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Thursday 05/01/2008
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Education :: Lecture
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The Irish-American Experience in Story and Song
7:00 PM  FVCC
Description:
The Flathead Valley Community College Multicultural Services program will host a musical presentation titled, “No Irish Need Apply: The Irish-American Experience in Story and Song,” May 1.
Free and open to the public, the story of the Irish in America will be delivered by retired FVCC professor William “Bill” Rossiter. In the presentation, Rossiter will utilize published oral history and tales as well as music-hall and traditional American songs of the Irish immigration to illustrate the "texture" of the Irish experience in America. Accompanied by guitar, banjo, autoharp and harmonica, the songs will tell the stories of the Irish who fled the famine of the 1840s. The songs will portray the sadness of leaving a loved home, the hope for the good life in "Americay,” the fear that they would never see friends and family again, their initial cold reception into America and later their acceptance as part of the American mainstream.
The presentation will take place at 7 p.m. in the Board Room in Blake Hall on the FVCC Kalispell campus.
For more information, call the FVCC Multicultural Office at 756-3945.
Age Group: All Ages
Venue: FVCC
Address: Board Room in Blake Hall
Phone: 756-3945
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