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SUMMARY:Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America
DESCRIPTION:This event has passed\, but you can watch a recording here! \nCHS is pleased to welcome journalist and author Jim Rasenberger to deliver this year’s Charles Guilford Woodward Lecture. \nIn Revolver: Sam Colt and The Six-Shooter That Changed America\, Jim Rasenberger — author of The Brilliant Disaster: JFK\, Castro\, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs — presents the first major biography of the inventor who introduced repeating firearms to the world. With Colt’s revolver\, one could for the first time shoot multiple bullets from a gun without reloading — a revolutionary mechanism that would help spark the American Industrial Revolution and speed the settlement of the West. \nBefore his untimely death at 47\, Colt had built a vast consumer empire comparable to those of Henry Ford\, Walt Disney\, and Steve Jobs\, and his revolver had helped mold the country politically and industrially for generations to come. It was also responsible for some of the most brutal violence in the years before\, during and after the Civil War\, particularly against Native Americans in the West. \nThe Washington Post has praised the book\, saying\, “It overflows with relentless ambition\, energy\, entrepreneurship\, ingenuity and wealth\, and with deceit\, fraud\, jingoism and murder.” \nThe material for the book was largely drawn from the Samuel Colt Papers at the CMCH. In fact\, Mr. Rasenberger\, who has been a familiar face in the Waterman Research Center over the last few years\, will be donating a copy of his notes and bibliography to the CMCH to help further future scholarship about Colt. \nFREE for CMCH members\, $10 for non-members. This event will take place online via Crowdcast. Click here to register. \nAbout the Author \nJim Rasenberger is the author of The Brilliant Disaster: JFK\, Castro\, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs and High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World’s Greatest Skyline. He has written for The New York Times\, Vanity Fair\, Smithsonian\, and The Wilson Quarterly\, among other publications. Rasenberger has also written for film and television\, including a treatment of High Steel that was adapted as an ABC pilot (Empire State).
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/revolver-sam-colt-and-the-six-shooter-that-changed-america/
CATEGORIES:Watch It Again
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SUMMARY:Maanudam Parai Team Virtual Concert
DESCRIPTION:Join us and the Maanudam Parai Team for our third and final virtual concert on September 24 at 7:00PM! Chat with fellow concert-goers during the YouTube Concert Premiere at: https://youtu.be/cgQi66-RhWM. \nThe country of India is home to many rich regional cultures\, ethnicities\, and languages. Tamil language and culture have ancient roots in India’s state of Tamil Nadu as well as neighboring Sri Lanka. We are fortunate to have a vibrant Tamil community here in Connecticut. Spread across the state\, this cultural community keeps ties with teachers in Tamil Nadu and the United States. They work together to invigorate their cultural heritage art forms\, including Bharathaanaatiyam classical dance\, Villupaattu storytelling\, and Tamil folk dance like Kummi\, Kaavadi\, and Karagam. One of the most important art forms is playing parai\, a frame drum played with two sticks. \nThis third virtual concert features the Maanudam Parai Team (maanudam means “humanity”)\, along with performers from within Connecticut’s Tamil community. They also share the generous contributions of teachers and scholars who richly contextualize the history of parai drumming and the political position they take by embracing and promoting parai at this moment in time. \nThis concert series is made possible with generous funding from the Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund\, Bank of America N.A.\, Trustee. Additional program support comes from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Connecticut Office of the Arts/DECD\, and the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. \nTo learn more about Maanudam Parai\, see: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010615869906
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/maanudam-parai-team-virtual-concert/
CATEGORIES:Watch It Again
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SUMMARY:Tang & DJ Stealth in Concert
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Hartford hip-hop artists Tang and DJ Stealth! Chat with fellow concert-goers during the YouTube Concert Premiere at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ7kJPjm_O8. \nJohn Manselle-Young\, known around Hartford as Tang Sauce or Tang\, has musical roots that go deep in African-American tradition. He is an active part of the Hartford arts community\, performing widely as a B-boy\, theatrical performer\, and musician. His hip-hop performances have earned him recognition from Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets\, a group founded in 1968 that has had unmistakable influence on the formation of hip-hop. Tang creates what he calls “old school Hip-Hop flow with a new school perspective\,” incorporating his jazz trumpet alongside complex lyrical rhymes. \nAsaad Jakson performs with many area hip-hop artists as DJ Stealth\, and also makes rap appearances as MC Lion. He is a local and regional fixture at musical events ranging from open mics to dance battles to parties\, and brings 15 years behind the turntables spinning everything he can get his hands on. \nThe CMCH virtual summer concert series presents the work of the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program (CCHAP)\, a statewide initiative that documents diverse cultural traditions and shares the artistic creations and community cultural practices of folk and traditional artists living throughout Connecticut. \nThis concert series is made possible with generous funding from the Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund\, Bank of America N.A.\, Trustee. Additional program support comes from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Connecticut Office of the Arts/DECD\, and the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. \nTo hear more from Tang\, visit: https://soundcloud.com/bangdollatang \nTo hear more from DJ Stealth\, visit: https://www.mixcloud.com/StealthAssassin860/stream/
