Notes & Narratives – Richie Piggott: "The Transmission of Irish Music: A Personal View of Chicago"
Richie Piggott - "The Transmission of Irish Music: A Personal View of Chicago"
The presentation will address the transmission/sharing of Irish music in its broadest sense, covering:
Inter-community sharing of music in the latter 19th century
Learning from the master
Sharing and learning tunes from written manuscripts
Sharing of non-commercial recorded music on early acetates, Reel to reel and cassette
Musicians featured will include Johnny McGreevy, Aggie Whyte, Sean Reid, Paddy Cronin and Padraig O’Keeffe
Notes & Narratives will take place at Na Píobairí Uilleann, 15 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1, starting at 8:30pm on Thursday 15th June 2023. Admission is €10 (unwaged / student / retired €5). For those unable to attend in person, it will also be live streamed for free through our channel NPU-TV.
Na Píobairí Uilleann presents Notes & Narratives – a series of monthly performance-based lectures on traditional music, song and dance by some of Ireland’s finest traditional artists.
Supported by The Arts Council.