Keawe wins
national award
Genoa Keawe will receive one of 13 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowships for 2000, for her contributions in preserving and performing Hawaiian music.
The award recognizes 13 artists from nine states and Puerto Rico for their outstanding accomplishments as master artists, teachers, innovators and preservers of our cultural heritage.
A free concert honoring the fellows will take place at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
The fellowship comes with a one-time award of $10,000 per individual. The other winners are:
Bounxou Chanthraphone: A Laotian weaver and teacher from Minnesota
Dixie Hummingbirds: Grammy Award-winning African-American gospel quartet from Philadelphia, Pa.
Felipe Garcia Villamil: Afro-Cuban drummer from Los Angeles, Calif.
Jose Gonzalez: Hammock weaver from San Sebastian, Puerto Rico
Nettie Jackson: Native American basketmaker of the Klickitat people from White Swan, Wa.
Santiago Jimenez Jr.: Tejano accordion player and singer from San Antonio, Texas
Franki Manning: Dancer, choreographer and teacher of the Lindy Hop dance from New York
Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins: Blues piano player from Indiana
Konstantinos Pilarinos: Master of Byzantine icon woodcarving from New York
Dorothy Thompson: Master weaver and teacher in the Appalachian craft tradition from West Va.
Don Walser: Wester singer and guitarist known as the "Pavarotti of the Plains," from Austin, Texas
Chris Strachwitz: Record producer who has heightened awareness of a myriad of musical traditions and artists, from El Cerrito, Calif.
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