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WBAA Arts Spotlight: Feast Of The Hunter's Moon

John Clare

The50th Annual Feast of the Hunters’ Moonand the 300th Anniversary of the founding of Fort Ouiatenon takes place Saturday, September 30th and Sunday, October 1st, 2017. WBAA's John Clare spoke to Craig Hadley, executive director and Leslie Martin Conwell, event manager about the Tippecanoe County Historical Association and their upcoming celebration.

Find out more here. The Feast of the Hunters’ Moon is a re-creation of the annual fall gathering of the French and Native Americans which took place Fort Ouiatenon, a fur-trading outpost in the mid – 1700s. It is held annually in early autumn on the banks of the Wabash River, four miles southwest of West Lafayette, Indiana.

John Nasukaluk Clare is comfortable behind a microphone, streaming video or playing violin. A former broadcaster for NPR, John has previously worked with Voice of America, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation and stations in Texas, Kansas, Nevada, California, and Pennsylvania. In 2005, Clare earned the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP for radio broadcasting, citing his work on 20/20 Hearing. Having performed with famed tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli, John has worked with the Mozart Festival Texas, Mid Texas Symphony, Nevada Chamber Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic and Wichita Symphony Orchestra.
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