Stevan Jackson Email and Phone Number

As a performer, Stevan explores several genres of music. Like a silversmith who produces fine works of jewelry and other precious items, Stevan is a tunesmith who, through the use of a wide variety of musical instruments, weaves together song and story with a magical flair. During his eclectic weavings, the audience may hear Celtic harp, fingerstyle guitar, dulcimer, Autoharp, tin whistle, or banjo intertwined in the background of a song or a story. Or he may weave melody and counter melody into an instrumental solo of fine musical lace and filigree within a folk, classical, pop, jazz, or original melodic setting. Much of his material highlights music from different cultures in an informative and entertaining manner.As a writer, Stevan's pen channels song lyrics, short stories, political essays, and cultural research. He has published hundreds of essay pieces, numerous short stories, and one book, Tartan and Strings: an ethnography of a musical culture, and two edited books. He has an essay in the "Handbook of Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region", published by The University of Tennessee Press. He edited the oral history book entitled "A Summer without Children: An Oral History of Wythe County, Virginia's 1950 Polio Epidemic".As an educator, Stevan specializes in cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, folklore, and sociology as well as specific regional cultural studies of Scotland and Ireland. Currently Stevan teaches a variety of courses at North Carolina State University. He also teaches private music lessons in the Celtic harp, guitar, and banjo.