Finding Pierre
9:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission free

How a history-averse fiddler from southern California became the Lewis & Clark Expedition’s main boatman and musician (albeit 200 years late), with side trips to the many other French members of the Corps of Northwest Discovery.

Fiddler Daniel Slosberg performs his one-man show in schools, libraries, museums, and historical sites throughout the country. Many living historians portray other members of the expedition, but Slosberg offers a unique depiction of the expedition’s main boatman and fiddler in a show that has been called “a delightful program of music and monologue.” It all started in 1997, when Ken Burns’ Lewis and Clark documentary aired on PBS. Upon learning that Lewis and Clark had a fiddle player along on their journey, Slosberg embarked upon his own “voyage of discovery,” learning everything he could about Pierre Cruzatte and the music, song and dance of the Lewis & Clark expedition. From this study, he put together his one-man living history program.