Articles About AACW

• 2016 Blues Fest to honor Faith Patterson

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 15, 2016

  

  Remembering, honoring and celebrating the life of teacher and community organizer Faith Patterson will be at the forefront of this year’s AACW Blues, Jazz & Gospel Fest, the music festival she founded here in 1997.

• Faith Patterson

  By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 18, 2016

  

  Village icon and longtime community activist Faith Patterson, 85, died on Sunday, Jan. 17.

• Kwanzaa marks African heritage in Yellow Springs

  By Lauren HeatonJanuary 1, 2015

  

  Basim Blunt wanted to make sure that the Kwanzaa celebration that the African American Cross-Cultural Works has sponsored in the village for nearly 10 years continues.

• The 16th annual AACW Blues Fest­— Blues, jazz and gospel to reign

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 22, 2013

  A blues singer from Uruguay will make her first appearance at this year’s AACW Blues, Jazz and Gospel Fest, to take place Aug. 22 through 25 at the Antioch College amphitheatre. The singer, Virginia Martinez, contacted Blues Fest organizers because she’d heard of the event and wanted to perform, according to Karen Patterson. When Patterson […]

• Braving cold to show solidarity

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 22, 2013

  

  Cold temperatures didn’t keep away villagers from taking part in Monday’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day walk and service. See more photos.

• AACW Blues Fest— Learning, love and music

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 1, 2011

  At this year’s annual Blues and Jazz Fest, African American Cross-Cultural Works can be expected to deliver another lineup of strong bands that draw large crowds.

• AACW’s Bluesfest to rock out the weekend

  By Megan BachmanAugust 26, 2011

  

  AACW’s 14th annual Blues and Jazz Festival this weekend will feature blues, reggae, open mic poetry and gospel music. See the full schedule and a video from last year’s festival.

• Blues, jazz energize village at Fest

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 2, 2010

  

  The mighty influence of African Americans in American music — from blues, jazz and rock-and-roll to hip-hop and R&B — is annually celebrated at the Blues and Jazz Fest put on by African-American Cross-Cultural Works, or AACW, each fall.

• Bluesfest a cultural treasure

  By Megan BachmanAugust 31, 2010

  

  In its 13th year, AACW’s Blues and Jazz Festival, offers a mix of returning artists and new acts sure to entertain, and educate, audiences.

• TLT, AACW join for roots fest

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 25, 2010

  

  Every year the local blues fest reminds community members about the roots of contemporary popular music. If gospel can spawn the blues, jazz, reggae and rap, then what can the art of the local community tell us about our own history and roots? African American Cross-Cultural Works and the Tecumseh Land Trust aim to find out when they put on the first ever Roots Fest on Saturday, March 27, at Bryan Community Center. It will be an evening of performances in which villagers use the arts to connect to and share their own stories.