World Music Pedagogies Course Faculty

Smithsonian Folkways World Music Pedagogies Course Faculty:

*Michel Aucoin, Acadian song and dance of Cheticamp
*Patricia Shehan Campbell, World Music Pedagogy (University of Washington)
*Shirley Christmas, Mi’kmaw Elder, poet and playwright
*Afua Cooper, African Canadian historian and dub poet (University of Toronto)
*Lassana Diabate, Balafon traditions of Kindia (Foli-Lakana)
*Leah Doucette, Traditional Mi’kmaw dance
*Meghan Forsyth, Acadian music (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
*Patrick Howard, Arts Education for health and wellbeing (Cape Breton University)
*Ernest Johnson, Mi’kmaw Elder, Traditional practices
*Mamadou Koita, West African and TransAtlantic musicking
*Graham Marshall, Mi’kmaw music, language and wellbeing
*Jen Mellizo, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (Education Consultant)
*Michael Morrison, African Nova Scotian Gospel Music
*Marcia Ostashewski, Community-engaged music and education for Reconciliation and Decolonization (Cape Breton University)
*Starr Paul, Mi’kmaw language learning (Cape Breton University)
*Jody Stark, Decolonizing music pedagogies (University of Manitoba)
*Katie Tremblay, Indigenous pedagogies in K-12 instrumental music (Cape Breton University)
*Jeff Ward, Mi’kmaw hand drum making