Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections, 2015.196.688b, Connecticut Historical S ...

Compilation of Performances by SNEAP Years 1 and 2 Participants

PerformerPerformed by John Monteiro (Cape Verdean)

PerformerPerformed by Josephine McNamara (Irish)

PerformerPerformed by Rosaire LeHoux (Canadian, 1920 - 2013)

PerformerPerformed by Khandarith Hay (Cambodian)

PerformerPerformed by Martin Obeng

PerformerPerformed by Carlos daGraca (Cape Verdean)

PerformerPerformed by Sheila Hogg

PerformerPerformed by Colette Fournier

PerformerPerformed by Chamroeun Buth

Date1998-2000

Mediumreformatted digital file from audio cassette

DimensionsDuration: 18 Minutes, 13 Seconds

ClassificationsInformation Artifacts

Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections

CopyrightIn Copyright

Object number2015.196.688a-c

DescriptionCompilation audio cassette tape of performances by Southern New England Apprenticeship Program (SNEAP) Years 1 and 2 participants. The first five participants are SNEAP teaching artists. The last five participants were prospective SNEAP apprentices.

The tape was produced as support material for an NEA grant application.

Master teacher performers are Joao Cerilo, Josephine McNamara, Rosaire LeHoux, Khandarith Hay, and Martin Obeng. Apprentice performers are Fiestas de Loiza, Carlos daGraca, Sheila Hogg, Colette Fournier, and Chamroeun Buth.

Joao Cerilo Monteiro (RI) taught Eurico and José Semedo (CT) Cape Verdean traditional funana.

Josephine MacNamara (CT) taught Sheila Hogg (RI) Irish ballads and sean nos singing.

Rosaire LeHoux (CT) taught Colette Fournier (RI) Franco American fiddling.

Khandarith Hay (CT) taught Chamroeun Buth (RI) Cambodian mohory singing.

Martin Obeng (CT) taught Ghana Cultural Association dancers (RI) Ghanaian drumming and dance.

NotesSubject 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 Rhode Island, Massachusetts, or Connecticut 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/or 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.

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