2011 Festival Blog

The life of Kate Rinzler was celebrated on July 9 with lively performances by two Smithsonian Folkways recording artists, ElizabethRead More

The Monitors, from Wilson County, North Carolina, have been performing for over fifty years. Best known for their R&B and jazzRead More

On the last day of the Festival, July 11, musicians from Chirimía la Contundencia (Quibdó, Colombia) and the Monitors (WilsonRead More

In her work with the Peace Corps, Frances Parsons has worked to promote communications for deaf people in communities aroundRead More

You have been to the Festival and checked out the information we’ve posted about the programs. Now find out if you’re smarter than aRead More

Congressman John Garamendi and his wife were both Peace Corps volunteers in the late 1960s. In this video of aRead More

As a participant in the Smithsonian’s Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA), I was invited to be a volunteer inRead More

Here are the top ten photos posted on Flickr from day ten of the Festival. While the 2011 Festival isRead More

Here are theof the Festival. While the 2011 Festival is now over, we hope you’ll keep  uploading those gorgeous imagesRead More

As Rahama Wright embarked on a two year Peace Corps assignment in Mali, she had every intention of seizing theRead More