I few weeks back, I got an email with the subject line, Screenshot in an Exhibition: I am currently developing an exhibition celebrating the thriving folk musics of these islands for the Royal College of Music Museum and one of the showcases looks at the Sharing of folk music and collections. As an incredible and heavily used repository of tune collections, I would like to print a graphic screenshot of a page from The Session to demonstrate digital dissemination, sharing and preservation of tune collections. Are you happy for me to do so? I replied that I’d be honoured! The exhibition opened on May 19th. I just happened to be in London a few days after that for the Gaeltacht cois Tamaise. So I arranged to have a little tour of the exhibition from its curator, Jennifer Brian. It’s a really nice collection, and it was kind of surreal to see my website in amongst esteemed artifacts of folk music history. I’m not used to The Session getting recognition from a museum, but I am used to…
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