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Title |
Interview with Sam Dillon |
Collection |
Music and Musicians in the Twin Cities |
Search Terms |
Oral History |
Event |
Interview |
Audio/Video File |
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Text File |
Sam Dillon Interview Transcript |
Narrator |
Sam Dillon |
Interviewer |
Dáithí Sproule |
Interview place |
St. Paul, Minnesota |
Date |
09/08/2017 |
Transcriptionist |
Dáithí Sproule |
Creator |
Sam Dillon |
Other Creators |
Dáithí Sproule Eoin McKiernan Library |
Type of Resource |
Recording |
Scope & Content |
Sam Dillon talks about his upbringing in Ohio and California, his beginnings with Irish music, fiddle, Mary MacEachron, Comhaltas tours, the Dayhills, Martin McHugh, MacCafferty's, James Kelly, The Plough and the Stars, Irish Northern Aid, Saint Mark's, O'Gara's, visiting Dublin in the 1970s, musicians in Chicago, why he stopped playing Irish music, ethnic identity, the Northern Star Céilí Band, Garrison Keillor's early Prairie Home Companion shows and the Green Fields of America band. |
People |
Sam Dillon Dáithí Sproule |
Catalog Number |
2018.mmtc.A1001 |
Accession number |
2018.mmtc |