Fleadh on Film: My Name Is Ottilie

Soul singer Dana Masters traces the story of Ottilie Patterson, who for a dazzling few years in the late 1950s and early 1960s was the rising star of British popular music.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, County Down-born Ottilie Patterson was the rising star of British jazz and blues music. As an acclaimed singer with the Chris Barber Band, she and the band were at the forefront of the Trad Jazz scene packing out jazz clubs all around Britain, and relentlessly touring Europe and America.

Soul singer Dana Masters recounts the story of the "Godmother of British blues" Ottilie Patterson from her beginning in Muddy Water's blues club in Chicago, her time as the acclaimed singer with the Chris Barber Band to her sudden disappearance from the music industry.