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/tang-dj-stealth-in-concert/
CATEGORIES:Watch It Again
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SUMMARY:Hamilton: How the Musical Remixes American History
DESCRIPTION:Even in lockdown\, America has Hamilton-mania! With Disney+ streaming the show this July\, everyone’s talking about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical. Its crafty lyrics\, hip-hop tunes\, and big\, bold story have even rejuvenated interest in the real lives and true histories that Hamilton: the Musical puts center stage. \nIn this live talk and Q&A\, which is aimed at people who know the soundtrack or who’ve seen the show\, University of Maryland historian Dr. Richard Bell explores this musical phenomenon to reveal what its success tells us about the marriage of history and show-business. We’ll learn what this amazing musical gets right and gets wrong about Alexander Hamilton\, the American Revolution\, and the birth of the United States and about why all that matters. We will examine some of the choices Hamilton’s creators made to simplify\, dramatize\, and humanize the complicated events and stories on which the show is based. We will also talk about Hamilton’s cultural impact: what does its runaway success reveal about the stories we tell each other about who we are and about the nation we made? \n$10 per household. This event will be streamed live on Crowdcast. To sign up\, click here. \nQuestions? Contact Natalie Belanger\, Adult Programs Manager\, at natalie_belanger@chs.org \nAbout our Speaker: \nDr. Richard Bell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and is author of the new book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home. He has won more than a dozen teaching awards\, including the University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching\, the highest honor for teaching faculty in the Maryland state system. He has held major research fellowships at Yale\, Cambridge\, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award. He serves as a Trustee of the Maryland Historical Society\, as an elected member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts\, and as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/hamilton-how-the-musical-remixes-american-history/
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SUMMARY:Dan Foster & Eric McDonald in Concert
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first virtual summer concert\, with Dan Foster and Eric McDonald\, and special appearances from the Irish dancers of Scoil Rince Luimni. We can’t all be out on the lawn at CMCH\, but you can enjoy this performance anywhere\, showing at 5pm\, Thursday June 25 on the CHS Youtube Channel. \nDan Foster and Eric McDonald play traditional Irish music. With Dan on the fiddle and Eric playing guitar and singing vocals\, their repertoire includes music that goes back generations as well as contemporary combinations\, proving that Irish music is a very much a living tradition here in New England. \n \nBoth musicians have unique entry points into the Irish tradition. Growing up in Northern England\, Dan Foster developed his music in the lively session scene there\, then took Newcastle University’s Folk Degree course before honing his fiddle style in Limerick under master musicians. Foster\, a Connecticut resident\, has taught Irish fiddle techniques to an apprentice through the Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program\, an initiative based at the CMCH. \nEric McDonald has been a professional performer and instructor of traditional and acoustic music for a decade. He developed as a folk mandolinist in the Boston area\, honing his technical skill at Berklee College of Music\, and eventually found his way into traditional music through playing for contra dances. He developed a sincere appreciation for the music of the Celtic folk revival in England\, Ireland and Scotland\, and was quickly drawn into collaborative projects with fellow musicians. \nWe are also happy to welcome a special guest appearance by dancers from Scoil Rince Luimni (“Limerick School of Dance”)\, based in South Windsor\, Connecticut\, which is led by world-class Irish dancer Courtney Jay TCRG. \nThis concert is made possible through the support of the Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund\, Bank of America N.A.\, Trustee\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the CT Office of the Arts/DECD.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/dan-foster-eric-mcdonald-in-concert/
CATEGORIES:Watch It Again
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Connecticut Freedom Workers
DESCRIPTION:Conversations with Connecticut Freedom Workers
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/conversations-with-connecticut-freedom-workers/
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