Julie Henigan is a performing musician (vocals, guitar, banjo, dulcimer, and fiddle) of primarily traditional Irish and old-time American material, as well as original songs and instrumentals, with one CD ("American Stranger"), tracks on other albums (including "Sean-Nós cois Locha"), and two guitar books with Mel Bay. Julie is also a folklorist and literary scholar, with publications in various academic journals and a book with Routledge ("Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song"). She has also published poems in a number of poetry magazines, as well as the anthology Open-Eyed, Full-Throated, and creative non-fiction in several publications. She has taught undergraduates and worked as an archivist, and oral historian. She sees all of her work as interconnected and part of a whole.
In this episode we talk in depth about the essentials of anyone going into the tradition, some of the greats of the tradition, and immersion-style song catching from the 1970s, what makes traditional music a singular craft in any culture, and dive into what is it about the music that draws you in, making songs your own, and then, we talk maybe NOT going into academia, and learning from the greats, and finish with, her answer to the muppet question.
Purchase Julie's Mel Bay trad music Instructional books: https://independent.academia.edu/JulieHenigan
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Contact direct for copies of her audio CD, American Stranger email: jhenigan@alumni.nd.edu
Intro Music, Irish Trad Song, Adieu my Lovely Nancy, including guitar and vocals from American Stranger, by Julie Henigan with Permission for MixedMedia Talks