Nineteen years and going strong.
The Dowagiac Dogwood Fine Arts Festival has become well known for it's unique blend of performers each season over the past 19 years. Below is a list of who has performed at the festival.
1993Patti Rich and Friends, Jazz Group Author Kurt Vonnegut |
1994Author Joyce Carol Oates Author John Updike Storyteller Diane Ferlatte Poet Ron Weber |
1995Sculptor Tuck Langland Author William Styron Music of Ken Medema Storyteller Dan Keding Music of The Frank Mantooth Jazz Orchestra featuring Louis Bellson |
1996Artist Marlee Brown Storyteller Sheila Adams Author Alice Walker Music of Jim Pickley Jazz Trio and Friends |
1997Sculptor Richard Hunt Music of Lucas Mason "Spoon River Anthology" Storyteller Donald Davis Author Norman Mailer |
1998Artist Winifred Godfrey Sax Fest with Don Sinta, Phil Barham and Lake Michigan Sax Quartet Author Amy Tan Storyteller David Novak The Chicago Human Rhythm Project and Ted Levy |
1999Sculptor Tuck Langland Music of The DeVos String Quartet Author Ken Kesey Storyteller Laura Pershin The Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago |
2000Sculptor Preston Jackson Storyteller Diane Ferlatte Author Pat Conroy Music of Shirley Jones The Joel Hall Dancers |
2001Glass Artist Jerry Catania Storyteller John O'Byrne and The Royal American Folk Theatre Author Tim O'Brien Music of Charles Neville and Band Dancing Wheels |
2002Dance Chicago Human Rhythm Project Sculptor Rosetta Virginia Mecklenburg, Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum Storytellers Martin and Jean Gal Author Russell Banks The Ink Spots Chanticleer |
2003Author Jim Harrison Hubbard Street 2 Dance Performance Watercolorist Judi Barrowman Storyteller Jim May Johannes, Nouveau Flamenco guitarist and ensemble |
2004Fine Arts Photographer Algimantas Kezys Author Michael Collins Storyteller Donald Davis Author Margaret Atwood Music of The Manhattan Rhythm Kings Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins |
2005Choreography of Frank Hatchett and the Encore Dance Company Sculptor Nina Akamu Author Michael Collins Storyteller Dan Keding Author Sara Paretsky HIP--The Hohner Institute of Percussion |
2006Author Michael Cunningham Kalamazoo Ballet Sculptor Fritz Olsen Artist Dale Threlkeld Author Michael Collins Storyteller Antonio Rocha Bering Strait |
2007U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser INSYNC Dance Theatre Sculptor Bob Guelich Watercolorist Peggy Macnamara Storyteller Bil Lepp The South Bend Symphony Orchestra |
2008Artist Jeanine Coupe Ryding Storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy Author Ivan Doig Musician Arlo Guthrie |
2009Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Roger McGuinn and John Sebastian Novelist and Memoirist Ann Patchett Storyteller Willy Claflin Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers Sculptor John Mishler |