Donna Washington is an internationally known, multiple award winning storyteller, spoken word recording artist, and author.

A highly animated performer, she has been entertaining, educating, and inspiring audiences with her vocal pyrotechnics, elastic face, and deep characterizations that bring folklore, literary tales, and personal narratives to life for over thirty years.

Donna has been called a “Walking Disney Movie”, and told she was "better than television".

Raised in the Wolftown community on the Qualla Boundary, James “Bo” Taylor danced as a boy in downtown Cherokee with Leroy Tramper. His grandfather Larch Taylor sang to him in the Cherokee language and danced with him.

Describing himself as “big into the old ways,” Bo feels he has earned his Cherokee name of Come Back Wolf. Bo has “come back” to the traditional Cherokee ways from a time when he was a high school football player and wrestler, but ashamed to be Indian. He has studied, practiced, and promoted his Cherokee heritage.

Greatly influenced by his time spent with elders Walker Calhoun and Robert Bushyhead, Bo has learned the Cherokee dances and can read and write the Cherokee language. He has also learned songs and dances from wax cylinders that Will West Long recorded in the 1930s, and has taught these dances to children. He earned a degree in anthropology with a minor in Cherokee Studies from Western Carolina University and now serves as Language & Culture Manager for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

His presentations to schools and other groups have covered the Southeast, and he also

participates in the Educational Outreach Programs. He has studied immersion teaching techniques used by tribes across the U.S. and by the Maoris in New Zealand, and has developed a Cherokee Language Immersion Course for adults. The course uses methods developed at Berkeley and Dartmouth but also incorporates Cherokee culture through collaboration with elders. He has had collaborative music projects with the band, “Creed”, that resulted in a number album for several weeks. Taylor has also won a “Nammy”, which is equivalent to a Grammy but for Traditional Native American Music.

Bo Taylor is available for programs, which include Cherokee dancing, powwow dancing, dance songs, and discussion of Cherokee history, culture, and stereotypes. He adapts his presentations to audiences of all ages and all sizes, and always encourages them to participate in dancing and discussion. Taylor also teaches an intensive ten-day Cherokee language immersion class.