Armor & Sturtevant toured across the United States and appeared in other countries, performing and offering workshops at opera houses, schools, churches, and multicultural events and festivals.
[7] Kelly Armor studied composition at Yale University with David Hicks and Martin Bresnick, and flute performance with Thomas Nyfenger.
For 21⁄2 years she lived with native families in Kenya and Tanzania,[8] became fluent in Swahili, and collected Pagan, Islamic, and Christian traditional songs, learning to play indigenous flutes and hand percussion instruments.
She is active in the Unitarian Universalist Church, and has taught and performed there along with Tanzanian musician Fadhil Nkurlu, and appeared on their radio show Studio One with Karen Impola.
[13] Dave Sturtevant learned singing and fiddle from his father (born in the Appalachian foothills of north central Pennsylvania),[14] performing traditional ballads, camp songs, and Lutheran hymns.