by Shannon Turner | Mar 23, 2009 | Blog
Here is the link to my performance in Blacksburg last April: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yryp7R4a7M
by Shannon Turner | Jan 30, 2009 | Blog
NEA moves closer to extra $50 million in fundingPosted on Back Stage’s blog, 1/29/09(borrowed from “You’ve Cott Mail”)The House approved $50 million in additional funding for the NEA. The measure still has to pass in the Senate, but it’s...
by Shannon Turner | Oct 5, 2008 | Blog
So, for like weeks I had been hearing about this awesome fundraiser for this organization that is affiliated with Alternate ROOTS (an organization that I’ve been a member of for a long time now). This other organization is called Project South, and they’ve...
by Shannon Turner | Sep 19, 2008 | Blog
In order to fully appreciate this post, it would be very helpful to listen to the following episode of This American Life.Dear This American Life,It is rare that I have the impulse to write in to one of the shows that I listen to regularly on NPR, and I have never...
by Shannon Turner | Aug 19, 2008 | Blog
Dear Friends,You may remember that I’ve been promising you for a long time that I would write something about the performance in Blacksburg at the anniversary of the shootings. I never seemed to be able to do that in this forum, but eventually I was asked to...
by Shannon Turner | Jul 13, 2008 | Blog
by rilke”And if only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. How should we be able to...