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My Name is Ottilie

Soul singer Dana Masters traces the story of Ottilie Patterson from County Down, who for a dazzling few years in the late 1950s and early 1960s was a pioneer of British music. Why did Ottilie, who became the UK’s first female blues singer to achieve near pop status and perform with legends like Muddy Waters, Ella Fitzgerald and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, disappear from the story of British music?



Title
My Name is Ottilie
Entry Category
Arts (Screen)
Produced By
DoubleBand Films
Producer
Jonathan Golden
Directed By
Dermot Lavery
Writer
N/a
Broadcaster
BBC NI / BBC4