2012 Festival Blog

The Taratibu Youth Association Steppers, a dance company from the D.C. area, show off powerful footwork that sound out traditionalRead More

The Taratibu Youth Association Steppers, a dance company composed of twenty-one young women, create powerful rhythms with their precise footworkRead More

The University of Tennessee brought to the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival a prototype home powered entirely by solar energy calledRead More

Formed over fifty years ago on the Venezuelan coast, La Sardina de Naiguatá performs the music of Carnaval. At theRead More

Mississippi State University is a leader in the use of technology and public outreach to illuminate advancements in animal health.Read More

Many rural communities in Texas, the Caribbean, and South America lack access to safe drinking water. The Texas A&M UniversityRead More

In founding the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Othar Turner revitalized a style of country blues music integral toRead More

The Sweet Heaven Kings, an exhilarating brass ensemble, is made up of members of the United House of Prayer forRead More

She wears a black appliquéd mini panel that reads “Handmaidens of The Quilt,” making it easy to identify which womanRead More

Surrounded by the UNUKUPUKUPU hula halau at the Justin Morrill Performing Arts Center stage of the Campus and Community: PublicRead More