Delta Dental, Yamma Ensemble and George Peabody

Dakota Midday - 05/10/2012

Delta Dental Public Benefits Coordinator Connie Halverson and Paul Knecht, Executive Director of the South Dakota Dental Association, talk about the company being awarded a three-year, $3.3 million Health Care Innovation Award. This award will help improve oral health and health care for South Dakota American Indian mothers, their young children and American Indian people with diabetes. Delta Dental is partnering with the Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service, the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Health Board and the South Dakota Dental Association to implement the project.

Members of the Yamma Ensemble - Talya G.A. Solan, Yonnie Dror, and Avri Borochov - join Dakota Midday to share their knowledge of traditional Israeli music. The ensemble discovered that the early songs of Israel derived from ancient Jewish biblical poetry, from Jewish communities scattered all over the world and from the first European immigrants to Israel. The result is a fascinating mix of east and west. The ensemble is giving workshops and performing in the Black Hills in a visit sponsored by the Hill City Arts Council.

George Peabody, son of famous American banjo player Eddie Peabody, stops by our studio to visit with Karl about his father’s collection of instruments. George Peabody is donating that collection and some archival materials to the National Music Museum in Vermillion. Eddie Peabody is famously known among banjo aficionados as one of the great 20th century virtuosos and innovator of the instrument. The NMM's collection of American banjos is minimal and the Peabody collection will significantly improve their holdings.

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