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Archive: July 2018 (2 Posts)

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Come to an Irish Session on July 28

Posted by: Stephen Winick

This summer, the American Folklife Center is hosting a series of informal jams to celebrate our living folk traditions, and to bring to life the collections from our vast ethnographic archive.  The idea grew out of the jam we held to honor our founding director, Alan Jabbour (see a video here), and the series started …

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Lou Curtiss, San Diego Folk Promoter 1939 – 2018

Posted by: Stephen Winick

The American Folklife Center is sad to pass on the news that San Diego folk arts promoter Louis F. Curtiss has died. He passed away at home on July 8. Curtiss was a founder of the San Diego Folk Festival, the owner of Folk Arts Rare Records, and a longtime festival and concert promoter and …