Speaker Session: From Appalachia to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia w/ Toni Doman-Vandyke
Tue, Feb 18
|Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Time & Location
Feb 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Birthplace of Country Music Museum, 101 Country Music Wy, Bristol, VA 24201, USA
About the event
Location: In-person at the Birthplace of Country Music, Performance Theater and streamed on Radio Bristol’s YouTube Channel
Cost: Free and open to the public
Join us on Tuesday, February 18, 2025 for our Speaker Session with Toni Doman Vandyke: “From Appalachia to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.”
In this talk, Fulbright recipient Toni Doman-Vandyke will explore technology’s impact on the traditional music community of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. With our growing reliance on technologies, both listeners and players have increased access to musical influences outside of their geographic region, and Toni’s project documents the current traditional music scene in Cape Breton and seeks to uncover how access to outside musical influences is shaping the region’s traditional music. Toni will share stories from her past year of being immersed in the island’s cultural community, collecting field recordings of musical gatherings and events along with in-depth interviews with…