Irish Pub Night Invitation & Flyer
Subject
Patrick V. O’Donnell
Date2010
MediumPaper
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections
CopyrightIn Copyright
Object number2015.196.28.1-.2
DescriptionSouthern New England Apprenticeship Program ephemera relating to Year 12 teaching artist P. V. O’Donnell.
2015.196.28.1: invitation, Irish Pub Night, March 20, 2010
2015.196.28.2: flyer, Irish Pub Night, March 20, 2010
NotesBiographical Note: P. V. O’Donnell was a renowned Irish fiddler in the Donegal style. Born in Buncrana, Donegal, he learned fiddle and Irish step dancing from a very early age and began his lifelong commitment and love of Irish music. One of his early mentors was legendary fiddler Pat Mulhern of Inishowen. PV played in many bands all devoted to traditional music. In 1987, after a time performing throughout Canada and the United States, he moved to Manchester, Connecticut and became an influential part of the local and regional music scene. He returned often to Ireland to play and refresh his repertoire. PV taught many students throughout his life and was beloved as a mentor and performer. He instituted a long-running pub music session in Hartford and inspired the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Eireann branch in Stamford to name itself after him. He taught Donegal style Irish fiddle to Laura Ridarelli in the Southern New England Traditional Arts Program in 2009-2010.2015.196.28.1: invitation, Irish Pub Night, March 20, 2010
2015.196.28.2: flyer, Irish Pub Night, March 20, 2010
Subject Note: The Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program is a CCHAP initiative since 1997 that fosters the sharing of community-based traditional (folk) artistic skills through the apprenticeship learning model of regular, intensive, one-on-one teaching by a skilled mentor artist to a student/apprentice. The program pairs master artists from RI, MA, or CT with apprentices from one of the other states, as a way to knit together members of the same community or group across state lines. Teaching and learning traditional arts help to sustain cultural expressions that are central to a community, while also strengthening festivals, arts activities and events when master/apprentice artists perform or demonstrate results of their cooperative learning to public audiences. The Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program at the Connecticut Historical Society manages the program in collaboration with the Folk Arts Program at the Massachusetts Cultural Council and independent folklorist Winifred Lambrecht who has a deep knowledge of the folk arts landscape of Rhode Island. Primary funding for the program comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, with support also from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Institute for Community Research, and the Connecticut Historical Society.
Additional audio, video, and photographic materials exist in the archive relating to these artists.
Cataloging Note: This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-245929-OMS-20.
Status
Not on view
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