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History Studio: Exploring Women’s History Through Folksongs
October 26, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
A Silver Dagger: Exploring Women’s History Through Folksongs
Wednesday, October 26, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Passed down for generations, folk songs provide insights into the lives of ordinary people in centuries past. Diane Taraz mines these traditional songs for clues to the inner lives of people in Europe and America from about 1500 to 1850, especially women. Women left few written records, but we can learn much about them through the music that they used to speed their work, lift their spirits, or ease an aching heart.
Registration is free. REGISTER HERE.
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- Steeped in history, Diane Taraz creates programs that use the music of an era to show the inner lives of people who lived long ago. Women, especially, left behind few records of their existence, but the songs they used to speed their work, sing a child to sleep, or ease an aching heart show us their minds and hearts. Diane is on the Scholarly Advisory Board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, based in New York City, and brings her programs to museums, universities, libraries, and historic houses throughout New England. She is director of the Lexington Historical Society Colonial Singers, for whom she has produced two CDs, and her own two dozen recordings are enjoyed worldwide.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org