ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, March 9, 1997 TAG: 9703100055
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LESLIE TAYLOR
Hadassah Stowe and LeRoy Lowe met eight years ago in Washington, D.C., at a commemorative festival on Malcolm X's birthday. They founded Stowe & Lowe Productions, billing themselves as a musical production team with "a reputation as performance and educational specialists in the African tradition."
Stowe, who has a background in storytelling and drama, works to provide cultural awareness activities, particularly for young people. She has taught children from low-income neighborhoods at the North Carolina Community School of the Arts and written a multicultural curriculum guide in African studies.
Stowe studied the arts at North Carolina Central and Elizabeth City universities and has a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Hollins College.
Lowe is a guitarist, percussionist and songwriter, who once portrayed King Louie in "Disney on Parade." He studied acting at Los Angeles City College and African drumming at Sonoma State University in California.
The couple moved to Floyd County in the late 1980s, drawn there under the mentorship of A'Court Bason, an Appalachian instrument maker. Lowe also taught carpentry skills to at-risk students at a Copper Hill farm.
They moved to Roanoke - a "happy medium" between big-city life and Stowe's native Kannapolis, N.C. - in 1990.
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