Toni Doman-Vandyke comes to us from West Virginia and is a 2023-24 Fulbright Canada Student Award recipient. Her research project Complex Relationships: Contemporaries Technologies and the Traditional Music of Cape Breton, focuses on uncovering how globalization and technology have an impact and are interacting within the traditional music community in Cape Breton. She is currently the Director of the Tazewell County Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program chapter, and the Project Manager for the Central Appalachian Living Traditions grant program for The Bristol Roots project, a program supporting traditional arts and culture in SouthWest Virginia. Her previous work includes multiple roles at the Birthplace of Country Music, including Curatorial Specialist and Grants Coordinator. During this time, she produced and hosted Mountain Song & Story on WBCM Radio Bristol which showcased influential Appalachian artisans and traditions through in-depth interviews, music, and storytelling. Toni holds a Master’s Degree in Communications and Media Arts and Studies from Ohio University focusing on Appalachian music and culture as the core of her graduate research and is one of the few students to earn the world’s first four-year degree in traditional bluegrass music offered at Glenville State University in West Virginia. Toni is also a musician currently performing in the country-folk duo Virginia West, and she has recently embarked on a new journey baking homemade pies at her home-based pie shop, The Rolling Pin, and discovered the traditional craft of weaving through classes offered in Cape Breton. Through all her creative outlets, Toni aims to promote arts and culture for a greater understanding of the Appalachian region.

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