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Jackie Kashian has a half-hour special on Comedy Central and has appeared on CBS, NBC, and the Nationally syndicated Radio/TV show Bob And Tom. She has been a national touring comic for over 14 years and has performed at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival, the Bumbershoot Arts Festival in Seattle, Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal and has toured Australia for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow. This year she travelled to Kuwait and Iraq and performed for the troopsJackie's First Time: In 1985, Jackie got drunk and heckled Sam Kinison in Madison, Wisconsin. She was told, by management, that...

Born in Detroit, Michigan, of Armenian descent, violist Kim Kashkashian enjoys an international career as a chamber musician and viola soloist. She is a regular guest artist to the festivals in Marlboro, Lockenhaus, and Salzburg; and ongoing collaborator with pianist Robert Levin, percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky, and harpsichordist Robert Hill. As a recording artist, Kashkashian’s extensive discography includes concerti of Britten, Penderecki, Kancheli, and Schnittke; sonatas of Hindemith and Shostakovich; chamber music of Bach and Schumann; the Brahms Sonatas with Robert Levin, which won the 1999 Edison Prize; and concertos of Bartók, Eötvös, and Kurtág, which was released in June 2000...