To celebrate Ella Jenkins on her hundredth birthday in August, we asked a group of musicians how Ella has inspired them. Sophie Abramowitz In 2007, the Smithsonian recognized Ella Jenkins’s fifty-year ...

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has recently announced the Friends of Folkways program, which is an opportunity for the public to get involved with and support the preservative digital archive. The ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the 1960s and 70s, Columbia University student David Nzomo recorded six albums of traditional Kenyan songs from his childhood for Folkways ...

Arhoolie Records, the El Cerrito-based roots music label that released records from blues legends such as Big Mama Thornton, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mississippi Fred McDowell, announced Tuesday that its ...

In May, after a process that's taken approximately 30 years, Smithsonian Folkways announced it had acquired the entire Stinson Records catalog -- home to iconic recordings by the likes of Woody… By ...

The vast, eclectic public archive of American music—and other sounds—is featured on a new episode of the Sidedoor podcast Chris Klimek Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is one of the most eclectic ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In advance of Folkways Records' 75th anniversary, Matmos accepted a ...

In the 60s, label executive and record producer Chris Strachwitz founded the independent label Arhoolie Records, which has since become an iconic home for folk, blues, Cajun, and other world roots… By ...

The list of record labels founded or co-founded by Jewish entrepreneurs during the 1940s and 50s is a long and luminous one. But as important as such legendary imprints as Atlantic, Chess, King, ...

Think "Folkways Records" and what springs to mind is, well, folk. Founded in 1948 by Moses Asch, the New York label was conceived primarily as an audio library of American traditional music, but it ...