âMost people are discouraged from being creativeâ: Pat Collins on Henry Glassie: Field Work
The globe-trotting work of American folklorist and ethnologist Henry Glassie is the focus of the new film from Irish documentary-maker Pat Collins. As Collins tells us, the results get at a larger truth about the human need for creativity.
16 April 2021
Henry Glassie: Field Work (2019)
Since John Bergerâs award-winning BBC series Ways of Seeing (1972), weâve not often seen perceptive visual arts criticism on our screens. Now from Pat Collins, the Irish director of Silence (2012) and Song of Granite (2017), comes a mesmerising documentary inspired by the writings of celebrated American folklorist and ethnologist Henry Glassie.
Music Worcester presents Rhiannon Giddens livestream concert Feb. 20
Worcester Magazine
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens will perform a special hour-long program for Music Worcester audiences with frequent collaborator Francesco Turrisi direct from her living room in Dublin at 2 p.m. Feb. 20.
Giddens’ latest album, there is no Other, recorded with multi-instrumentalist Turrisi, is set for May 3 release on Nonesuch Records. The album illuminates the universality of music and the commonality of the human experience and mixes original songs by Giddens with a diverse set of interpretations ranging from Ola Belle Reed’s “I’m Gonna Write Me a Letter” and Oscar Brown Jr.’s “Brown Baby” to the Italian traditional “Pizzica di San Vito.”