August 6, 2024
Harold “Stoney” Whitelock
Artist featured on Narrative Stage sponsored by Toyota. Following in the footsteps of his father, who became a skipjack captain at 16 years old, Stoney Whitelock worked on the boats as a young man. He loved this way of life that connected him to his family and the community. Once he started a family, he worked as a lineman, eventually...
August 6, 2024
Grace Cavalieri
Artist featured on Narrative Stage sponsored by Toyota. Grace Cavalieri was Maryland’s tenth poet laureate (2018-2023). Her 2024 book, “Owning The Not So Distant World,” won the Blue Light Book Award, and “The Long Game: Poems Selected and New” was published in 2023. She founded and still produces “The Poet and the Poem” for public radio, now from the Library...
August 6, 2024
Dr. Ladd Colston
Artist featured on Narrative Stage sponsored by Toyota. As a Salisbury resident and homeowner since 2003, Dr. Ladd Colston reflects on what brought him, his wife, and family to Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore and why he has stayed to enjoy its natural landscape and to support the cultural community in this region. Ladd initially came to “The Shore” to serve...
August 6, 2024
Beth Dulin
Artist featured on Narrative Stage sponsored by Toyota. Beth Dulin’s writing has appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Atlanta Review, Little Patuxent Review, New York Quarterly and Wigleaf, among others. She’s the author of “Truce,” a limited-edition artists’ book, in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. A graduate of The New School, she...
April 30, 2024
Blind Wind
Artist featured on Locals Stage sponsored by Salisbury University and the Fulton School of Liberal Arts at Salisbury University. Blind Wind is an award-winning father/son duo featuring blind harmonica player Cole Moran. Cole was born blind with a CHARGE-like syndrome. He has cognitive delays, apraxia of speech, and early onset scoliosis. Cole has undergone nine corrective surgeries for his scoliosis...
April 30, 2024
Academy of Music Performance (AMP Studio)
Artist featured on Locals Stage sponsored by Salisbury University and the Fulton School of Liberal Arts at Salisbury University. The young musicians of AMP Studio – the Academy of Music Performance - have been playing music on stages all over the Shore for over 10 years. Gino Bailey, a concert venue sound engineer and musician, along with his wife, Susan,...
April 30, 2024
Christine Havrilla Duo
Artist featured on Locals Stage sponsored by Salisbury University and the Fulton School of Liberal Arts at Salisbury University. Award-winning Christine Havrilla brings her “well-built, catchy, smart tunes” (Upstage Magazine) to audiences everywhere, touring solo and also with the support of her band, Gypsy Fuzz. With a new EP releasing in the spring of 2024, Havrilla continues to create and...
April 30, 2024
Flor de Toloache
The Latin Grammy®-winning, all-female Flor De Toloache mixes tradition and innovation, breaking boundaries with its edgy, versatile, and fresh take on traditional Latin American music. Like the legendary love potion that the Toloache flower is used for in Mexico, the talented New York ensemble casts a spell over its audiences with soaring vocals and physical elegance. The members’ diverse ethnicities...
April 30, 2024
Wes Davis
Artist featured on Locals Stage sponsored by Salisbury University and the Fulton School of Liberal Arts at Salisbury University. Wes Davis, originally from Dover, Delaware, currently resides in Salisbury, Maryland, and performs at popular music venues throughout Delmarva and beyond. He is a fixture in the Ocean City music scene. His influences are rock, blues and gospel, and his compositions...
April 30, 2024
Max Rosado
Over a period of 15 years, Max Rosado has been honored to perform in venues all around Puerto Rico and the USA and in events like PR Heineken Jazzfest, Dia Nacional de la Zalsa and World Salsa Congress, to name a few. Rosado has reached Top 5 in different salsa charts like Z93, NewGen Salsa and Salseo Radio, among many...