🚨 This performance is not recommended for children under 12.
Adam Booth (he/him) is the 2022 West Virginia Folk Artist of the Year, awarded at the Governor’s Arts Awards. Adam blends traditional mountain folklore, music, and an awareness of contemporary Appalachia to create original, forward-thinking story artistry. Adam’s new multidisciplinary program The Heron’s Journey has been selected for the 2024-2025 Mid Atlantic Arts Touring Roster. As a nationally touring artist, his professional telling appearances include premiere storytelling events across the United States, including the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the International Storytelling Center, the National Storytelling Festival, the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, the Appalachian Studies Association Conference, the National Storytelling Conference, the National Academy of Medicine, and as a Spoken Word Resident at the Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada). He is a member of the Recording Academy and his recordings have received multiple national honors, including a Parents’ Choice Gold Award. Adam serves as the inaugural Storyteller-In-Residence at Shepherd University and is the founding artistic director of Speak Story Series, a premier destination for storytelling in concert.
Amber Decker-Koch grew up wild in the mountains of West Virginia, where she still lives, writes, and howls at the moon. A lifelong lover of words, she holds degrees in English and history, and has been writing voraciously since childhood. Over the years, she’s shared her poems in theaters, coffee shops, laundromats, dive bars, grungy clubs, and indie record stores from New York to New Orleans to Portland to Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, and she’s a proud past recipient of the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, presented annually by LA's Cultural Weekly. Amber's poetry thrives in the weird and the wonderful, and she fully intends to keep sharing it with the world until the end of the road (or the end of time, whichever comes first).
