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Film, Video Conversation with Bennett Konesni - Work Songs from Maine

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Title

  • Conversation with Bennett Konesni - Work Songs from Maine

Summary

  • Bennett Konesni is a singer, farmer, musician and administrator, based where he grew up in midcoast Maine, and also at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, New York, where parts of his family have lived since 1652. He has been singing work songs while working since he was a teenager on schooners in Penobscot Bay. Since 2007, Bennett has been using work songs at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm. He teaches workshops at farms and farm conferences across the Northeast, and in 2011 he and his wife Edith Gawler shared a song at the TEDx Fruitvale conference. His concert will include work songs from Maine, including some from AFC's Maine collections.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2022-01-06.

Notes

  • -  Group name: Homegrown from Home. 51
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Bennett Konesni, Stephen Winick.
  • -  Recorded on 2022-01-06.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697834

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with Bennett Konesni - Work Songs from Maine. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-06, 2022. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697834/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2022) Conversation with Bennett Konesni - Work Songs from Maine. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-06. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697834/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with Bennett Konesni - Work Songs from Maine. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-06, 2022. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697834/>.