Storyteller Erin Guiltner

The program will include stories told in several styles, and will include audience participation, music, instruments, movement and props.  “Families will enjoy the opportunity to participate together.  The activities will be adaptable for children of all ages -- even babies are encouraged to join in the fun” Guiltner says.

Graduating Summa Cum Laude from Oklahoma City University where she studied flute, voice, piano, saxophone, acting and dance, Guiltner has developed a broad base of skills.  Over the past 15 years, she has used those skills to entertain young audiences across the country.  In 2003, Guiltner added Licensed Kindermusik Educator to her resume.  She now teaches Kindermusik two mornings each week at the Depot. 

“I feel sure audiences of all ages will enjoy Erin’s stories.” says Nancy McClellan, PAS Executive Director.  “We invite everyone to come and participate.”

For additional information, phone the Performing Arts Studio at 307-9320.

Storytelling at the Depot is made possible by a grant from the Norman Arts Council.

Ellis Paul

It was while bedridden from a college track injury that Ellis Paul discovered songwriting, making up songs on a guitar a friend had given him to keep him from being so bored. By 1989 he was haunting the Boston open mic scene. 

He became a principle leader in the wave of singer/songwriters that emerged from the Boston Folk scene, creating a movement that revitalized the national acoustic circuit with an urbane, literate, folk pop style that helped renew interest in the genre in the 1990’s.

Bill Miller

A Mohican Indian from northern Wisconsin, Bill Miller has long been one of the most admired figures in the Native American music arena and beyond, receiving five Native American Music Awards in 2000, including Songwriter of the Year, Song of the Year, Folk Artist, and Artist of the Year for Ghost Dance.  In 2005 his album, Cedar Dream Songs, won a Grammy Award for Best Native American Recording. 

With music, Miller discovered a way out of the entrenched poverty of the reservation.  Music had always been an essential part of life, and Bill (whose Indian name, Fush-Ya Heay Ka, means "bird song") learned traditional songs at an early age.  "We didn't have much," he recalls. "There was nothing but woods, trout and a Zenith radio that picked up AM stations across the country.  I'd hear Barbra Streisand, The Beatles, Stones, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan. I became a fan of all kinds of good music and the emotion it can capture."

Robert Mirabal

Robert Mirabal has been described as an indigenous “Renaissance man”-- musician, composer, painter, master craftsman, poet, horseman and farmer.  His many honors include two-time Native American Artist of the Year and three-time Songwriter of the Year.  Mirabal won a 2006 Grammy Award for “Sacred Ground,” Best Native American Album of the Year, and is the 2007 NAMMY “Best Male Artist” winner.

Mirabal’s 2001 PBS special “Music From a Painted Cave” remains a benchmark on Native American entertainment.