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2 unusual facts about Shakers


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In addition to Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham and Tero Saarinen cited above, choreographers Twyla Tharp (“Sweet Fields,” 1996) and Martha Clarke (“Angel Reapers,” 2011) also set movement to Shaker hymns.

That part of the town of Watervliet is now in the town of Colonie (since 1895), and the name Watervliet is now limited to the city of Watervliet (1896).


Anne Azéma

Ms. Azéma is a founding member of the Camerata Mediterranea, touring with them internationally and appearing on all of their CDs (Edison Prize) She has also been prominent in many of the Boston Camerata's American music projects, taking the role of Mother Ann Lee of the Shakers in the dance-and-music theater work "Borrowed Light" (premiered in 2004) by Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen and Camerata director Joel Cohen.

Ariel Helwani

Magazine named him as one of their "Power 20", a list of the "most significant power players, movers, shakers, ambassadors, and game-changers in MMA," describing him as "the Howard Cosell of MMA".

Beaver Stadium

Zombie Nation is when the entire Penn State crowd jumps around, waves their rally towels or shakers wildly, and shouts "WE ARE PENN STATE" during the playing of "Kernkraft 400" by Zombie Nation.

Clive Platt

Shakers manager David Flitcroft had recruited Platt on the same day that he managed to bring in Rochdale's Andrew Tutte and Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro of Tranmere Rovers.

Era of Manifestations

Shakers in New Lebanon, New York experienced a 10-year period of revelations in 1837 called the "Era of Manifestations".

Jake Hook

On 16 January 2010 Music Week listed Hook amongst the 'Movers, Shakers and Dead certs' – and one of EMI's signings of note in 2009, alongside JLS, Guy Chambers and Nadine Coyle.

Jay Hind!

Abhigyan Jha’s is the same team that made Movers & Shakers, featuring Shekhar Suman.

John Henry Faulk

Pryor visited Faulk at a Manhattan apartment he shared with Alan Lomax and became introduced to the movers and shakers of the east coast celebrity scene of that era.

Mario De Pillis

De Pillis specializes in the history of such groups as the Mormons and Shakers.

Movers and Shakers

"Movers and shakers" is a term used to refer to business leaders and those who have made great accomplishments; it was coined by poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy in his 1874 poem Ode.

Rueben Martinez

His barber shop in downtown Santa Ana, California was a gathering place for the movers and shakers in Orange County.

Shelburne Museum Round Barn

The Shakers designed and built the first round barn in America in 1826 in Hancock, Massachusetts.

Teenage Rampage

# 'Movers N Shakers' (appeared on MTV's Rob Dyrdeck's Fantasy Factory)

Toshack Highway

The second release was an EP of four-track recordings titled Everyday, Rock'n'Roll Is Saving My Life released by Space Baby in 2001, much more a back to basics affair with Franklin on his own playing simple melodic pop songs accompanied by electric and acoustic guitars, shakers, double-tracked vocals and the compression of the tape machine.

Veil of Gossamer

Dave Bainbridge - Keyboards, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Bouzouki, Mandolin, Balafon, 15 String Harp, Star Bells, Bongos, Hand Drum, Indian Tambourine, Shakers, Finger Cymbals

Whitewater Shaker Settlement

The Shakers also raised silkworms for the manufacture of their own shawls, scarves, and handkerchiefs.


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