In 1975, Alan Lazar compiled the anthology for Folkways Records. In the last year, Smithsonian Folkways staff found and ...

The Smithsonian Folklife Marketplace returns to the National Mall Tuesday, June 16, reopening inside the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building as part of the Smithsonian’ ...

The acclaimed historian and head of the Institution argues that the semiquincentennial presents the perfect opportunity for ...

Wayne "Blue" Burns and his band will be performing a free public show at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest ...

Visitors to the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will experience the cultural landscape of the Ozarks region of the U.S. with the program “The Ozarks: Faces and Facets of a Region.” The festival ...

For many local families, Northwest Folklife’s annual festival at Seattle Center is the free music festival that kicks off the summer season. Beyond the musical performances, Folklife works to ...

On the third floor of a high school just outside D.C., a box the size of a small closet is draped in construction paper. It’s secured by a padlock. Entry requires a particular code: The year, as one ...

This summer, the first-ever Arkansas Folklife Festival will take place from June 26–28 at Riverfront Park in North Little Rock.

Each year, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival brings performers, storytellers, artists, and chefs from around the world to the National Mall, filling its grassy expanse with a massive ensemble of ...

Seattle’s Northwest Folklife Festival, famous for being free and welcoming to all comers, ought to do something out of character: Folklife should switch from a completely open Seattle Center campus to ...

In the continuing battle between Mall preservationists and those who most want to preserve its role as the central gathering place of American democracy, call this one a draw. Or, perhaps, a win-win.

Vermont Folklife, a nonprofit that documents Vermont’s culture and history primarily through audio recordings, plans to sell the Middlebury building that has served as its headquarters since 2006.