Screening of 'Songs of the Open Road'
Cinema City
NR2 4AD
United Kingdom
'Songs of the Open Road'
A film about award-winning Traveller singer, Thomas McCarthy.
Venue: Cinema City, Screen 3, Wednesday 12 June, 6.30pm.
In 2008, June was established as Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month in Britain. To celebrate this event, there will be a screening of 'Songs of the Open Road', a documentary profile of Traveller singer Thomas McCarthy (Pat Collins, 2022, 50 minutes).
'Award-winning singer Thomas McCarthy is the inheritor of a largely undocumented song tradition among the Irish and UK’s Traveller communities and has over 1200 songs in his repertoire.
The role Travellers have played in keeping many great songs alive – for everybody – has been crucial in shaping the folk tradition as we know it'.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvZFTuztyLE&ab_channel=IrishCulturalCentre
The screening will be followed by Q&A with special guest speaker, Candy Sheridan. Traveller activist and former Vice-Chair of the Gypsy Council, Candy Sheridan is the founder and coordinator of Norfolk's Strumpshaw Tree Fair: https://www.strumpshawtreefair.co.uk/
Short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or9oEfjUjlU&ab_channel=Soundlarks
Podcast: https://shows.acast.com/63a0337a1770e20011c52e9c/episodes/63a0a0e797b20600117594c0
This event is supported by UEA.
For further details, contact Hazel Marsh: hazel.marsh@uea.ac.uk.
Free entrance, but booking essential via QR code or: https://buytickets.at/hazelmarsh/1273551
