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SNEAP Year 10 Presentation: South Indian Tabla Playing

PerformerPerformed by Christopher Pereji

Date2008 June 14

Mediumreformatted digital file from audio cassette

DimensionsDuration (side 1): 37 Minutes, 48 Seconds
Duration (side 2): 6 Minutes, 44 Seconds
Duration (total runtime): 44 Minutes, 37 Seconds

ClassificationsInformation Artifacts

Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections

DescriptionAudio cassette tape recording of the final required public performance by the Year 10 Southern New England Apprenticeship Program team in South Indian tabla playing with teaching artist Christopher Pereji and apprentice Nisha Purushotham. The performance took place at India House is Providence, Rhode Island on June 14, 2008.

On side 1 of the tape Nisha Purushotham is playing the tabla solo. On side 2 of the tape Chris Pereji is accompanying on tabla.

Object number2015.196.858a-d

CopyrightIn Copyright

NotesSubject Note: The Year 10 (2007-2008) South Indian tabla apprenticeship team of experienced table player Christopher Pereji from Massachusetts and student Nisha Purushotham from Rhode Island presented their work at two performances - one for a community audience at the Holi Festival in Westerly, Rhode Island, and another one in a concert setting at India House in Providence, Rhode Island. Nisha Purushotham moved to Massachusetts from Rhode Island and continued to learn from teacher Chris Pereji through the Massachusetts Cultural Council Apprenticeship Program.

Subject 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 materials exist in the CCHAP archive for 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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