Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections, 2015.196.767c, Connecticut Historical S…

Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program Years 1 and 2: Recordings by Sheila Hogg and Colette Fournier

Date1998-1999

Mediumreformatted digital file from audio cassette

DimensionsDuration (side 1): 16 Minutes, 10 Seconds
Duration (side 2): 7 Minutes, 2 Seconds

ClassificationsInformation Artifacts

Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections

DescriptionAudio cassette tape recordings by Irish singer Sheila Hogg and French Canadian musician Colette Fournier, 1998-1999. The recordings were submitted for their applications to Years 1 and 2 of the Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.

On side 1 of the tape, Sheila Hogg performs the following songs: Amhrain na Tra Baine (Song of the White Strand), Bonny Blue-eyed Lassie, Si do Mhameoi, Banks of Red Roses, Amhran Mhuinse (Song of Mynish), and Caran Road.

On side 2 of the tape, Colette Fournier performs the following songs: Ben's Tune, Mattawa, La Galope du Joe Bouchard, and Maxim Le Blanc.

Object number2015.196.767a-d

CopyrightIn Copyright

NotesSubject Note: The Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program is a Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program (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.

Biographical Note: Rhode Island-based singer Sheila Hogg participated as an apprentice in Year 1 of the Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program with teaching artist Josephine MacNamara in Irish ballads and sean-nós singing in English, learning some of Josephine's repertoire and her particular ornamentation style. Sheila had previously studied sean nos singing with Irish singer Bridget Fitzgerald.

Biographical Note: Colette Fournier - Born and raised in a family that cherished its French traditions, Colette learned music and songs at home from an early age. She increased her repertoire through a two-year apprenticeship with Ben Guillemette in Maine, and then with Rosaire Lehoux of Connecticut during the first year of the Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Project, and later with fiddler Donna Hebert in Year 9 (2006-2007) and Dan Boucher in Year 10. Colette regularly organizes quadrille dances in the French communities in Connecticut and Rhode Island and performs with the group La Sauterie with her sister and a niece. She continues to teach fiddle playing to others in various community settings. Colette's grandfather made and played Franco fiddles, she remembers. Colette learned some of Rosaire's "tunes with no names and the crooked tunes - with an odd number of beats in the A or B parts" during her Year 1 SNEAP apprenticeship with him. The French Canadian fiddle apprenticeships were instrumental in bringing these musicians together to play all around New England.

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.