Stephanie Conn

Writer, Editor, Arts Producer

Canada

I write, edit non-fiction, and produce cultural events. I’m creative, organized, and collaborative.

My past writing includes websites, radio programs, newsletters, program notes, academic journals, and publicity brochures. I have ghostwritten presentations and blog posts for technology professionals.

Previous clients include CBC Radio, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Music Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Picanto.ca, Tafelmusik, and more.

I can also help you organize your arts events or programs. There is more about my academic work at Academia.edu. Contact me for a full CV or see LinkedIn.

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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRADITIONAL ARTS
21/06/2017
Peter's Tapes: Private collections and mid-century Cape Breton musical culture

The late Peter MacLean’s private collection of forty-eight reel-to-reel tapes is a connoisseur’s archive of Gaelic and English songs, fiddle music and radio shows. It's also a resource that sustained MacLean’s own practice in his later years. This article considers his collection as a significant piece of Cape Breton musical history. Personal recordings of house parties are a source of rare performances and windows into an individual’s musical experience. They also reveal much about céilidh...

The Wholenote Magazine
02/06/2023
To Everything there is a Season...

Our endless fascination with this set of four violin concerti from Vivaldi’s Opus 8 suggests that, rather than being overplayed, they contain layers of nuance and meaning that are worth unpacking again and again almost 300 years after their creation.

Wholenote https://kiosk.thewholenote.com/volume-29-issue-1-september-2023/68409058
09/11/2023
Review: Calcutta 1789

Review of a crossover recording

Wholenote https://kiosk.thewholenote.com/volume-29-issue-1-september-2023/68409058
09/11/2023
Review: Oswald, Airs for the Seasons

Review of a new recording by Rezonance Baroque Ensemble.

Website: Folksongs of Atlantic Canada (MUN)
2022
Cape Breton and its Songs

With high hopes of accessing some of the vast amounts of folklore that previous collectors had said could be found in Cape Breton, American folklorist MacEdward Leach made a research trip to the island in July of 1949 to record Scottish Gaelic singing and storytelling. His interest was also piqued by his first wife, Nova Scotia–born folklorist and editor Maria Doane Leach.[...]

Canadian Music Centre/ Picanto.ca
Website: Picanto.ca

Discover. Curated music that's creative, contemporary and Canadian.

Grove Dictionary of American Music / Oxford Music Online
09/03/2014
Enclyclopedia entry: Morrison, Van

One of several entries I contributed to the Grove Dictionary of American Music