Advisory Council

Hazard Community and Technical College recognizes the value of careful and thoughtful planning in order to be properly prepared and to ensure success when the time comes to implement the program in fall 2007.   Therefore, drawing from professionals in the arts, education and business fields from across the country, a national advisory council was created and held its first meeting in January 2005.  In response to a recommendation from the national council, the same approach was used in putting together a regional advisory council.  The regional council was formed later that spring and held its first meeting in March 2005.

National Advisory Council Members:

Rachel Baar, Director of Community Relations
            Henderson Community College, KCTCS
Mitch Barrett, Contemporary Appalachian  

           Singer/Songwriter ZOE SPEAKS, Berea, KY
Gerri Combs, Executive Director
             Southern Arts Federation
Michael Donahue, Assistant Dean for Development
             Director of External Linkages and Partnerships
             University of Southern Maine  
Bradley Downall, Director Glema Mahr Center

             for the Arts
            Madisonville Community College, KCTCS
Bernie Faulkner, Owner and President of

             BFI Records, Grapevine Records, and

             Fancy Pants Music Publishing BMI;

             former member of Exile
Arthur Gottschalk, Chair
            Department of Music Theory and Composition;

            Professor of Music Theory and Composition;

             and Director of Electronic Music Laboratories

             Rice University
Carla Gover, Contemporary Appalachian    

             Singer/Songwriter
              ZOE SPEAKS, Berea, KY
 Beau Haddock, Arts Administrator

            Media & Public Relations Kentucky Craft

             Marketing Program - a Division of the

             Kentucky Arts Council

William T. Hartley, Executive Director
            Birthplace of Country Music Alliance in

           Bristol,  VA/TN
Dave Hibbard, Jazz Musician
            Former Director of the Commercial Music

           Program at McLennan Community College in

           Waco, Texas
Dan Huff, Studio Musician
            Owner of Quest Studio, providing music

             production, graphic arts services, CD and

             cassette duplication, video and photographic

             services
Richard J. McIlvery
            Thornton School of Music

            University of Southern California

Dean Osborne, Director

            Bluegrass and Traditional Music Program
Robert S. Page, Program Director
            Commercial Music Program
            McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas
Ron Pen, Director
            John Jacob Niles Center for American Music
            School of Music; Professor of Music and

             Musicology at the University of Kentucky
Suzanne Savell, Traditional Music Coordinator
            Appalshop Inc. in Whitesburg, KY
Debbie Shannon, Vice-President of Education
            The Kentucky Center for the Arts
Todd E. Sullivan, Chair
            Department of Music, Indiana State University
Jesse R. Wells, Education Coordinator
            KY Center for Traditional Music
            Morehead State University

Regional Advisory Council Members:

Gabrielle Beasley
Dessie Bowling
Rhonda Brashear
John H. Bruens
Tim Couch, Representative
William W. Hall Jr.
Lonnie Hendrix
Riley Hendrix
John D. Hoskins
Virginia Jenelle Huddleston "Jenny"
Fred Lewis
Leroy Lewis
Ron Reed
Thomas Sizemore
Ray Slone
Eugene Stewart
Gregory D. Walker
Randy Wilson
W. Ray Wilson
Christina Wooton
Mary Ethel Wooton
Jesse Amburgy
Dessie Bowling
Randall Combs
Hiram Cornett
Dave Doughtery
Darrell Joseph
Melissa Sparks
Kenneth Witt