2010-2011
News Release
REF NO.: 239
SUBJECT: International traditional music conference wraps up at Memorial University
DATE: July 18, 2011
Note to editors:
The 2011 International Council of Traditional Music enters its seventh and final day tomorrow, Tuesday, July 19, on Memorial University’s St. John’s campus.
Some highlights of Tuesday’s events that are open to the public are workshops in Sephardic song, fiddle and identity, accordion music of Quebec and Newfoundland and percussive dance.
As well, a retrospective of Maud Karpeles’ Newfoundland fieldwork is ongoing at the Music Resource Centre at the School of Music.
For a detailed schedule of these events and more, please visit www.soundshift.ca and www.mun.ca/ictm2011. Check out more on Facebook and Twitter (ICTM2011).
The 2011 ICTM conference will be touching down in venues on the St. John’s campus for seven electric days, bringing a kaleidoscope of singers, instrumentalists, dancers and scholars of international calibre with it. A biennialevent, the world conference is the leading global venue for the presentation of new research in music and dance.
REF NO.: 239
SUBJECT: International traditional music conference wraps up at Memorial University
DATE: July 18, 2011
The 2011 International Council of Traditional Music enters its seventh and final day tomorrow, Tuesday, July 19, on Memorial University’s St. John’s campus.
Some highlights of Tuesday’s events that are open to the public are workshops in Sephardic song, fiddle and identity, accordion music of Quebec and Newfoundland and percussive dance.
As well, a retrospective of Maud Karpeles’ Newfoundland fieldwork is ongoing at the Music Resource Centre at the School of Music.
For a detailed schedule of these events and more, please visit www.soundshift.ca and www.mun.ca/ictm2011. Check out more on Facebook and Twitter (ICTM2011).
The 2011 ICTM conference will be touching down in venues on the St. John’s campus for seven electric days, bringing a kaleidoscope of singers, instrumentalists, dancers and scholars of international calibre with it. A biennialevent, the world conference is the leading global venue for the presentation of new research in music and dance.
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