Programs: Brass Valley Traditional Music Festival
Date1992-1993
MediumPaper
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections
CopyrightIn Copyright
Object number2015.196.74.10-.11
Description2015.196.74.10: program booklet, Brass Valley Traditional Music Festival, 1993
2015.196.74.11: program, Brass Valley Traditional Music Festival, 1992
NotesSubject Note: The Brass Valley Festival, a collaboration between the Mattatuck Museum and organizers including historian Jeremy Brecher (founder of the Brass Valley Workers History Project), Jill Cutler, and Sandy and Caroline Paton, among others as part of the Waterbury Ethnic Music Project, ran from 1988 to 1996. Featuring performances by ethnic, folk, and traditional musicians living in the Naugatuck Valley, the Festival was held annually at Library Park on Grand and Meadow Streets. The Brass Valley Project produced a radio series and educational curriculum for schools, highlighting the cultures and histories of communities and factory workers living in the Brass Valley.2015.196.74.11: program, Brass Valley Traditional Music Festival, 1992
Additional audio, video, and/or photographic materials exist in the archive relating to this event.
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
