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Sounds like Home - 7. Connemara Rose - Josephine McNamara

This recording was produced in 1998 by the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program (while it was based at the Institute for Community Research) and Connecticut Public Radio under grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Humanities Council, with additional support from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. With support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program is pleased to share this music of home again in this format, with a bonus track from the Second Baptist Male Chorus that never made it onto the final CD. From the liner notes For an old Yankee state, Connecticut has a surprising diversity in its cities, rural areas, and neighborhoods - 102 languages other than English are spoken in the home by Connecticut residents, according to the 1990 Census Bureau report. To highlight the importance and richness of Connecticut's quilted character, this recording presents a selection of the state's best traditional musicians from a wide variety of communities. The Institute for Community Research and Connecticut Public Radio first brought these artists into the radio station's studio in 1995 as part of a project to produce a series of radio features on the music and traditions of ethnic Connecticut. The project required digital recording of the artists in performance. For many of the artists, these recordings represent the only documentation of their music. With the help of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Connecticut Humanities Council, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts as well as our own organizations, we are proud to offer this world music journey of Connecticut neighborhoods. The radio features we produced examined the ways in which musical traditions both strengthen and draw from deep cultural roots. In selecting musicians for the series we looked for those who were closely involved in their communities, artists whose personal stories reflected the history, character and the values of their cultural group and who showed deep commitment to serving that group. How these musicians deal with moving to America from a beloved homeland, sometimes in forced exile, is expressed in their music. They persist in passing on traditions and language when so many pressures in contemporary society argue against this. Clearly there is intensive cultural preservation going on among ethnic groups in Connecticut and that brings both joy in the music and a sense of hope for a stronger society. John Dankosky Lynne Williamson News Director/Producer CT Cultural Heritage Arts Program CT Public Radio Institute for Community Research Hartford September 1998 ***** Josephine McNamara Josephine McNamara sings pure unaccompanied Irish ballads from the sean nós tradition, a Gaelic term meaning "old style." Growing up in a farming family in County Leitrim, she absorbed a large and rich repertoire from her family, especially her father, and other singers through everyday songs heard around the house and those she picked up at local ceilis (the Gaelic word for house parties). South Leitrim's musical heritage is remarkable for its retention of older styles, wide variety of tunes, and unique repertoire. In 1958, 1959, and 1961 Josephine entered and won the prestigious All-Ireland championship contest for ballad singing at the Fleadh Cheoil, the first singer ever to have achieved this feat. She moved to the US in 1963, later settling in Stamford, Connecticut. Encouraged by fiddler Seamus Connelly, Josephine performed for the first time in years at the 1993 Gaelic Roots Festival in Boston. She was featured in the 1995 St. Patrick's Day concert at Wolf Trap which was broadcast live on Folk Masters, a nationally syndicated folk music program from Radio Smithsonian. Today she is a fervent ambassador for Irish traditional music, traveling to set-dancing gatherings throughout the Northeast and hosting dances and ceilis at the Hibernian Hall in Stamford as well.To pass on her legacy of Irish traditional music, Josephine teaches sean nós apprentices. Connemara Rose Josephine learned this from accordion player Dermot O'Brien, first on tape and then again when he performed in Fairfield, CT. Come back Home to Erin Josephine has known this song for so long ago she doesn't remember how she learned it. It relates an experience common to many Irish people, the emotions of exile and loss. ***** Producers: John Dankosky and Lynne Williamson; 1998 Copyright for original songs and all performances resides with the artists and may not be performed or reproduced without permission. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of all applicable laws. All rights reserved. For more information about the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program, see: https://chs.org/cchap