Work
1996 – 2001
Pigeon Nest Education Urban Ministry and Arts
Volunteer, Director
1999 – 2001 Kentucky Arts Council
Grant recipient (CAR) Community Artist in Residence.
SPLATCH (Jazz Fusion)- Congas
PRANA Percussion – Poetry, Djembe, Flutes and various percussion
2001 – 2017
CSX Transportation – Conductor / Locomotive Engineer
Union work –
Secretary of Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Div. 78
National Co-Chair – Railroad Workers United
National Organizer – Railroad Workers United
Steering Committee – Teamsters for a Democratic Union
General Member and Organizer – Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W)
2015 –
Performer / Organizer – Joe Hill Roadshow 100
Kentucky Arts Council grant recipient
( Music of Kentucky’s Labor History and
Old Time Banjo Apprenticeship with
Sue Massek)
Music and Percussion study
Herbie Johnson – 1989 – Louisville
Musa Uthman – 1990 – Louisville
Babatunde Olatunji – 1994, 1996 – Omega Institute
Famoudou Konate – 2006 – Nashville, TN
Bolokada Conde – 2010, 2012, 2013 – Urbana, Il , Louisville, KY
2018 –
The Belle Of Louisville Steamboat
Deckhand . Fireman
please use the form below to contact John Paul Wright for more information or booking.
