Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections, 2015.196.702c, Connecticut Historical S ...

Music Performance in Honor of Ramon Arroyo, 1995

Date1995 October 14

Mediumreformatted digital file from audio cassette

DimensionsDuration (side 1): 46 Minutes, 37 Seconds Duration (side 2): 1 Minutes, 2 Seconds Duration (total runtime): 47 Minutes, 44 Seconds

ClassificationsInformation Artifacts

Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections

CopyrightIn Copyright

Object number2015.196.702a-d

DescriptionAudio cassette tape field recording of a musical performance in honor of singer Ramon Arroyo on October 14, 1995, at Camilla's Cafe, Park Street, Hartford.

NotesBiographical Note: Ramon Arroyo was an honored jibaro singer who performed often with La Primera Orquesta de Cuatros, a large performing group of cuatristas and singers which would hold regular concerts in local churches and halls around Hartford. Later he sang with the música jibara group Amor y Cultura around New England. He competed as a trovador in the annual Concurso de Trovadores, a traditional competition for oral composition of the décima song form held in the 1990s and again in 2003 in Hartford. His composition Aguinaldo Cagüeña, accompanied by the New Britain group Amor y Cultura, reflects on Ramon’s early life in Caguas, Puerto Rico.

Additional materials exist in the CCHAP archive for this artist.

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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