Beth Patterson Interview pt. 1

How she ended up studying ethnomusicology in Ireland; playing Irish music around Lafayette; the move to New Orleans and O’Flaherty’s pub; Hugh Morrison; starting on oboe; start of interest in Irish music; special ordering cassettes; getting first Bazouki; N. Texas Irish festival; mandolin; playing bass; the speed playing aesthetic; the Irish Bazouki; how the Bazouki ended up in Irish music; meeting and interviewing Johnny Moynihan; Planxty; process of learning Irish music and rhythmic differences from Cajun music; learning some etiquette; trad music studies department at University College, Cork; on classicality describing level of cultivation; Indian classical music, North and South;  learning other world music