Ridgefield Folk: Folklorist Derek Piotr

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Program Type:

Music & Performances

Age Group:

Adults
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  • Registration will close on February 22, 2026 @ 2:00pm.

Program Description

Description

The Derek Piotr Fieldwork Archive was established in August 2022. The Archive contains over 1,500 audio recordings collected from March 2020 onward, and preserves diverse representations of folklife; ballads, hymns, tales, poems, children’s songs, and interviews among them.

The focus of this collection is on the "non-singer"; in other words, someone with no background in musical performance who can nevertheless relate a song or folkloric memory. However, the Archive features a wide variety of informants, including professional singers, descendants of musicians, laypeople, and ballad scholars. The vast majority of the recordings in the Archive showcase unaccompanied vocal performances.

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