Interview with Eimear Arkins, St. Louis, Missouri

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Date
2020-09-04
Main contributor
Eimear Arkins
Summary
Eimear Arkins (St. Louis, Missouri)

Originally from a small village in Ireland’s County Clare, St. Louis-based fiddler Eimear Arkins is also a singer and dancer with eleven Irish music world championship titles. Eimear has toured extensively with Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann throughout Ireland, Britain, North America, and Canada. She has also performed with the show Brú Ború and helped to represent Ireland at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. In August 2015, she traveled to World Expo in Milan with St. Louis Irish Arts where she promoted Irish culture and the expression of Irish culture worldwide. Eimear has toured with The Paul Brock Band, Cherish the Ladies, Tomaseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas and often performs with harp player and St. Louis native, Eileen Gannon. Eimear is a qualified Irish music and dance instructor and teaches at St. Louis Irish Arts. In June 2018, she released her debut album, What’s Next?, and was awarded “Best Newcomer” from Live Ireland in 2019. In January 2020, Eimear was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. 

Interviewed by Holly Hobbs, 09/04/2020.
Contributor
Holly Hobbs
Subjects
Music; United States; Covid-19 Pandemic
Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Collection
Musicians in America during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Unit
Society for Ethnomusicology

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