AOSA Advocates
AOSA ADVOCACY COUNCIL
AOSA Advocates are outstanding artists from various fields who were invited to join the Council because of their interest in quality arts education for children and their contact with a large audience. They acknowledge the unique value of Orff Schulwerk as a group pedagogy for music learning, and agree to support it publicly. Each new advocate is welcomed and introduced at a national conference.
David Holt
David Holt is a musician, storyteller, historian, television host and entertainer, dedicated to performing and preserving traditional American music and stories. Holt plays ten acoustic instruments and has released numerous recordings of traditional mountain music and southern folktales. In all venues he brings to the concert stage the fun and spirit of old-time music and storytelling. He has earned four Grammy Awards and performed and recorded with many of his mentors including Doc Watson, Grandpa Jones, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Roy Acuff and Chet Atkins. He tours the country performing solo, with Doc Watson, and with his band The Lightning Bolts. The U.S. State Department has sponsored Holt's performances as a musical ambassador, taking the sounds of American folk music to such diverse lands as Nepal, Thailand, South America and Africa. David hosts public television's Folkways, a North Carolina program that visits traditional craftsmen and musicians in the Southern Mountains, also the Nashville Network's Fire on the Mountain, Celebration Express and American Music Shop. He has been a frequent guest on Hee Haw, Nashville Now and The Grand Ole Opry. He is well known for hosting Riverwalk: Classic Jazz From the Landing for Public Radio International. (see www.davidholt.com)
David Holt has been guest artist/presenter for two national conferences: Pittsburgh in 1980 and Charlotte in 2008.