Bill Vanaver and Friends

BILL VANAVER (Co-Founder, Co-Artistic Director of The Vanaver Caravan Dance & Music Company, composer/arranger, performer) is known to audiences for his outstanding instrumental work, and sense of humor. Bill Vanaver, has been composing, arranging, performing and teaching for over 60 years. Bill studied with master ethnic musicians throughout the world He possesses a repertoire of more than 500 songs. In 1973, Vanaver became the first American to be awarded a grant to study a folk instrument abroad (the bowed “lyra” in Crete, Greece).