The Bollinger County Library is proud to present Dennis Stroughmatt on November 5th at 6 pm. The library wants to have a big crowd to welcome him to our area. He is an amazing musician full of knowledge. We will be offering food to all who comes. We do not have the menu set today but we will shortly inform you as decided.
Dennis Stroughmatt, a featured speaker on the Missouri Humanities Council "Program Bureau," and a touring master artist on the Mid-America Arts Alliance Artist Tour and Illinois Artist Tour is an Illinois native who was first introduced to American French culture as a teenager near Old Mines, Missouri. It was there that he spent two and a half intensive years recording, observing, and learning many of the Creole French traditions still alive in "Upper Louisiana." The knowledge that he gained there included a centuries old French Creole fiddling style from fiddlers Roy Boyer and Charlie Pashia, fluency in Illinois-Missouri Creole French, and a wealth of stories and songs from story tellers and singers like Rose Pratte, Annie Pashia, Kent Beaulne, and Eli Robart; all of which have been handed down generation to generation in Missouri and Illinois for nearly 300 years.
Dennis went on to live and work in southwest Louisiana as an assistant curator at the Vermilionville Folklife Center in Lafayette, LA and also became fluent in “Lower Louisiana” Creole Music and Cajun/Creole French. There he encountered fiddlers Canray Fontenot, Faren Serrette, and Black Allemand and quickly grasped old-style Cajun and African Creole fiddling with fervor. After earning a Masters Degree of History at Southern Illinois University and eventually a certificate of Quebecois Studies and Language at the University of Quebec, since 1999 Dennis has been a touring French Creole musician and speaker working across the United States, Canada, and Europe. He keeps in constant contact with Creole populations in Missouri and Louisiana and still tours with Louisiana Creole greats Morris Ardoin and Dexter Ardoin when time allows.
Not only a musician, Dennis is a preservationist who focuses on creating an understanding of French Creole culture and music, and why cultural diversity is one of the greatest gifts we have in the United States. Please mark your calendars for 11/05/09 @ 6pm!
Dennis Stroughmatt, a featured speaker on the Missouri Humanities Council "Program Bureau," and a touring master artist on the Mid-America Arts Alliance Artist Tour and Illinois Artist Tour is an Illinois native who was first introduced to American French culture as a teenager near Old Mines, Missouri. It was there that he spent two and a half intensive years recording, observing, and learning many of the Creole French traditions still alive in "Upper Louisiana." The knowledge that he gained there included a centuries old French Creole fiddling style from fiddlers Roy Boyer and Charlie Pashia, fluency in Illinois-Missouri Creole French, and a wealth of stories and songs from story tellers and singers like Rose Pratte, Annie Pashia, Kent Beaulne, and Eli Robart; all of which have been handed down generation to generation in Missouri and Illinois for nearly 300 years.
Dennis went on to live and work in southwest Louisiana as an assistant curator at the Vermilionville Folklife Center in Lafayette, LA and also became fluent in “Lower Louisiana” Creole Music and Cajun/Creole French. There he encountered fiddlers Canray Fontenot, Faren Serrette, and Black Allemand and quickly grasped old-style Cajun and African Creole fiddling with fervor. After earning a Masters Degree of History at Southern Illinois University and eventually a certificate of Quebecois Studies and Language at the University of Quebec, since 1999 Dennis has been a touring French Creole musician and speaker working across the United States, Canada, and Europe. He keeps in constant contact with Creole populations in Missouri and Louisiana and still tours with Louisiana Creole greats Morris Ardoin and Dexter Ardoin when time allows.
Not only a musician, Dennis is a preservationist who focuses on creating an understanding of French Creole culture and music, and why cultural diversity is one of the greatest gifts we have in the United States. Please mark your calendars for 11/05/09 @ 6pm!
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