They were awarded Outstanding Cultural Contribution from Oita prefecture, earned a Culture Creators Award from Taketa city in Oita prefecture and received the sixth Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner Award and Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Award from the Japanese government.

Rooke Chapel's choir will be practicing every Sunday morning at 9:30am lead by Dr. Caleb Hopkins.

Jordan E. Franklin is the Spring 2026 Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell. She is the author of the poetry collection, when the signals come home (Switchback Books), and the chapbook, boys in the electric age (Tolsun Books). She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize, the 2020 Gatewood Prize, and the 2024 AWP Intro Journals Project Award. Meghana Mysore, from Portland, Oregon, is an Indian American writer and a daughter of immigrants. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Roxane Gay's The Audacity, Michigan Quarterly Review, and the anthology A World Out of Reach (Yale University Press). Her short story collection, Let All Our Ghosts Depart, is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press. She is working on a novel about womanhood, memory, bodies, and ghosts. Mysore holds a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship in English in 2025-26.

The group is stacked with IBMA Best Instrumentalist winners including Grand Master fiddle champion and American Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year nominee Maddie Denton, Cory Walker (banjo) and Harry Clark (mandolin). They perform alongside charismatic frontman James Kee and bassist Jeff Partin (Rhonda Vincent, etc.) making them a powerhouse leader of the next generation in bluegrass excellence.

Rooke Chapel's choir will be practicing every Sunday morning at 9:30am lead by Dr. Caleb Hopkins.

Guitarists Meng Su and Yameng Wang, who are Beijing Guitar Duo, have performed around the world in halls such as Concertgebouw, Palau de Musica, Tchaikovsky Hall and National Theatre in Beijing. The duo regularly collaborates with orchestras as well as in ensemble with flutist Marina Piccinini, guitarists the Grigoryan Brothers and legendary guitarist Manuel Barrueco, and have toured in Europe, Australia, Asia and the U.S. When at the Weis Center they will perform:Franck - Prelude, Fugue et Variation, Op.18 Debussy - Petite Suite Gnattali - Suite Retratos Tan Dun - From Eight Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1 Albeniz - Bajo la Palmera Piazzolla - Tango Suite