Smithsonian Folklife Festival Goes National for the United States’ 250th Anniversary
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Goes National for the United States’ 250th Anniversary
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2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Celebrates the Culture of the Ozarks and Looks at Creativity and Spirituality in the U.S.
2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Celebrates the Culture of the Ozarks and Looks at Creativity and Spirituality in the U.S.
Apr 20, 2023
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival Spotlights Circus Arts
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Spotlights Circus Arts
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¡Artistas, chefs, músicos, bailarines, atletas y más indígenas estarán en Washington, DC del 26 de junio al 1 de julio! Conócelos cuando visites el Festival de las Tradiciones Populares 2024 de la Institución Smithsonian en la Explanada Nacional y dentro del Museo Nacional del Indígena Americano! | Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
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¡Artistas, chefs, músicos, bailarines, atletas y más indígenas estarán en Washington, DC del 26 de junio al 1 de julio! Conócelos cuando visites el Festival de las Tradiciones Populares 2024 de la Institución Smithsonian en la Explanada Nacional y dentro del Museo Nacional del Indígena Americano! | Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
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#Throwback to the 2022 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. ☀️ We're just six weeks away from our 2023 Festival! We're back on the National Mall again this year with music and dance performances, hands-on activities, craft workshops, conversations, cooking and gardening demonstrations, and so much more. Grab some friends, head downtown to the National Mall, and get ready to immerse yourself in the diversity of American cultures. Mark your calendars for June 29–July 4 and July 6–9. 🗓 See more info on
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#Throwback to the 2022 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. ☀️ We're just six weeks away from our 2023 Festival! We're back on the National Mall again this year with music and dance performances, hands-on activities, craft workshops, conversations, cooking and gardening demonstrations, and so much more. Grab some friends, head downtown to the National Mall, and get ready to immerse yourself in the diversity of American cultures. Mark your calendars for June 29–July 4 and July 6–9. 🗓 See more info on
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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is here in D.C., now through July 9! Curtis and Brooks talk about the Folklife Festival and what Branson, Missouri, has to offer for your upcoming family vacation. | 7News DC
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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is here in D.C., now through July 9! Curtis and Brooks talk about the Folklife Festival and what Branson, Missouri, has to offer for your upcoming family vacation. | 7News DC
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival kicks off on the National Mall
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Visit the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival to enjoy free live music, artist demonstrations, hands-on activities, food and more! Indigenous peoples from across the Western Hemisphere will be sharing their cultures on the National Mall and at the National Museum of the American Indian from June 26-July 1. #ThingsToDoInDC | Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
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Culture collides at the 58th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival - WTOP News
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The 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival offers American Sign Language interpretation and live, real-time captioning of events throughout the Festival, June 26–July 1. We are excited to once again partner with Joyful Signing, LLC as we strive to create an accessible and inclusive environment for all. Learn more about the Festival’s accessibility services and resources: festival.si.edu/accessibility Video transcript in the comments. | Smithsonian Folklife
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Everyone is welcome at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival offers American Sign Language interpretation and live, real-time captioning of events throughout the Festival, July 2–7 on the National Mall. We are excited to once again partner with Joyful Signing, LLC as we strive to create an accessible and inclusive environment for all. Learn more about the Festival’s accessibility services and resources: festival.si.edu/accessibility Full video transcript in th
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Based in New York City, Ukrainian Village Voices is a collective of performers who are preserving and reviving the polyphonic singing style of villages across Ukraine. The ensemble was invited to perform at the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, as part of the program "Creative Encounters: Living Religions in the U.S." Watch the group perform “Our Mother Was at the Bazaar” in the Smithsonian Arts Industries Building at the 2023 Festival, and learn more about Ukrainian folk music in Folklife Mag
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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival offers American Sign Language interpretation and live, real-time captioning of events throughout our two-week festival. This year, the 2022 Folklife Festival will also offer ASL and live real-time captioning for all livestreamed events on our YouTube Channel! To learn more about the Festival's accessibility offers, visit: https://s.si.edu/3xnPWXa | Smithsonian Folklife
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FamilySearch Featured at Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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At This Year’s Folklife Festival, the Kids Are All Right
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Since 1973, Halau O Kekuhi has worked to elevate Native Hawaiian knowledge and practice through hula and chant. In 2024, the group performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, on the National Mall and inside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, as part of the “Indigenous Voices of the Americas” program. In this video, they perform three chants: “Hoʻopuka I Kai Ka Lā,” “Aia Lā ʻO Pele I Hawaiʻi,” and “Pua Hau O Maleka.” Learn more about the hālau hula (classical dance scho
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Hearing the Voices of Deaf Culture at the 1981 Folklife Festival
Apr 13, 2021
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Morning Update: Opening day of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Good morning, everyone! As part of my coverage of the festival in Washington D.C., I’m planning to do morning updates about what’s in store that day for the Ozarks program. In addition to these videos, stay tuned for posts throughout the day. Here’s the first one! #2023folklife #OzarksInDC | Ozarks Alive
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“The National Museum of the American Indian serves to ensure OUR visibility as Indigenous people in American and global society. The Folklife Festival and all that we do at the museum is a celebration and acknowledgment of Native and Indigenous resilience, innovation, and presence. Native people: We’re still here, and we’re thriving!”—Director Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar (San Felipe Pueblo/Hopi/Tewa/Navajo) Over the past week, we celebrated twenty years of our museum being an Indigenous presence on
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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is officially open. We’re so honored to showcase the region on the National Mall! Here are just a few of the “faces and facets” being presented this year. #ozarksinDC #2023folklife | Ozarks Alive
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Teen artists portrayed their lives — some adults didn't want to see the full picture
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Smithsonian's Folklife Festival returns to the National Mall
Jun 22, 2022
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The music doesn’t end with the close of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival day: It continues at the hotel — with a newly arrived musician sitting in on spoons. Any fans of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils recognize this fellow? (P.S. Tomorrow evening, the OMD plays on the National Mall!) #ozarksindc #2023folklife | Ozarks Alive
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The youngest performers at the Festival are about as tall as their instruments are long. The Nur Qanon Ensemble takes its name from "nur" (pomegranate). The "Qanon" is their instrument, a diatonic stringed zither used at least since the tenth century around the Middle East and Central Asia. You can learn more about the Ensemble on our Festival blog: https://festival.si.edu/blog/nur-qanon-ensemble | Smithsonian Folklife
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The Northwest Folklife Festival begins today until Monday at Seattle Center
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Music, art and culture come together at Northwest Folklife festival
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DinéTah Navajo Dancers at Folklife Festival - Video by National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian | PowWows.com
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Folklife Festival draws big crowds as Seattle visitors near pre-pandemic numbers
May 24, 2025
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“Our stories must evolve. Our stories must change.” At the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Cherokee storyteller Robert Lewis took this sage advice to add a pop-culture twist to a tale about Rabbit, the troublemaker, and the importance of thinking for ourselves. Watch all the Festival’s storytellers perform in this roundtable session: https://s.si.edu/49amW7Z #SmithsonianNAHM #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth | Smithsonian Folklife
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From anywhere on the National Mall, you could probably hear these two powerful Armenian instruments during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Watch Grigor and Grigor introduce the zurna woodwind and kopal duhole bass drum. | Smithsonian Folklife
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