Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections, 2015.196.768b, Connecticut Historical S…

Interview with Rosaire Lehoux

IntervieweeInterview with Rosaire Lehoux Canadian, 1920 - 2013

InterviewerInterviewed by Colette Fournier

Date1999 August 4

Mediumreformatted digital file from audio cassette

DimensionsDuration: 22 Minutes, 38 Seconds

ClassificationsInformation Artifacts

Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections

DescriptionAudio cassette recording of an interview with Rosaire Lehoux interviewed by Colette Fournier on August 4, 1999. Rosaire also plays some French Canadian fiddling. The tape was recorded by Colette Fournier as part of the Year 1 Southern New England Apprenticeship Program team in Franco-American fiddling with teaching artist Rosaire Lehoux and apprentice Colette Fournier. Wanda Lehoux (Rosaire's wife), Ernest Lehoux (Rosaire's son), and Jim Chapin were also present at the interview.

Object number2015.196.768a-c

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.

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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