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Clear Creek Creative
PO Box 195 / Big Hill, KY 40405
clearcreekcreative.net / clearcreekfest.org
31 December 2013
For Release July 7, 2014
!Contacts:
Carrie Brunk, Co-Producer, Clear Creek 646.372.7209 / 606.256.0796 / [email protected]
Chorus
Foundation
Bob Martin,
Co-Producer, Clear Creek 646.372.1869 / 606.256.0796 / [email protected]
viaKathy
[email protected]
Randels, Cry You One and Art Spot Productions / 504.906.0182 / [email protected]
viaNick
[email protected]
Slie, Cry You One and Mondo Bizarro 225.571.2929 / [email protected]
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timely -- and it’s already triggering possibilities that just wouldn’t have come about without this
Saturday, July 26: Preview “Bayou-lachian” Concert at the Old L&N Train Depot in Berea, KY
spark. Very exciting!
Thursday & Friday, July 31 - August 1: Cry You One National Premiere @ Clear Creek
Saturday, August 2: A Midsummer’s Eve Performance, Farm-Fresh Feast & Masquerade
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artists and musicians from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains
in Eastern Kentucky. The artists from New Orleans and rural Kentucky are training and working in
residency together at Clear Creek between July 13 and August 3 as the Cry You One ensemble adapts
the original
bayou-based Cry You One performance and processional to the woodland mountain
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August 2, 2014. A four-course feast sourced from local farmers and foragers and an audienceengaged woodlands masquerade will be an integral part of the performance. Partnering food
producers include Lazy Eight Stock Farm, Salamander Springs, Forest Retreats and Clementines
Bakery.
!There will be a free preview “Bayou-lachian” concert featuring music, dance, food and stories from
Cry You One on Saturday, July 26 at 5 p.m. at the Old L&N Train Depot / Berea Welcome Center in
Berea, Kentucky. Local Appalachian musicians and artists will accompany the New Orleans ensemble
for a bayou-lachian mash-up where cajun meets bluegrass, fais do-do meets square dance. Gumbo
and baguettes will be served alongside soup beans and cornbread. This free public event is
presented in partnership with Alternate ROOTS and Berea Tourism and is made possible by support
from South Arts.
!Tickets for the July 31 and August 1 presentations of Cry You One and the August 2 Midsummer’s Eve
experience at Clear Creek are available at clearcreekcreative.net. Due to the intimate nature of the
events, tickets are limited and must be purchased online in advance. Call 606.256.0796 with any
questions.
!Clear Creek Creative and Clear Creek Festival have been supported by Alternate ROOTS, the Chorus
Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Network of Ensemble Theaters and dozens
of community members to present Cry You One at Clear Creek. Cry You One is a project of Creative
Capital and is made possible by the generous support of our local partners, stakeholders and donors,
and by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; by a grant from the Network of Ensemble Theater’s Touring &
Exchange Network (NET/TEN), supported by lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and
the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; by the Alternate ROOTS Community/Artist Partnership Program
(CAPP), with funding provided by the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Kresge
Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the generous support of ROOTS
members and friends; by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural
Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana
State Arts Council, as administered through the Arts Council of New Orleans; by a grant from CEC
ArtsLink; and by the Kindle Project Fund of the Common Counsel Foundation. Mondo Bizarro receives
additional operating support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s SEED grant program.
ArtSpot Productions receives additional operating support from the Surdna Foundation, the
Kalliopeia Foundation, the Wisner Foundation, and the City of New Orleans.
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