By Gadi Dechter (baltimore City Paper, 12/8/2004)
Photo by Mike Franch
The sudden death of local musician, composer, and arts journalist Dawn Christine Culbertson has united in mourning friends and admirers from far-flung corners of the Baltimore arts communityâmuch as the 53-year-old Charles Villager brought them together when she was alive.
Culbertson collapsed and died late Thanksgiving day while chatting with friends after an English country dance at a Pikesville church. The medical examiner ruled her death an apparent heart attack brought on by arteriosclerosis, her sister Terry Culbertson says.
âShe seemed a little quiet that night, but she often does,â says Mike Franch of the Baltimore Folk music Society, which hosted the dance. âShe had a good time, we had a nice dance, gave each other a hug afterward, then I turned to cleaning up and that was the last contact I had with her.â
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