Festival Blog

The harmonica is an instrument synonymous with all genres of American music—Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan used it in theirRead More

For forty years, Januwa Moja has created wearable art in celebration of the African diaspora. In this video, Moja discussesRead More

Most of the employees of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage report to an office building near theRead More

We are looking forward to welcoming several Welsh artists as part of the upcoming One World Many Languages: Endangered LanguagesRead More

Dr. Olive Lewin—renowned Jamaican musicologist, folklorist, singer, actress, and community servant—transitioned last week at the age of eighty-five. She wasRead More

They are falling all around me, the strongest leaves of my tree. Every paper brings the news that the teachersRead More

Amidst the flurry of production for the upcoming 2013 Folklife Festival, we take a glimpse back at some of ourRead More

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Zsuzsanna (Zsuzsa) Cselenyi, coordinator for the Hungary program taking place at this year’sRead More

Inspired by the Black Panthers and Latin American revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and formed in 1969, Las Gorras Negras (TheRead More

This Friday, March 8, 2013, marks International Women’s Day, first celebrated in the United States in 1909 and now observedRead More