Milwaukee Irish Fest Summer School Instructors
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Barry Stapleton
Instructor Website: http://irishfest.com/Music-Archives.htm
FS07: Sampler: American Ally & WWI: Ireland 1916-1922
Barry Stapleton is the director of the Ward Irish Music Archives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is also the entertainment staff at Milwaukee Irish Fest. Through the archives he has published three CDs, the latest being “Francis O’Neill Cylinders: 32 recordings of Irish Traditional Music in America circa 1904.” Barry has given programs at many conferences in the U.S. and in Ireland. He has organized conferences on Bing Crosby, Irish Music and Celtic Festivals. In 2007 Barry was the local program chair and host for the 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections, ARSC, conference in Milwaukee. He has presented at the Library of Congress, Folk Alliance, Hofstra University and the Na Piobairi Uilleann, Pipers Club, Dublin, Ireland . Barry has presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, ACIS national and regional conferences.