maine.
His songs and stories are written in the troubadour tradition of folk music.

John Winn's CDs will be available during the concert and at Willow Pond.

You can view John Winn's website at www.myspace.com/johnwinnmusic

Monday, September 01, 2008

September News from the Pond

Happy September!
Here is the latest "News from the Pond":
You can now check real time availability and book directly online on our website!!!
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Innkeeper's Same Day Sizzling Summer Special
June 21st-Sept 21st, 2008
Call Willow Pond between 10AM and 6PM the same day you want to stay and get any available room for $99!Special is for last minute, same day reservations only.
Offer only good for one night's stay.Offer only good for reservations made directly
through Willow Pond.Must mention special at time of booking.
May not be combined with any other offers.Other restrictions may apply.

To view our other specials visit:
www.willowpondbnb.com/Willow_Pond_Specials.htm

Other current specials:

Tea Party packages,
Mountain Dulcimer Lesson packages,
Wine Lovers Special,
Green Getaway
Gourmet's Delight (Cooking package)
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Willow Pond's Summer House Concert Series
Friday, October 10, 2008
7pmCullen Purser, singer/songwriter donation requested, limited seating.




The Grand Valley's own Cullen Purser, will perform an intimate concert of original material. Cullen's lyrics and melodies will charm and captivate you with their emotional tenderness and intellect.Cullen is a local luthier and runs guitar making workshops out of his workshop in Fruita.Read the Free Press article about Cullen's guitar workshop:
Cullen Purser/Free PressCullen is also a member of a terrific acoustic bluegrass band, The Late Great String Band.You can hear some of their songs, recorded live in the Willow Pond Garden room on their myspace page:Late Great String BandFor more information on upcoming concerts, check out the Music page at http://www.willowpondbnb.com/.
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Willow Pond welcomes
Efrat Dalton as an "Artist Inn Residence"!

Efrat blends vintage and Victorian era images with her Bohemian style, creating beautiful silver jewelry, ornaments, cards and more...
Come see her wares in the Willow Pond gift shop!Lots of beautiful gifts for the holidays!This Spring, at Willow Pond, Efrat will be presenting a "make your own cookbook" class, where you'll create a beautiful cookbook with an artsy cover and vintage recipes ! You may visit her website at:
http://www.edesignsboutique.com/
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September happenings around town:
Wine Fest is coming! We still have rooms available for Winefest Sunday...
But you don't have to go to WineFest to enjoy the local flavors, the wineries are open year round and many offer tours. Also, many area restaurants feature local wines, so if you aren't able to get a room Wine Fest weekend, book another day in September and enjoy all that the Grand Valley has to offer! The farmstands are open until the end of the month...
See our blog for Dining and Wine Tour ideas!
Willow Pond Restaurant Suggestions
Willow Pond Winery Tour Info
9/3/08 Senior Games
9/6/08: Rock Jam
9/20-21: Wine Fest
9/26/08 Blue Angels Air Show
Car Show
Fruita Fall Festival
9/27/08 Greek Festival
9/28/08 Color Sunday
Special Events:

www.willowpondbnb.com/Willow_Pond_Special_Events.htm

We are now booking for 2008 Holiday Parties and 2009 weddings, for best dates, book now!

Coming soon...Cooking Classes and Art Classes!

Well, that's the news for now!!