The Hayloft Gang
Congratulations to member Steve Parry for recent awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, ITVS's Lincs and Kentucky Educational Television's Independent Fund for The Hayloft Gang. His one-hour PBS documentary film is about the National Barn Dance, a ground breaking live radio program produced by WLS in Chicago and broadcast coast to coast on the NBC network. From 1924 to 1960, an era dominated by the Great Depression, rapid industrialization and massive rural to urban migration, the National Barn Dance became a voice that unified millions of Americans across the country

Affrilachian poet featured in MWG's Coal Black Voices, Frank X Walker, has a new book of poetry called Black Box. He is a recent recipient of the 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. This second book published by Old Cove Press is available via Amazon.com and soon from oldcove.com or call 859.266.6374. To purchase Coal Black Voices, click here.

Black Madonna is a documentary series spanning centuries, continent, cultures and religions. Director Jean Donohue's 'road movie' is a Quest through a landscape of 'heresy' to explore the black virgin as a crossroads icon of a spiritual matrix that threatened the early Roman Church, and out of which, Western religions have emerged. Black Madonna unearths the power behind the Mysteries of the Sacred Union of the Divine Feminine and Masculine and turns the recent 'controversial theories' of the history of Christianity on their heads. It is the cipher to a potent secret from the most ancient of days.