Tommy Peoples: A Portrait of an Artist
Online Exhibition
Tommy Peoples: A Portrait of an Artist is a substantial online exhibition, hosted by the Irish Traditional Music Archive, which offers a retrospective on the life’s work of one of Ireland’s most important musicians and composers. The exhibition is divided into chapters, each of which offer insight into various aspects of Peoples’ life.
The project makes a substantial contribution to the field a variety of content forms. These include: newly commissioned interviews (around eight hours of professionally produced material), musical transcriptions (around fifty items), written analysis (nearly 20,000 words), contextual material (incl numerous photographs) and the release of previously unheard recordings (c.300 minutes) .
The project makes a substantial contribution to the field and sets a new standard for online exhibitions in Irish traditional music.
My role in this project was a co-curator and co-author with primary responsibility for (1) authoring the text in the collection (2) cataloguing and selecting audio recordings for publication. I had additional responsibilities in conducted a number of the interviews and in selecting/editing the material for publication.
