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Charles "Wsir" Johnson
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Charles 'Wsir' Johnson and Instruments
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Charles 'Wsir' Johnson
Folk/Traditional - Music
Secondary Discipline: Folk/Traditional - Storytelling
Morrisville, NC
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Biography
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General Services: Workshops/Retreats, School Residencies, Festivals/Trade shows, Educational Programs, Performances/Touring

Additional Artist Web sites:
  www.wsirarts.com
 
Classroom Experience:
  Grade Level: K-5, 6-8, 9-12, College
Past Experience:

Schools and Colleges in Lee, Hinds, Cahoma, Sunflower, Rankin, and Gulf Coast counties. Wake county schools (storytelling workshops and performances). Church and Community after-school programs.


Experience in Public Art:
  Type of art: Community-based, New Media/Experimental, Performance

Community art participation:
 

Developed several statewide world percussion youth groups. Founder and producer of the Southeast Hand percussion Championship. African-American Museum Complex. Exhibit Public art at Hayti Cultural Center and Town of Cary Town Hall and the Page-Walker Cultural and History Museum. North Carolina Museum of History (two permante musical instruments banjo and drum), HOUSE Theater arts


Awards:
 

Honored to perform and play one of my  handbuilt instruments with the Chuck Davis African-American Dance Ensemble 2008 program, "Bluegrass,Brown Earth".

North Carolina Humanities, Road Scholar

2005 - Best Music Teacher, Governor's award winning "2005 Summer Core art program," Cleveland, MS
2004-Best Documentary and Best Film award, the Ocean Springs Festival.

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