The American Folklife Center of the Library ofcongress presents Traditional music and dance "homegrown" in communities across the United States > < P Thursday *t\f *AM< 42 % -,$ % % April 2 1, 2005 12 NOON - 1 PM i Coolidge Auditorium Ground Floor, Thomas Jefferson Building Closest Metro Stop: Library of Congress Cap~toIsouth (orange and I 0 First Street, SE, Washington, DC blue Ilne~)~located south of the Jefferson Bu~ldlng Cosponsored with the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or
[email protected] For more information contact Thea Austen 202-707-1743 At the turn of the twentieth century, Chicago's General Because travel has become relatively affordable, Superintendent of Police collected all the lrish tunes he musicians can come together across borders more could find, trying to save what he thought was a dying frequently. Since the 1960s, when flute-player Frank tradition. Chief Francis O'Neill, along with the many Thornton reported that Chicago had 9 1 Irish-born musicians he collected from, situated Chicago as an musicians, networks have grown to include musicians across important place for lrish music. O'Neill (who was entitled continents, learning from one another and expanding their to be called "Chief" but preferred the simpler title of repertoires. Carroll's compositions have become part of the "Captain") collected and published around 3,500 tunes; his lrish music repertoire, and her tunes can be heard in songbooks are considered standards of lrish music and are Chicago pubs and across the ocean in Ireland's villages. referenced by many lrish musicians.