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Armor and Sturtevant have produced recordings of their own music and performances of musicological interest from other parts of the world. Both of their CDs on the ] label have garnered air play on folk radio programs nationwide, including ]'s ], WVBR's Bound for Glory series <ref></ref> and internationally on the ]'s ]. They have also appeared on the albums of ] and the Great American Gypsies.
Armor and Sturtevant have produced recordings of their own music and performances of musicological interest from other parts of the world. Both of their CDs on the ] label have garnered air play on folk radio programs nationwide, including ]'s ], WVBR's Bound for Glory series <ref></ref>.
Armor and Sturtevant were an American husband and wife musical and recording artist duo that existed from 1991 to 2005. They lived and were based in Erie, Pennsylvania.
They were listed on the Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour Roster (and received two grants from them ), and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Roster for Arts in Education, and they have been favorably reviewed in the The Plain Dealer, Erie Daily Times, Dirty Linen Magazine, the Rockville Gazette and the Washington Post.
Biographies
Kelly Armor is the Director of Education and Folk Art at the Erie Art Museum, where she has taught classes as part of the Earth Force Call to Action youth workshop program and has participated in more than 30 long-term residencies with pre-school, elementary, middle school, and adult students. She is active in the Unitarian Universalist Church, and has taught and performed there along with Tanzanian musician Fadhil Nkurlu, and appeared on their radio show Studio One with Karen Impola. Other collaborations with Nkurlu include classes at the University of Northern Iowa and Chautaugua Institute in New York State. She also has played with the Great American Gypsies.
Dave Sturtevant learned singing and fiddle from his father (born in the Appalachian foothills of north central Pennsylvania), performing traditional ballads, camp songs, and Lutheran hymns. He studied voice and trumpet in high school and college, and is self-taught on guitar. In 1986 he received a B.S. in Sound Recording Technology from the State University of New York at Fredonia. In 1993 he was a finalist in the Kerrville New Folk Songwriting Contest.
Recording and broadcast
Armor and Sturtevant have produced recordings of their own music and performances of musicological interest from other parts of the world. Both of their CDs on the Tatema Music label have garnered air play on folk radio programs nationwide, including National Public Radio's Car Talk, WVBR's Bound for Glory series .
Past performances
GottaGetGon Folk Festival, Saratoga County, New York
First Congregational Church, River Edge, New Jersey
Discography
1993 - Spring Day (Tatema Music) - CD and cassette
1996 - You Dance Like You Drive (Tatema Music) - CD and cassette
2003 - Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes - Erie Pennsylvania School District: Limited Edition Recording of the District Choir's Annual Concert (125 kids singing a Kristin Andreasson song and doing body percussion under Armor & Sturtevant's direction.)
2008 - next one by - Davy Sturtevant & Brenda Jean (Butch Bunny Records)
Performed as guest artists
1985 - Adirondack Green - Dan Berggren (remastered for CD in 2001) Sleeping Giant Records
2001 - Rooted in the Mountains - Dan Berggren, Dan Duggan and friends (Dave Sturtevant only) (Sleeping Giant Records) Daily Vault review by Duke Egbert
2005 - Minerva - Dan Berggren (Sleeping Giant Records)
Musicological recordings
2001 - Vavaka: Contemporary Christian Composers of Madagascar (Erie Art Museum)
2004 - Roho: Songs of the Spirit from East Africa (Erie Art Museum)
Film
2002 - Safe Harbor: A Story of the Underground Railroad - A Main Street Media Inc. Production in association with the Harry Burleigh Society, the Northwest Pennsylvania Freedom Institute and WQLN Public Broadcasting of Northwestern Pennsylvania
