Interview with Trish Miller
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Title
Interview with Trish Miller
Date
12/05/2016
Publisher
DS 113A: Storytellling Interviewing, Skidmore College
Description
Trish Miller, dedicated Flurry participant and teacher of banjo at Skidmore College, describes her background in folk music and traditional dance and discusses her experiences with the annual Flurry Festival in Saratoga Springs.
Language
English
Creator
Jennifer Davies
Subject
Saratoga Springs -- Flurry Festival -- History
Format
Original recording wav file, 16 bit 44.1 khz
Date Created
12/05/2016
Oral History Item Type Metadata
Interviewer
Jennifer Davies
Interviewee
Trish Miller
Location
Lucy Scribner Library, Room 128b, Skidmore College
Original Format
Digital Audio Recording
Duration
43 minutes
Time Summary
Log: Interview with Trish Miller
0:28 – Discusses her early background with music and dance, how she first became interested in dancing and folk music
2:55 – Becomes a member of touring dance troupe The Green Grass Cloggers, which is how she met her husband John Kirk because he was one of the troupe’s musicians
4:20 – Trish discusses what brought her to Saratoga Springs, and what the town was like when she first came here, Paul Davis
7:00 – how Saratoga Springs has affected The Flurry and vice versa
9:20 – how interest in folk music has evolved over the past few decades
12:00 – Trish’s first experience at the Flurry Festival, Paul Rosenburg
15:50 – Ways that the festival has changed, Hudson Mohawk Traditional Dancers
18:35 – sense of community from within and beyond the festival
21:55 – what a participant/visitor of the Flurry could expect to experience (both positive and negative), the energy/atmosphere of the festival’s environment
28:06 – discusses some various styles of folk music and dance at the festival, Jay Ungar, Pierre Chartrand
32:00 – discusses some of the international participants in the festival
34:20 – discusses Bosnian performers at festival and speaks a bit about the Bosnian culture present in nearby New York state
35:35 – discuses hip-hop stomp dance group from Albany and how the group expresses ideas of social justice and politics
37:55 – recollects on the year that Saratoga lost power due to snow right as the festival was starting and how the dedicated participants overcame this obstacle
41:20 – Trish’s hopes for Skidmore to become more involved in the Festival
0:28 – Discusses her early background with music and dance, how she first became interested in dancing and folk music
2:55 – Becomes a member of touring dance troupe The Green Grass Cloggers, which is how she met her husband John Kirk because he was one of the troupe’s musicians
4:20 – Trish discusses what brought her to Saratoga Springs, and what the town was like when she first came here, Paul Davis
7:00 – how Saratoga Springs has affected The Flurry and vice versa
9:20 – how interest in folk music has evolved over the past few decades
12:00 – Trish’s first experience at the Flurry Festival, Paul Rosenburg
15:50 – Ways that the festival has changed, Hudson Mohawk Traditional Dancers
18:35 – sense of community from within and beyond the festival
21:55 – what a participant/visitor of the Flurry could expect to experience (both positive and negative), the energy/atmosphere of the festival’s environment
28:06 – discusses some various styles of folk music and dance at the festival, Jay Ungar, Pierre Chartrand
32:00 – discusses some of the international participants in the festival
34:20 – discusses Bosnian performers at festival and speaks a bit about the Bosnian culture present in nearby New York state
35:35 – discuses hip-hop stomp dance group from Albany and how the group expresses ideas of social justice and politics
37:55 – recollects on the year that Saratoga lost power due to snow right as the festival was starting and how the dedicated participants overcame this obstacle
41:20 – Trish’s hopes for Skidmore to become more involved in the Festival
Record Creation Date
06/12/2016
Collection
Citation
Jennifer Davies, “Interview with Trish Miller,” Skidmore Saratoga Memory Project, accessed October 11, 2024, https://ssmp.skidmore.edu/document/396.
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